There's no reason why you would want to answer my or anyone else's questions about your list but a few entries, I thought, were interesting.
* Akira, starts great then goes pear shaped?
* L'Autoroute du soleil. I can see the interest from a critical angle, BDmeets manga in talented hands. Feels a little superficial though, even in comparison with what little translated stuff we have from him, like Road To America?
Otherwise I was glad to see Nausicaa and King Cat make it in there and L'Ascension pleasingly high.
Tom Spurgeon Responds: Hi, Andi. Both of those books are of a handful of works on the list, including Krazy Kat, I think, and the Fantastic Four run, that are there less because of their more standard literary values and more because they have a certain quality to them that can't be duplicated elsewhere or in other media. The unfortunate thing is I'm not yet a good enough critic to put into words what I mean by that feeling, and I could be totally full of crap. I'm afraid that's not a very good answer, is it?
