Surely you can not overlook Elephantmen anyway you look at it.

Another favourite from the last few years was Nightworld , by Adam McGovern and Paolo Leandri, a comic I first learned about here at Classic Comics, I think on the Community board.



Wish McGovern and Leandri would come out with something new, whether a sequel to Nightworld or an altogether new series!

Haven't had the chance to read Saga, but I know the critics love it.

As for best new series from the past 10 years, my favorites are "Billy Batson & the Magic of SHAZAM!" from DC Comics and Marvel's Thor: The Mighty Avenger (from Roger Langridge and Chris Samnee).

I'll second The Wrong Earth and add Titan Comics Fighting American.


 


I hadn't realized until I read the original Simon and Kirby series earlier this year that Fighting American was far from being a Captain America clone though it's entirely possible that's how he was envisioned.  See, Captain America was created to go after the very real threat of Nazi Germany whereas Fighting American was designed to go after the dangers of 1950's communism.  However, when Simon and Kirby recognized that there was no real communist threat in America, they changed direction with The Fighting American title.  Recognizing how silly it was to create a hero to go after a "ripped from the headlines" threat which didn't even exist, they produced a comic full of patriotic zeal and outlandish, over the top villains for their new super hero to face.  It's this detail which makes the current series great for me.  All too often, comics will revive a Golden/Silver Age character either to mock them or grim and gritty them up for the 90's.  Titan however, does neither.  The characters retain their original feel for once and while the title is certainly humorous, it's because it's being faithful to the source material.  There's a certain nobility to the characters which remains sacred and untainted even as the story itself goes in some pretty bizarre directions.


And while it's a reprint title collecting horror tales from the 1950's, how can I not love Haunted Horror?


 

Remembered another one which comes in just under the wire.

Green Hornet: Year One (2010) by Matt Wagner.

Green Hornet is one of those characters who, like The Shadow, I've long wanted to get into, but could never find a comic which did anything for me.  There's nothing wrong with the character - the city's champion pretending to be Public Enemy Number One as his alter ego offers a reward to capture his other self is inspired - and worked great in the two serials from the 40's and the Van Williams series - but everything I'd read so far just seemed so perfunctory.  Here however, Wagner nails the feel of the era, the voice of the characters, and embraces the mythology to such a degree that his fast paced storyline feels as though he's racing through a china shop in a tank without ever coming close to breaking anything.  It's big, it's fast, but it takes pains to attend to every little detail so that you understand why The Green Hornet and Kato were designed the way they were.  I think Wagner himself expressed surprise that Britt Reid never really had much of an origin and perhaps his intention to define those details rather than re-define them is what makes this series read so well - he isn't tossing out random elements to insert his own untested ideas, but working like a detective who's piecing together missing pieces based on the information he has at hand.  Wagner's a very hit or miss author for me - sometimes even with regards to a singular project - but here he nails it beautifully.  So far, the best Green Hornet comic I've ever read.