* Sean Edgar talks to Cameron Stewart, who may be doing with Batgirl what Mark Waid did with Flash two decades: transform a significant areas of the mainstream landscape from a well regarded title solidly with reach beyond its pure sales performance. This close to an Image Expo where you subsequently read a lot of people define the range of comics as being mainstream to high-end genre work, I'm grateful for the qualifier mainstream here, and don't think there's an implied criticism at all in using that term in that way.
* I don't think in terms of OEL manga; I'm from the "it's all comics just different traditions" camp. Similarly, it would be weird for me to think OEF to denote work from an Italian or OEBD to denote comics that owe a lot to the way French-language comics have approached things. I might be wrong, but there it is. There sure are a lot of fun comics on this list, though; I can imagine this being a list of comics about which young me would be over the freaking moon if my life were time shifted thirty years into the future. I'm a fan of a majority of these titles as is.
* J. Caleb Mozzocco on 
