Best Fantasy comics?

[Mistwell]

Thieves and Kings: http://www.glasswings.com.au/comics/t+k/
Castle Waiting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Waiting
Bone: http://www.boneville.com/
Leave it to Chance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_to_Chance
Cerebus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebus
Tellos: http://www.gottawiz.com/Comics/Image/Tellos/Tellos.htm
Fables: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fables_(comic)

 

[Voadam]

I used to have subscriptions to marvel's conan comics back in the early 90s and really enjoyed them.

The Books of Magic.

The Sandman series.

Usagi Yojimbo.

Lone Wolf and Cub borders on the edge of fantasy but is almost straight samurai.

Bone, Elfquest, Cerebus, Tellos, and Castle Waiting I found to be eh.

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

I always liked Dire Destiny a lot.

 

[ShadowDenizen]

Where to start?

Well, here:
(Some of these are mentioned before, others not. Some are completed, others are ongoing.)

1) Fables: One of my current favroite ongoing titles.
2) A Distant Soil. (http://www.adistantsoil.com/)
3) Bone (www.boneville.com)
4) Thieves and Kings (www.iboxpublishing.com)
5) Sandman
6) Mage: The Hero Discovered
7) Mage: The Hero Defined
8) Tellos
9) Preacher
10) Wandering Star (http://www.teriwood.com/wanderingstar/WS2.html)- First 4 issues available free.
11) Castle Waiting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Waiting)
12) Y: The Last Man
13) Pakkins Land (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakkins_Land): In the Narnia vein, there's quite a few "religious" overtones.
14) Fray: The sucessor to Buffy (available in TPB.)

THat OK for a start? (If you DO pick up any of these, I'd be interested in getting your take on them!!)


And, also worth mentioning, though not STRICTLY fantasy/sci-fi:
1) Invincible (Super-Hero)
2) Walking Dead (ZOmbie/Horror)
3) Rising Stars (Super-Hero.) It's similar to the TV show "heroes", but done YEARS before.

[ETA: WOw! Mistwell and I apparently have REALLY similar taste in comics!!]

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Castle Waiting, (Pini-only) Elfquest, Artesia, Mage, Sandman, the original Marvel Red Sonja series

 

[Klaus]

A lot of Crossgen's line was really good fantasy:
- Scion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scion_(comics)
- Sojourn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourn_(comics)
- Meridian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_(comics)
- Mystic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystic_(comics)#Mystic_.28CrossGen_Comics.29
- Way of the Rat: http://www.lib.chattanooga.gov/bib/bibImages/way_of_the_rat.jpg
- The Silken Ghost: http://www.backissuecomics.co.uk/store/images/CrossGen/CG172-I-1.jpg
- Brath: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brath_(comics)
- The Path: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Path_(comics)
- Ruse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruse_(comics)

 

[stevelabny]

MOUSE GUARD.

http://www.mouseguard.net/

MOUSES!!!!! WITH SWORDS!!!!!

 

[Silver Moon]

For Sword and Sorcery my favorite was DC's Warlord, especially the first 70 issues by Mike Grell.

Another one of mine that only ran six issues (a miniseries and two annuals) was Sword of the Atom, which took a familiar superhero and put him in a whole new setting. The art by Gil Kane was terrific. I believe these have been collected into a graphic novel.

Another favorite of mine was Empire Lanes which was a short-lived independent comic from the mid-to-late 1980's about a group of D&D-type characters who find themselves transported to 20th century Chicago. I think it only ran around six or seven issues. Empire Lanes was the name of the bowling alley that they made their headquarters.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

devil's due publishing is doing some really good adaptations of salvatore's drizzt series, and wies and hickman's dragonlance series.

I didn't care much for the Dark Elf trilogy (the adaptation and artwork in the first issue kept me from picking up any more), nor the Dragonlance one (couldn't stand the artwork, so didn't pick it up), but I will say that their Legend of Huma was excellent. I couldn't stand the novelization of Huma (one of the worst Dragonlance books, IMO), but the adaptation was incredible and made me really enjoy the story.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

A lot of Crossgen's line was really good fantasy:

Can't believe I forgot about so many of these.

- Sojourn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourn_(comics)

The artwork was mostly very good (even if Greg Land does lightbox so much of his artwork), and the story was okay. Better some times than others (I think Marz' work was the best on the title).

- Brath: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brath_(comics)

This was a really good title. Great story, great artwork. Sadly (due to Crossgen's misfortunes) ended prematurely mid storyline.

- Ruse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruse_(comics)

The Mark Waid issues were the best; the title kind of petered off after he left. Excellent story- Sherlock Holmes with a bit of fantasy thrown in. Great stuff.

I remembered one that I can't believe I forgot to mention. Busiek and Pacheco's Arrowsmith.