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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Taren Seeker" data-source="post: 1217338" data-attributes="member: 615">Sorry if this is somewhat OT, but if you're looking for good stuff to read...I also stopped collecting years ago, but I've been going through my old collection and rereading lately. Stuff that stood out for me:Walt Simonson run of Thor, 337-383. This defined Thor to me and many others. It suffered a bit when Walt stopped drawing, but still had a lot of gems.Planetary...I only have the first 11 issues, but man o man is it special.Tom Strong: Only have 1-3 but there is a sense of wonder in those books.Warren Ellis' run of Stormwatch #37-50. Tom Raney art. The second SW series, while good, just can't top this. Ellis & Raney took a much-maligned generic team book and built it into a gritty, thrilling and sometimes horrific run that laid the foundation for...The Authority 1-12: Mark Millar's run (past 12) just didn't click with me. Ellis' first 12 are cinematic storytelling at it's best.Captain America # 444-454: Mark Waid and Ron Garney's 1st, greatest run. Cap never looked or sounded better. Turning the book over to Rob Leifeld for the Heroes Reborn crap may have been one of the biggest tragedies in comics. Even when Waid and Garney came back the energy just wasn't there, and replacing Garney with Kubert killed it. Waid himself has commented that he never should have gone back.Wildcats by Alan Moore and Travis Charest: Great Storytelling, beautiful art and can probably buy them for a dollar each. James Robinson did a short run before Moore that is also worth reading. IIRC look for #14 to around 28. The end of the run ended weakly but that was due to interference from this huge Wildstorm "Fire From Heaven" crossover project.Preacher: Just grab Trades of this stuff, esp up to the teens since it would probably cost an arm and a leg to get the issues. Not for kids or those easily offended.Everybody knows about Astro City already <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />And finally, if you can dig it out of a bargain bin somewhere...WildStorm Spotlight # 1: Majestic by Alan Moore and Carlos D'Anda(sp). It's the best "End of the Universe" type story I've seen.Like I said, just a few works that popped out at me. A number of those can probably be found for pretty cheap in bargain bins...get hunting! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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