Over at my comics blog, I did a 10 for 10 post about comics. You should really check it out.
The focus here is on American mainstream comics. I have no apologies for that 
These are in no order. They are, however, presented with plenty of love for a decade chock full of good comics.
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Sleeper
Comprising Sleeper: Season One and Sleeper: Season Two, this series went way too far under the radar. It was clearly one of the best superhero efforts of the decade, although at the end of the day it was more cloak and dagger than capes and cowls. Thankfully both Phillips and Brubaker went on to become fancy, big-selling stars for Marvel after finishing up this classic. I just wish a few more people had been able to check out Sleeper when it was running. It was tough talking into a vacuum.
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Criminal
Criminal took the Noir aspects of Sleeper, jettisoned the superhero aspects and distilled a pure drauft of crime drama. I have an affinity for their source material and love these two guys as individual talents so I was basically made to love this book.
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