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What are your favorite comics of all-time?
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Welverin
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Bone, it's so good the owner of the store I go to doesn't want the last three issues to come out because then it would be over and he would have no new issues to look forward to. Much to my displeasure he's getting his wish.
I'll leave it there for all time favorites, though Spider-man deserves mention as my favorite comic character.
I'll leave it there for all time favorites, though Spider-man deserves mention as my favorite comic character.
Chain Lightning
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For me, it was these:
-Batman :The Dark Knight Returns
-Batman Year One
-The Watchmen
-G.I.Joe (mainly issues 20 to about 60 something / + the 'Special Missions' and Yearbook #2 is the BEST)
-Punisher War Journal ( #1-8 or so)
-Hellboy
-Blade of the Immortal
-Kingdom Come
-Appleseed (Book 1-3 mostly)
I know there's some that I forgot, but those are the ones I can think of at the moment......
-Batman :The Dark Knight Returns
-Batman Year One
-The Watchmen
-G.I.Joe (mainly issues 20 to about 60 something / + the 'Special Missions' and Yearbook #2 is the BEST)
-Punisher War Journal ( #1-8 or so)
-Hellboy
-Blade of the Immortal
-Kingdom Come
-Appleseed (Book 1-3 mostly)
I know there's some that I forgot, but those are the ones I can think of at the moment......
Alzrius
The EN World kitten
If we're talking series, then Fred Perry's Gold Digger. It's amazing how this guy can take dangling little plot threads and bring them back around in ways that are totally unexpected. His stuff is just incredible in terms of the style, story, and fan service. For example, in the 100th issue that just came out (issue 50 of the color series), he brought back the villain from the very first issue, and in a way that was totally unforseen, but unbelieveably cool!
In terms of individual comics, the September 11 issue of Amazing Spider-Man was very powerful, though considering the subject, that's understandable.
I know there are others that have floored me, but I can't think of them at the moment.
In terms of individual comics, the September 11 issue of Amazing Spider-Man was very powerful, though considering the subject, that's understandable.
I know there are others that have floored me, but I can't think of them at the moment.
Silver Moon
Adventurer
Several of us already answered that question. I had trouble keeping my list at less than twenty. Here's a link to the "Best Comic Storylines or Ideas" thread from last November.
http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=70060
http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=70060
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WayneLigon
Adventurer
Assuming we're talking series and one-shots here...
Usagi Yojimbo ('Rabbit Bodyguard') by Stan Sakai. Miyamoto Usagi is a rabbit ronin in feudal Japan, wandering from place to place and using his sword to uphold honor. His lord was killed in a battle against Lord Hikiji, a mysterious figure of evil that wants to become Shogun, and since then Usagi has been on his own. There are some 'over arching' plot elements, and characters from previous storylines reappear from time to time, but the book as a whole is very accessable. You really could jump in at any time and not be totally confused as to what's going on. Storylines are rarely more than 2-3 issues long, with several single-issue stories throughout. Sakai has created some truly enduring and interesting characters.
Gold Digger is certainly in the top ten.
Nightwing. Best character in the DCU, hands down. Nightwing 1-50 is perhaps one of the best runs of comics ever.
Cerebus. OK, I have a love-hate relationship with Cerebus. Go get the 'phone books' up through High Society. Maybe the one for 'Church and State'; there are funny issues there, but as a whole it's not nearly as amusing or engaging. Then stop. The series just ended this past week with Issue #300, so.. soon you can get the entire thing in several hefty packages.
New Warriors. Two series both, sadly, long cancelled. Uneven in long patches, but on the whole one of the best team books I've ever read.
Runaways, so far, has become one of my new favorites. Its connections to the rest of the Marvel Universe are... kinda vague, if they even exist at all. But the premise is wonderful. You're a bunch of teenage friends (of varying degrees of freindship); your parents are all friends, so you've been together for a large chunk of your lives. Then... then you find out that your parents are all evil supervillains who control the city, the cops, everything. Some aren't even from this time or this planet.
Usagi Yojimbo ('Rabbit Bodyguard') by Stan Sakai. Miyamoto Usagi is a rabbit ronin in feudal Japan, wandering from place to place and using his sword to uphold honor. His lord was killed in a battle against Lord Hikiji, a mysterious figure of evil that wants to become Shogun, and since then Usagi has been on his own. There are some 'over arching' plot elements, and characters from previous storylines reappear from time to time, but the book as a whole is very accessable. You really could jump in at any time and not be totally confused as to what's going on. Storylines are rarely more than 2-3 issues long, with several single-issue stories throughout. Sakai has created some truly enduring and interesting characters.
Gold Digger is certainly in the top ten.
Nightwing. Best character in the DCU, hands down. Nightwing 1-50 is perhaps one of the best runs of comics ever.
Cerebus. OK, I have a love-hate relationship with Cerebus. Go get the 'phone books' up through High Society. Maybe the one for 'Church and State'; there are funny issues there, but as a whole it's not nearly as amusing or engaging. Then stop. The series just ended this past week with Issue #300, so.. soon you can get the entire thing in several hefty packages.
New Warriors. Two series both, sadly, long cancelled. Uneven in long patches, but on the whole one of the best team books I've ever read.
Runaways, so far, has become one of my new favorites. Its connections to the rest of the Marvel Universe are... kinda vague, if they even exist at all. But the premise is wonderful. You're a bunch of teenage friends (of varying degrees of freindship); your parents are all friends, so you've been together for a large chunk of your lives. Then... then you find out that your parents are all evil supervillains who control the city, the cops, everything. Some aren't even from this time or this planet.
Mog Elffoe
Explorer
Here are the comics that I either get excited to see new issues on the stands or have read over and over since their original printing:
Hellboy
Alan Moore's Swamp Thing
Ultimate Spider-Man
Supreme Power
Tom Strong
Top Ten & Smax
Kurt Busiek's Thunderbolts
Powers
Preacher
Sin City
Tales of the Bizarro World TPB (this thing twists your perceptions and thoughts better than any drug out there--It am SO-O-O bad!)
Hellboy
Alan Moore's Swamp Thing
Ultimate Spider-Man
Supreme Power
Tom Strong
Top Ten & Smax
Kurt Busiek's Thunderbolts
Powers
Preacher
Sin City
Tales of the Bizarro World TPB (this thing twists your perceptions and thoughts better than any drug out there--It am SO-O-O bad!)
John Crichton
First Post
Hmmm. It changes so much. Since I haven't regularly read comics in a few years I'll go with Planetary and the Ellis run on The Authority as my current faves.
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