Enough about what we think are the best comics of 2010...what do the comic creators think? MTV Geek asked some of the hottest comic book writers and artists out there for their top three picks of 2010!

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2010 has been a banner year for role-playing games and accessories -- here's 10 of the best!

#10 - Legend of the 5 Rings 4th Edition

Fifteen years after the first edition was published, AEG has released a brand new remake with this 4th Edition. In the Emerald Empire of Rokugan, characters will be challenged to play a balanced game, mixing honor and service in with the clash of swords. A beautiful project filled with great source material, AEG has done right by fans of the franchise.

#9 - Deathwatch

Space Marines, the most war-hardened soldiers of the Warhammer 40k universe, finally get their role-playing game turn in this release form Fantasy Flight Games. While narrow in scope (the focus here is Read more...

Tags Adventure Burner, Apocalypse World, D&D Dark Sun, D&D Essentials, Deathwatch, Dungeons and Dragons, Freemarket, Gamma World, Legend of the 5 Rings, Pathfinder Player’s Guide, The Dresden Files RPG

2010 has been a watershed year for comics delivered electronically -- including the birth of the iPad, which has the potential to be a game-changer in the comic book industry. But even with the attention this year paid to digital content for mobile and tablet devices, we shouldn't forget the wealth of entertaining new webcomics out there by independent creators. So without further ado, here is our picks for the best webcomics and digital comics for 2010.

#10: Weird Fishes

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Tags Adam Atherton, Axe Cop, Cameron Stewart, Chris Haley, Curt Franklin, DC Comics, Ethan Nicolle, Freakangels, I Rule The Night, Jamaica Dyer, Jonathan Rosenburg, Let's Be Friends Again, Lily Of The Valley, Matthew Petz, Paul Duffield, PVP, Scenes From The Multiverse, Scott Kurtz, Sin Titulo, War of the Woods, Warren Ellis, Weird Fishes, Zuda

Oh, I know you "wait for the trade" types! Nothing gets you more jazzed on new comic Wednesdays than the latest trade paperbacks and gorgeous hardcover collected editions. Well, here's our picks for the best collected editions of 2010!

#10 The Marvel

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The comic book cover is a thing of beauty. An image so stirring, so eye-catching, so attention-grabbing, that the best can make you snatch up a title from the shelf, even if you've never heard of the series behind the glorious image. The comic book cover can encapsulate an entire story, the characters' motivations, the cultural zeitgeist or they can just be a lot of fun. These are the cover artists who we think fully embraced and pushed the artform into new and exciting territories in 2010.

#10 Simon Bisley

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2010 provided us with a diverse and fascinating array of great graphic novels to choose from. A PI with a brain tumor, a person caught between two worlds, a godlike psychopath, Scott Pilgrim, a brave museum curator, and a Dapper Man are among the protagonists on MTV Geek's list of the top graphic novels of the year.

#10: Revolver

Publisher: Vertigo
Writer: Matt Kindt
Artist: Matt Kindt

This impactful narrative of a life caught between two realities -- one of order, the other chaos -- is a stellar follow-up to Kindt's hit "Super Spy."

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Tags A God Somewhere, Archaia Press, Charles Burns, Darwyn Cooke, Drawn and Quarterly, IDW, Matt Kindt, Oni Press, Pantheon, Return of the Dapper Men, Revolver, Richard Stark's Parker Book 2: The Outfit, Scott Pilgrim, Stuart Immonen, Syndrome, Tumor, Vertigo, X'ed Out

There were so many awesome choices this year for "Best Comics" of 2010 that whittling them down to just ten was a Herculean task. If there was one outstanding feature of this year's comics, it was: we just had so much fun reading and discovering them!

#10: Amazing Spider-Man

Publisher: Marvel Comics

It's not easy putting out an entertaining multi-layered story with a large ensemble cast multiple times a month -- but the crew at "Amazing Spider-Man" managed to do the job! Kudos to editor Steve Wacker and his stable of some of the biggest talents in the business -- including Dan Slott, Fred Van Lente, Marc Guggenheim, Mike McKone, Paolo Rivera, Mark Waid, and Joe Quesada -- for producing a consistently enjoyable, fresh, and at times quite daring take on everybody's fave Webhead!

#9: American Vampire

Publisher: Vertigo Comics

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Welcome to MTV Geek's picks for the best board games of 2010!

#10 - Alien Frontiers
The biggest surprise of the year, with what started as a fundraising project on Kickstarter.com, Alien Frontiers turned out to be a gem of a game. Similarly to other board games in our top 10, this game mixes area control with a worker placement mechanic. Think of it like this: where you move determines what actions you perform on that turn, but if you control a certain area, other players can’t perform that space’s associated action. Read more...

Tags 7 Wonders, Alien Frontiers, Civilization, Dominant Species, Fresco, Runewars

2010 has been a banner year for toys. Thanks to games, movies, comics, and all-around nostalgia; toy companies have given their all to release fantastic pieces of plastic greatness. We, here at MTV Geek, have compiled a list of 10 toys that truly outshone their competition this year.

10. Glyos RIG (Onell Design)

Onell Design has hit onto something amazing with their Glyos series of customizable figures. This year, Onell released a new component to the line with the addition of the RIG. It’s very much in the vein of popular designer-vinyl toys, yet is so much more. With the simple positioning of the arms, you can change the RIG from a mech-like fighting machine into a space-worthy dogfighter. The imagination-inducing factor is what really helps set the RIG apart from other toys on the market, and what helps push it onto this list. The first release of the RIG sold out ridiculously fast; but be on the lookout for more of these wonderfully toys to be released in various colors and paint schemes in the future. Read more...

Tags AT-AT, Darkseid, Glyos Rig, Hasbro, Masters of the Universe, Mattel, Square Enix, Star Wars, Toy Story, War Machine