funnybook of the month: August 2011

In an attempt to nail down last year's best funnybook, I will whittle down the contenders by month. Why? Because the year has ended and a year-end list is what people do.

The Winner: Detective Comics #881

What I said then: "This was the perfect team doing a near-perfect story on the perfect title."



Why it's still awesome now: Dick Grayson being bigger than Gotham City and what it can do to you. This was the culmination of that theme, and a totally perfect story to tell it, as it emphasized the things that are important to Dick Grayson that make him better than the evil of a city. Jock and Snyder worked so hard to make Gotham a character that you forget there was an actual villain to this story. It's really an incredible thing and that team hasn't been duplicated on any bat-title in the new DCU (all respect to Capullo, who just can't set a mood like Jock).

Was it close? Nothing really matched this thematically or form a storytelling standpoint.