Top Ten favorites of 2011- part one

Most of the comics I buy now days are in the form of collected editions, mostly hardcovers. So here's my list of my favorite collected editions that I purchased in 2011.

10. Hellboy Library Edition 4

I love the Hellboy character and this series of Library Edition hardcovers is excellent.  This collection reprints Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Hellboy: The Crooked Man.   I liked it better in the earlier volumes when Mignola was doing the art himself, it still looks great and is a lot of fun to read.

9. Avengers Prime

I'm not a big fan of Brian Michael Bendis' Avengers work over the last ten years. In fact, I think most of his stuff sucks. But this collection of the five part limited series by Bendis and the fantastic Alan Davis really hits it out of the park.  It's nice to read an avengers story without the overexposed Spider-Man and Wolverine.

8.  B.P.R.D: Plague of Frogs Vol. 2 (hardcover)

Prior to this year, I had never read BPRD before, thinking it probably wasn't going to be as good as Hellboy. Turns out, I was wrong.  This is a nice thick book reprinting BPRD: The Dead, BPRD: The Black Flame, and BPRD: War on Frogs.

7.  B.P.R.D: Plague of Frogs Vol. 1 (hardcover)

Both Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 came out in 2011 and I loved them both, almost equally.  This book contains BPRD stories Hollow Earth, Soul of Venice, and Plague of Frogs.