All the world loves a list: Top 10s, Top 5s, Top 50s, it doesn't really matter how you number them. In fact, for magazines they are go-to sales boosters, and for web periodicals they are traffic drivers. But sometimes lists go wrong. Witness, for example, Kirstin Butler's "Comic Books as Journalism: 10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction" for The Atlantic . The first red flag comes when you try to figure out what qualifies Butler to rank such a list. Her bio states that she "is writing an adaptation of Gogol for the Google era called Dead SULs ." While her project may be very good, there is nothing about it that suggests she is any way an expert in, or even particularly knowledgeable of, comics journalism. Then there is the list itself. 1. The Beats by Harvey Pekar/various 2. Edible Secrets by Michael Hoerger / Mia Paltrow / Nate Powell 3. A.D.: New Orleans After The Deluge by Josh Neufeld 4. The 14th Dalai Lama by Tetsu Saiwai 5. The Stuff