What are your favorite comics of all-time?

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Hey, I heard Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller are working on a Sin City movie. I'm too lazy right now to find a link, but it was all over Ain't It Cool News a week ago or so.

As for me, I've never had as much fun reading ANYTHING as I did reading Preacher. It was so good that I stopped reading comics after its run ended a couple years ago (well, except for KoDT of course). I wanted to go out on top.

 

[VorpalBunny]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Sin City.

Sin City is cool and got me thinking about other Frank Miller stuff. I can't believe his run on Daredevil hasn't gotten more mentions or his Give Me Liberty hasn't been mentioned at all (I thought GML was way better than Sin City...)

 

[Hand of Evil]

There are a number of great ones out there, at least period pieces that kicked butt.

Some I enjoyed:
Spiderman vs Mobius the Vampire (think that was his name)
Dr. Strange
Nighthawk
Nick Fury (the WW2 stuff and SHIELD)
Dracula by Marvel
Werewolf by Night

 

[AFGNCAAP]

For me....

G.I. Joe (1st run from Marvel): A lot of the earlier stuff--it lost its appeal with the neon-colored uniform characters from the toy line, plus stuff like Battle Force 2000.

The Mighty Thor: The Simonson stuff, plus a bit of the more recent stuff as well. Liked Eric Masterson as Thor/Thunderstrike. However, until the restart of the line w/ the Jake Olsen Thor, there wasn't much appeal after Thunderstrike went to his own title (hated the Thor/New Gods thing, & a lot of other plot threads until the "reboot").

Thunderstrike:Really liked the character. Irritated me to no end when he was killed off. Kinda glad to see him come back (in a roundabout way) in Spider-Girl.

G.I Joe (current run from Devil's Due): Pretty cool so far. Sticks with the old Marvel-line continuity, though drops in some elements from the cartoon. Also like the sort of "Ultimate G.I. Joe" idea in the new Cobra Reborn/G.I. Joe Reborn line that just came out.

Thunderbolts: For me, the post-Baron Zemo period was quite enjoyable. Really liked the reintroduction of many lower-tier characters (as in the newer version of the Masters of Evil). Kinda liked the Redeemers, too, & I wish many of the characters weren't killed off.

JSA (current): For the most part, make mine Marvel, but I gotta tell ya, I really liked this DC line, esp. the 1st couple of years for it.

 

[Particle_Man]

Sandman will be my personal favourite. And 1602 is my favourite marvel comic (and it is ending...sob, sniffle).

Astro City, Starman, Usagi Yojimbo, Promethea (the Painted Doll is my personal Jesus), League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (NOT the movie), all good.

Some others: Tomorrow Stories #2 has a story of the Greyshirt called "How Things Work Out" (Writer: Alan Moore) which is one of the best stories to show what one can do with comics. It showed a story line based in 4 time eras, matched up with a hotel, with each floor showing a different era, yet each page showed all 4 floors of the hotel with a thematic connection to the other panels on that page (with different time eras!). It blew me away. I show friends that one when I want to show them what comics can do.

Strangers in Paradise. Damn good character work there.

Hmmm..for some reason I cannot edit my own thread. Anyhow, I should have said that Promethea's The Painted Doll, not The Living Doll, was, in fact, my personal Jesus.

 

[danzig138]

In no particular order:
The Watchmen
Kingdom Come
Dark Knight Returns
Squadron Supreme LS
Justice (NewU)
Starbrand (NewU)
D.P.7 (NewU)

 

[TheBadElf]

Most of mine have been mentioned already, but...

The Authority (Ellis and Millar runs)
These were great reads that IMO really expanded the perception of what super heroes can and maybe / maybe not should do, and the best "widescreen big action" comics ever.

Stormwatch (Ellis run)
The best example ever of a writer taking a painfully bad comic and making it far, far better.

Planetary
Can you tell I'm a Warren Ellis fan? Seriously, I really think that once Planetary wraps up it's going to be looked at as one of the all-time classics.

Watchmen
Dark Knight Returns
These two pretty much changed the way I looked at the world when I was in junior high. Scary, no? And they read just as well these many years later.

Strangers in Paradise
As someone mentioned, some really great character work. One of the only comics that's ever really gotten to me emotionally.

And, the ones that no one's mentioned yet...

The Elementals (until around #25 or thereabouts).
This was a "Mature Readers: book before anyone invented the label, and one of the standouts of the 1980s independant scene. It went downhill badly when creator Bill Willingham left, and degenerated into a mockery of what it had been' as I recall, the for the last few years before the franchise disappeared totally it produced a few limited series that were never completed and a disturbing number of "Sex Specials" and lingerie issues. Before its sad demise, though, it was one of the very smartest superhero books of its time.

MiraclemanEverything that can be said about this awesome series already has; I look foreward to the legal struggle over the rights being resolved someday so that people who didn't read it in the 80s can see what the fuss is all about. Trust me, it's worth it.

Almost forgot...
Supreme Power
My favorite comic going today

and its spiritual predecessor by the same author,
Rising Stars
(I still hope the last two or three issues will come out someday...)

 

[Kastil]

The Darkness and Wolverine. Great artwork and love the storylines.

 

[Silver Moon]

Kurt Busiek's Thunderbolts

If you haven't picked it up already go get a copy of issue #1 of the new Avengers/Thunderbolts miniseries. Kurt Busiek's work on both titles has never been better.

 

[Iron_Chef]

Conan: The Legend, by Kurt Busiek and Cary Nord, published by Dark Horse. This is shaping up to be the definitive Conan comic of all time.

Other favorites:
Amazing Spider-Man (Micheline/McFarlane run)
Captain America (vs. Baron Blood the Nazi Vampire in two issues)
Conan The Barbarian
Conan The King
Daredevil (Frank Miller run)
Dark Knight Returns
Longshot (Arthur Adams mini-series)
Iron Man ("Armor Wars" & the one where Stark gets shot by ex-girlfriend)
Master of Kung-fu (three issue saga vs. Pavane, Razorfist...)
Micronauts (particularly Michael Golden's art in #1-12)
Moon Knight (vs. Morpheus)
Rocket Racoon (mini-series)
Swamp Thing (Bernie Wrightson original 1970s run)
Uncanny X-Men (Claremont run)
Weird War Tales (DC)

B&W COMIC MAGAZINES!
Savage Sword of Conan (B&W Marvel mag)

All the old Eerie Publications: Weird, Witches' Tales, Tales of Voodoo, Horror Tales, Terror Tales, Weird Vampire Tales...

All the old Warren's: Creepy, Eerie (pre-serial heroes), Vampirella...

1950s comics!
All the old E.C. Comics: Tales From The Crypt, Haunt of Fear, Vault of Horror, Shock Suspenstories, Weird Science...