CCW 2.14: The Top Graphic Novels of 2008...OH YES!

Elliott & Jose review the top 10 selling graphic novels and trade paperbacks of 2008, and love it!

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[masonTganes]

Amazing how 3 of those books are OVER 20 yrs old. Thats a testement to how good they are......naturally the movies coming out had ALOT to do with it but they are truly classic books.

SICKENING how the most generic CRAP gets randomly collected into overpriced hardcovers these days. TOTALY SICKENING.

[comicculturewarrior]

Wow Mason, you're wound up today, eh?

Calm down my friend, you're gonna give yourself a heart attack. ;-)

Elliott

[comicculturewarrior]

Of course there were some fine Marvel trades in the top 25, but we found it peculiar that there were none in the top 10, considering that Marvel had 3 'events' in the last 2 years and BMB and Jeph Loeb as their top selling names.

As to the your comment on the singles, the two greatest sins you can commit are to throw away perfectly good food and bag and board a perfectly good comic so its never read again.

Thanks for the comments locusmortis!

Elliott

[watchwrestling]

I too am guilty of the bagging, boarding, and forgetting ritual. Does this affliction affect most of us serious comic book collecting types or am I in the minority?

[comicculturewarrior]

HOW. DARE. YOU!

Just kidding.

I think most of us have been afflicted with the bag-n-board mentality. I stopped doing it myself because it got too darn expensive to buy all those boards, bags and let's not forget the boxes.

Now I read 'em, throw em in a stack, then loan 'em out if I think someone will like them.

I forgive you watchwrestling. ;-)

Elliott

[3Reviews]

To answer your question about why good books are in top GNs and bad ones are in single issues, probably because if you're spending money on a trade you either have great recommendations or read it at a library already. With single issues, you only have hype to go off of.

[BlackPhoenix06]

Do you guys think Marvels lesser titles may suffer as a result of the price increase since most people will probably drop books in order to afford the $4 books?

[masonTganes]

oh uh incase anyone is wondeing- all my negative shouting comments are all with a bit of tounge n cheek.

No hate here- just frustration with the direction of things.

[Pinkhamsterino]

I'm looking forward to CCW on "Final Crisis." Fans are dissecting the obscure references to DC canon and quantum physics it contains, but to me none of its subtexts matter because the storytelling is fundamentally broken. What is Superman firing his heat vision at in the final pages? The ground? Bad guys? Darkseid's invisible fortress that he finds and returns from in-between panels? This isn't a Godard movie, it's a superhero comic. By the way, thanks for the shout out, Elliott!

[locusmortis]

Hey, this is almost a happy episode, well done! ;)

Trades are books that you want to read and re-read whereas single issues tend to get stored away and not read again (what a waste actually)

There were some good Marvel hardcovers like Brubakers Cap omnibus, World war hulk, Annihilation Conquest.

Trades also sell to bookstores and I never see marvel stuff in my local bookstores but lots of Batman, vertigo and stuff like walking dead because they appeal to non "zombies" more