{"id":666,"date":"2008-12-16T18:07:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T18:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/12\/16\/that-was-the-year-that-was-part-one\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:32","slug":"that-was-the-year-that-was-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/12\/16\/that-was-the-year-that-was-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"That Was The Year That Was. Part One."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/span><\/p>\n<table width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"genmed\"><b>Quote:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"quote\">It&#8217;s that time of year again &#8212; the existential suspense redolent in the air over whether your uncle will get blindly drunk at Christmas again, whether the country will survive until January 20th, whether you&#8217;ll get lucky on New Year&#8217;s Eve. The usual swirl of late December concerns. And in that swirl are the year-end &quot;ten best&quot; lists as well, compiled by movie, music, book and other critics. The erudite Mr. Klaw and Mark London Williams thought it might behoove them to compile a similar top-tenny sort of rundown for graphic novels and comics and split it into two parts. Here are numbers 10\u20136 of the list.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/columns\/graphica286.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">That Was The Year That Was. Part One.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/images\/graphica\/battlefield150.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/images\/graphica\/creepyarchive150.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/images\/graphica\/zotcover-big150.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/images\/graphica\/horror.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/images\/graphica\/bcc_cover150.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/images\/graphica\/rabbi_harvey_rides_again_cover150.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/images\/graphica\/kirby150.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/images\/graphica\/allstar-superman150.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/images\/graphica\/alc_hc_solicit150.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our final five selections will be announced in the January 1 column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote: It&#8217;s that time of year again &#8212; the existential suspense redolent in the air over whether your uncle will get blindly drunk at Christmas again, whether the country will survive until January 20th, whether you&#8217;ll get lucky on New &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/12\/16\/that-was-the-year-that-was-part-one\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/12\/16\/that-was-the-year-that-was-part-one\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"That Was The Year That Was. 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