• 10. Mohawked Space Man Suplexes an Entire Factory

  

  Could any scene represent comics better than this, where a man with an electric blue mohawk named OMAC rips out the heart of a factory and smashes it down to the ground while everyone runs around screaming? That's the kind of lunacy you won't be seeing in any movies any time soon, folks.

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• 10. Young Liars

  

  Young Liars is perhaps the most accessible work by comics' own Quentin Tarantino, David Lapham. Essentially the story of a group of twentysomethings who are various degrees of fucked up, Young Liars may be violent and vulgar and highly sexual, but it's also a fun romp, full of bold, bright colors and '60s inspired art, as well as excellent musical choices and fashion. Think of it as True Romance in comic form, except with crazed detectives, a Memento-like female heroine and even more sex.

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• 10. Smart Hulk

  

  While most of the characters on this got changed cosmetically, Hulk's makeover came in the form of an IQ upgrade. Everyone knows Hulk as a big dumb green guy who likes to smash things and has a poor grasping of grammar, but during the late '80s and early '90s, he went through some severe personality shifts. At one point Hulk even started dressing like a Rat Pack member and called himself Mr. Fix-It. But the most severe change came when Hulk got rid of the bowl cut in favor of a comb over, started wearing a lot of blank tank tops, and packed an intelligence equal to his bench pressing skills.

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• 10. GD Gate

  

  In a nutshell, the owner of a comic shop in North Carolina took offense to a single panel of Action Comics #1 where Superman says "gd." The owner took this to be an instance of Superman taking the Lord's name in vain and proposed a boycott of Action and writer Grant Morrison. Weirdly, the owner of the shop went out of his way to say he was okay with the uber-offensive Garth Ennis titles Crossed and Preacher, which prompted Reddit's comicbooks subreddit to create the image seen above, which compares a page of Crossed to a page of Action. However, all was cleared up when Grant Morrison took to DC's official blog to say that the "gd" was in fact a sound effect and by no means religious in any way, shape or form, thus ending what will hopefully be the dumbest controversy to happen in comics this year.

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