Time Magazine has its top ten list of “everything” out this week, from “awkward moments” to “scientific discoveries.” Yet they’re missing something that they included last year: graphic novels.

Wherever you fall on the argument Lucas posed below, you wouldn’t be reading this blog if you didn’t agree with me that comics and graphic novels are as valid an art and literary form as any other. And this was a big year for comics in the mainstream, with The Dark Knight blowing other films out of the water on both money and quality and even earning a Golden Globe nomination and Oscar buzz, not to mention those other comic movies (Iron Man, Hellboy 2, The Hulk, The Spirit, Wanted…and I might be missing some). And of course the Watchmen buzz is so huge that it’s inspired a whole new round of people to buy the graphic novel.

We all know there were excellent books this year, and since Time did a top ten graphic novels in 2007, I want to know, what gives? It sure can’t be running out of subject matter, or space…

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