ValamirCleaver
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I can't believe no one has mentioned Sin City. I can't fathom why it hasn't been optioned for a movie already.
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What are your favorite comics of all-time?
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Teflon Billy
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Chris Claremont era X-Men
Batman: the Dark Night returns
The Watchmen
Astro city
The Ultimates
Kingdom Come
Sandman
Alan Moore era Swamp Thing
Starman, the entire run of the series.
Batman: the Dark Night returns
The Watchmen
Astro city
The Ultimates
Kingdom Come
Sandman
Alan Moore era Swamp Thing
Starman, the entire run of the series.
Welverin
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Wombat said:
If it's a story told with sequential art it's a comic, what it's about isn't important (i.e. it doesn't have to have super-heroes to be a comic book).
The Serge said:
Is that the one where a villain got a hold of Bats plans for how to take the rest of the members out? If not do you know the name of it?
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Mog Elffoe
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ValamirCleaver said:
Hey! It was in my list!
Some folks here have jogged my memory a bit too. I'll have to add the following to my list:
Starman (got the whole run in a stack next to my bed just waiting to be re-read, too)
Spectre (John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake's run. Great, great stuff. I just finished re-reading the entire run)
Astro City
Man Without Fear
Conan (the new run)
Conan the Barbarian (back when John Buscema did the pencils and Ernie Chan did the inks--man, that was the stuff! I can't wait for Dark Horse to re-color and re-release these!)
The Goon
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Mog Elffoe
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Welverin said:
Tower of Babel is the one, yeah. Rha's Al Ghul gets ahold of Batman's plans for doing in the JLA. Good stuff.
Some favorite individual issues:
"The Kid Who Collected Spider-Man," from The Amazing Spider-Man.
"Silent Interlude" from G. I. Joe.
The issue of The Punisher when a seriously-wounded Frank Castle collapses in the woods just outside Joan the mouse's cottage, and he has to fight off the enemies who track him there with what he can scrounge.
The first issue of Astro City, featuring a day in the life of the Samaritan.
Alan Moore's first issue of The Swamp Thing, "The Anatomy Lesson," wherein he rewrites Swamp Thing's entire origin...without contradicting anything that had gone on before.
The 9-cent issue of Fantastic Four that broke entirely new ground simply by showing a week in the life of the Fantastic Four through the eyes of a PR guy, completely redefining the group without actually changing a thing about them. (That was simply a brilliant issue, and probably my favorite single issue of any comic book I can think of right now.)
Johnathan
"The Kid Who Collected Spider-Man," from The Amazing Spider-Man.
"Silent Interlude" from G. I. Joe.
The issue of The Punisher when a seriously-wounded Frank Castle collapses in the woods just outside Joan the mouse's cottage, and he has to fight off the enemies who track him there with what he can scrounge.
The first issue of Astro City, featuring a day in the life of the Samaritan.
Alan Moore's first issue of The Swamp Thing, "The Anatomy Lesson," wherein he rewrites Swamp Thing's entire origin...without contradicting anything that had gone on before.
The 9-cent issue of Fantastic Four that broke entirely new ground simply by showing a week in the life of the Fantastic Four through the eyes of a PR guy, completely redefining the group without actually changing a thing about them. (That was simply a brilliant issue, and probably my favorite single issue of any comic book I can think of right now.)
Johnathan
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Teflon Billy
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Richards said:
That was a good one, but my favorite is the one a few issues later when Doctor Doom goes incognito to track down the gypsy girlfriend he abandoned as a teenager. It's almost a touching story.
Almost
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Particle_Man
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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 Living 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.
Astro City, Starman, Usagi Yojimbo, Promethea (the Living 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.
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