Top Ten Indie Comics Ideas Since Watchmen

Last week, we discussed Alan Moore’s impression that there hadn’t been any really good ideas in mainstream comics since Watchmen, countering it with a list of ten ideas published by DC that we felt rivaled Watchmen, or at least put lie to the notion that there was nothing creative going on in comics today. This week, we wanted to take a similar look at the creator-owned side of the market.While all of these books exist very much in the mainstream of the American comics industry (you can, or could when they were published, find them in almost any comic shop), they aren’t DC or Marvel. Still, who can claim the an industry that generates Bone is intellectually bankrupt?And which ones did we miss? We went for the big, obvious ones, but it’s likely that in the rush of things we managed to ignore some of your favorites.

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