Best Comic Storlines or Ideas

[Sherlock]

Moench & Galancy did great James Bond type stuff on that book, and the Moench & Zeck run was quite good too.

Your right. It was Moench and not Englehart writing in the later MOKF that I really enjoyed.....

I really loved the look of the books too.....

 

[The Serge]

The arc in which The Joker murdered Sarah Essen-Gordon was the tale end of No Man's Land.

I'm surprised that no one mentioned Waid and Ross' Kingdom Come. Although it didn't draw the attention of Watchmen or The Dark Knight, I think as a mini-series that serves as an extended metaphor for the changes in attitudes about comic book characters, it is one of the best works out there. And the art was fantastic.

 

[danzig138]

I'm surprised that no one mentioned Waid and Ross' Kingdom Come. Although it didn't draw the attention of Watchmen or The Dark Knight, I think as a mini-series that serves as an extended metaphor for the changes in attitudes about comic book characters, it is one of the best works out there. And the art was fantastic.

Kingdom Come is wonderful. Between the comic-like shots on Smallville and the samples of KC art she's seen, my SO has actually developed an interest in comics beyond Lobo. I haven't seen any of Ross' other work, is it as good as KC?

 

[The Serge]

I haven't seen any of Ross' other work, is it as good as KC?

Yes, it is.

Check out the album-sized comics written by Paul Dini (of Batman: The Animated Series fame). There's one for Superman (Peace on Earth), The Batman (War on Crime), Wonder Woman, and Captain Marvel (don't recall their names). He also did album-sized comics for the JLA (two, one featuring their secret origins, and the other is a story told -- out of continuity -- featuring the "classic" Big Seven line up (like Barry Allen's Flash and Hal Jordan's Green Lantern).

Another excellent compilation is Ross' Marvels. Set in the Marvel Universe (obviously), it tells the origins of that universe from the perspective of a journalist. It's an excellent story I think written by Busiek...?

Finally, if you want to gush at his art, Ross has recently released a compilation of his DC art in a book called Mythology; you can also check out his site Alex Ross Art .

 

[Endur]

DC
Batman (all of them, but particularly Frank Miller and Neal Adams)
Kirby's 4th world (New Gods, Mr. Miracle, Forever People, Jimmy Olsen)
Justice League (particularly the first 200 issues)
Watchmen
The first three years of New Teen Titans by Wolfman/Perez
The Legion of Super-heroes, particulary the Great Darkness
Catwoman
Green Lantern/Green Arrow, particularly Neal Adams
Supergirl, Lois Lane, and Wonder Woman in the 1970's
Kingdom Come, the art was awesome

Marvel
Fantastic Four ... Sub-mariner and Dr. Doom
Thor, anytime Loki, Hercules, or other immortals are around
Captain America (all, but particularly Kirby and Mark Gruenwald)
Daredevil
Amazing Spiderman
The Bryne/Claremont Uncanny X-Men Run

 

[Holy Bovine]

Black Panther #1-49

Simply amazing stuff. A richness and depth of story telling and characterization that I haven't seen in comics for a long time. T'challa finally became more than the joke of a hero he was in the 70's and 80's.

 

[Teflon Billy]

• Chris Claremont's run on Uncanny Xman in the 1980's
• Astro City. The whole shooting match, but particularly the Confessions story arc.
• Watchmen
• Sandman
• Kingdom Come
• Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing
• Batman: Year One
• The whole Ultimates line of comics. Brilliant, modern, sense-making re-tellings of the clasic marvel stories. I absolutely cannot wait for next month's Ultimate Fantastic Four.

 

[GreyShadow]

Sandman
Sandman Mystery Theatre
Kingdom Come
Marvels
Walt's run on Thor & Hulk

There are more, but those stand out for me.

 

[Ghostwind]

Let's see how many comic diehards recognize this one...

The Last Galactus Story by John Byrne (it was never finished and never came out in an actual comic book).

 

[DMScott]

Chris Claremont's X-Men got me back into comics in my teens, just a great run. I picked it up right around the first "Days of Future Past"-type storyline, when Kate Pryde went back in time to take over the body of young Kitty Pryde and stop the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants from assassinating Senator Kelly.

Related to that, I also loved the first Wolverine mini-series, I believe by Claremont and Frank Miller. Wish I still had my copies, fantastic example of developing a two-dimensional character into something much more.

Sandman was of course brilliant - I don't know if there were any bad issues, but if there were I haven't got to them yet.

The Watchmen is probably the best deconstruction of comic-book supers I know of.

I also have a soft spot for the Doomsday storyline in Superman, and the initial aftermath.