The Best
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Sin City, the movie, is extremely faithful to the story (and even the composition of the frames), so I already knew what was going to happen. But, there's just something about the vagueness of Frank Miller's art that lends so much more weight to this noir piece than any film can (oh yeah, and there's no Britany Murphy in here).

Runner Up
Essential Spider-Man Vol. 7
Everyone and their mother knows Spider-Man's original girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, was killed by one of his arch-enemies, the Green Goblin back in a story arch in the mid 70's. What you may not have realized is that this "kiddie" medium goes on to depict a superhero slowly going insane as a result - no longer caring about saving people nor holding back in fights.

The Worst
Maximum Carnage
A story arch from the mid 90's that occurred right as I was starting to lose interest in the medium. I thought I'd give it a chance, but man, should I have left it in the past! Whereas this is supposed to be a dark, Dante-like epic, it is in actuality silly, stupid and unashamedly spread out too thin to sell a few more comics.

Runner Up
DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore
Alan Moore, perhaps my favorite comic writer of all time, is famous for penning such classics as "Watchmen" and "V for Vendetta" (not to mention the criminally underappreciated "1963" series). So, I was unsurprisingly stoked to check out the handful of comics he wrote for DC. This collection gathers them all ... all 10 or so of them. Disjointed and silly, the whole is less than the sum of the parts.

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