2005 - A pretty good year.

(Yes, I know it's March. It's nice to run down upcoming projects sometime other than December/January for once.)

Best project so far in 2005:
Epileptic, by David B.
I also loved DAISY KUTTER (Viper Comics) and VIMANARAMA (Vertigo)

My Top 10 most anticipated projects of 2005, in no particular order:
1. DESOLATION JONES (Wildstorm/DC) - The Warren Ellis/JH Williams continuing series begins in May. DC Comics gets at least $3.95 monthly from me for the forseeable future.
2. TRICKED (Top Shelf) - Alex Robinson's new graphic novel. Also looking to pick up the reissue of BOX OFFICE POISON with spiffy new cover design. I have all the singles, but I'm finally gonna cave.
3. EMBROIDERIES (Pantheon) - Marjane Satrapi's follow-up to PERSEPOLIS focuses on the love/sex lives of young Iranian women. Should be fascinating.
4. WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS? (Pantheon) - I love Jason. They just can't translate this stuff fast enough for me, I'm gonna have to learn Norweigan.
5. THE THREE PARADOXES (Fantagraphics) - Big OGN from Paul Hornschemeier, my favorite new writer/artist of the last few years.
6. AEIOU or ANY EASY INTIMACY (Top Shelf) - Jeffrey Brown brings us the last of the "girlfriend trilogy".
7. LOST GIRLS (Top Shelf) - Finally the series by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbe is completed and collected into a big-ass hardcover, coming next fall.
8. THE QUITTER (Vertigo) - OGN from Harvey Pekar, stories from his early life drawn by Dean Haspiel.
9. CONAN AND THE JEWELS OF GWAHLUR (Dark Horse) - P. Craig Russell draws it, I'm buying it.
10. GLIMMER (Oni Press) - Fantasy epic by Ted Naifeh, of COURTNEY CRUMRIN and the much-beloved-by-me HOW LOATHSOME.

Also looking forward to:
SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD (Oni)
SCREAM QUEEN (Ho Che Anderson) (Fantagraphics)
BLUESMAN (Absense of Ink)
GIRLS (Luna brothers) (Image)
THE FOUNTAIN (Darren Aronofsky, Kent Williams)(Vertigo)
ICE HAVEN (Daniel Clowes, collected from Eightball) (Pantheon)
"Rusty Brown" - ACME NOVELTY FACTORY (Chris Ware) (Fantagraphics)
Brownsville (NBM Publishing)
FIRST LADY (Patrick Neighly/Stephen Buell) Mad Yak Press
IRONCLAD PETAL (Lea Hernandez) (Cyberosia Publishing?)
WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME IF I WET THE BED (Liz Prince) (Top Shelf)
THE TICKING (Renee French) (Top Shelf)
MNEMOVORE (Vertigo)

Some great projects that will be continuing or completing this year:
-CONCRETE: THE HUMAN DILEMMA
-KABUKI: THE ALCHEMY
-OPTIC NERVE
-PLANETARY
-AGE OF BRONZE
-EX MACHINA
-LOVE AND ROCKETS (always.)
-FINDER (READ THIS RIGHT NOW)
-BLUE MONDAY: PAINTED MOON
-two marvel comics by creators of tv shows that i loved: ASTONISHING X-MEN and SUPREME POWER
-STRANGEHAVEN (i know this will never finish but it's still gorgeous)


So what did I forget?