What were the best comics in your opinion?

Second_Death · Post by **Second_Death** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 3:45:17 pm

Just finished reading both volumes of Astro City for the first time. It was a very good series and well worth reading. I think the first 10-12 issues of V2 were my favorite. Thanks guys for suggesting them.

buff-beardo · Post by **buff-beardo** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:04:39 pm

betterthanezra wrote:I think that John Byrnes run on Fantastic Four is VERY good....

-Brian

I agree. Fantastic Four #260 was the first comic I ever bought as a kid and is also the comic that really got me into collecting when I re-read it as a teen.

My favorites are Fantastic Four 209-214, 242-244, and especially 258-262.

djwatson23 · Post by **djwatson23** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:00:04 am

bump

i love this topic! it has given me some great reads!

i just read the miller daredevil run (1st run) and was blown away. loved 161 with bullseye at coney island....classic!

cobra_commander · Post by **cobra_commander** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:55:57 am

djwatson23 wrote:bump

i love this topic! it has given me some great reads!

Yeah it is a pretty cool topic

TKWill · Post by **TKWill** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:00:27 am

I don't like to take the easy way out on this, but one title has always stuck with me, and that is Watchmen. I have given my TPB to many people to read and they have all enjoyed it. It was one of the strangest reads for me in high school. When I first discovered the issues around the time that the "Bubble" popped they were far edgier than anything that I was getting from my LCS at the time; he liked Image, which was the hot blonde of the comics industry in my opinion, fun to look at as long as she has nothing to say. Watchmen was, for me, the first comic that really forced me to question morality and humanity with zero apologies for making me do such a thing while reading a comic book. I can still pick it up and be blown away by the subject matter.

Cyberstrike · Post by **Cyberstrike** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:44:42 pm

Dreadstar
The Life of Captian Marvel
The Death of Captian Marvel
Transformers (Marvel US/UK)
Transformers (IDW)
Transformers (Dreamwave)
Supergirl (Peter David's run)
Fallen Angel
Warlock (Jim Starlin's run)
Watchmen
Camelot 3000
Superman: What Ever Happen to the Man of Tommorrow
Sin City
Batman The Dark Knight Returns
Miracleman
Swamp Thing (Alan Moore's run)
Sandman
Crisis on Infinte Earths
Identity Crisis
John Bryne's Next Men

TKWill · Post by **TKWill** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:40:34 pm

I am not a big Superman fan, but I am something of a fan of history and I really like The Red Son TPB. I thought that it was a nice take on how the world would have been completely different if Supes wasn't waving the red, white, and blue.

Zaphod · Post by **Zaphod** » Wed May 16, 2007 9:12:06 am

ThrillKillWill wrote:I am not a big Superman fan, but I am something of a fan of history and I really like The Red Son TPB. I thought that it was a nice take on how the world would have been completely different if Supes wasn't waving the red, white, and blue.

I thought Red Son was decent. I wasn't a big fan of it, especially I was not happy with their handling of Batman (come on, thats simply a cheap way to go)

Most of these are guilty pleasures, not necessarily the best stories AND some of them I haven't read in near a decade.

Captain America - The Blood Stone Hunt(357-363)- part treasure hunt, part Goonies the story wasn't great but I grew to love Diamondback from this storyline. Another favorite, Crossbones, was introduced as well.
The Avengers - The Crossing Line (319-324)- Sure Fabian must have been watching The Hunt for Red October a few too many times that week but I'm a junkie for when super-teams clash. Avengers, Soviet Super Soldiers, Alpha Flight and Atlanteans all fighting over a Russian Nuclear Sub. Good times.
X-Men, X-Factor, New Mutants - Inferno- In hindsight its a silly little story for the most part, especially the X-Terminators mini. (of course I had to collect that part too) It was my first X-story so it will always have a soft spot, but Sinister, the culmnation of the Madeline Pryor-Jean Grey story, de-aging Illyana, more insight into Cyclops' childhood AND the damned story didn't revolve around Wolverine. The X-Men exacting revenge on the Mauraders, Xaviers Mansion got blowed up (again)...I change my mind, Claremont did a good job of sucking me into this world.
New Warriors(first 25 issues or so)

along with many of the others listed previous, still one of my favorite single issue stories of all time is Eternal Warrior #0

leonmallett · Post by **leonmallett** » Wed May 16, 2007 9:30:36 am

MProyas wrote:
ThrillKillWill wrote:I am not a big Superman fan, but I am something of a fan of history and I really like The Red Son TPB. I thought that it was a nice take on how the world would have been completely different if Supes wasn't waving the red, white, and blue.
I thought Red Son was decent. I wasn't a big fan of it, especially I was not happy with their handling of Batman (come on, thats simply a cheap way to go)

Most of these are guilty pleasures, not necessarily the best stories AND some of them I haven't read in near a decade.

Captain America - The Blood Stone Hunt(357-363)- part treasure hunt, part Goonies the story wasn't great but I grew to love Diamondback from this storyline. Another favorite, Crossbones, was introduced as well.
The Avengers - The Crossing Line (319-324)- Sure Fabian must have been watching The Hunt for Red October a few too many times that week but I'm a junkie for when super-teams clash. Avengers, Soviet Super Soldiers, Alpha Flight and Atlanteans all fighting over a Russian Nuclear Sub. Good times.
X-Men, X-Factor, New Mutants - Inferno- In hindsight its a silly little story for the most part, especially the X-Terminators mini. (of course I had to collect that part too) It was my first X-story so it will always have a soft spot, but Sinister, the culmnation of the Madeline Pryor-Jean Grey story, de-aging Illyana, more insight into Cyclops' childhood AND the damned story didn't revolve around Wolverine. The X-Men exacting revenge on the Mauraders, Xaviers Mansion got blowed up (again)...I change my mind, Claremont did a good job of sucking me into this world.
New Warriors(first 25 issues or so)

along with many of the others listed previous, still one of my favorite single issue stories of all time is Eternal Warrior #0

One of the great things about Gruenwald's run (it was Mark Gruenwald then, right?) was the introduction of Crossbones, as well as the Diamondback relationship.

Zaphod · Post by **Zaphod** » Wed May 16, 2007 10:12:20 am

leonmallett wrote:
MProyas wrote:
ThrillKillWill wrote:I am not a big Superman fan, but I am something of a fan of history and I really like The Red Son TPB. I thought that it was a nice take on how the world would have been completely different if Supes wasn't waving the red, white, and blue.
I thought Red Son was decent. I wasn't a big fan of it, especially I was not happy with their handling of Batman (come on, thats simply a cheap way to go)

Most of these are guilty pleasures, not necessarily the best stories AND some of them I haven't read in near a decade.

Captain America - The Blood Stone Hunt(357-363)- part treasure hunt, part Goonies the story wasn't great but I grew to love Diamondback from this storyline. Another favorite, Crossbones, was introduced as well.
The Avengers - The Crossing Line (319-324)- Sure Fabian must have been watching The Hunt for Red October a few too many times that week but I'm a junkie for when super-teams clash. Avengers, Soviet Super Soldiers, Alpha Flight and Atlanteans all fighting over a Russian Nuclear Sub. Good times.
X-Men, X-Factor, New Mutants - Inferno- In hindsight its a silly little story for the most part, especially the X-Terminators mini. (of course I had to collect that part too) It was my first X-story so it will always have a soft spot, but Sinister, the culmnation of the Madeline Pryor-Jean Grey story, de-aging Illyana, more insight into Cyclops' childhood AND the damned story didn't revolve around Wolverine. The X-Men exacting revenge on the Mauraders, Xaviers Mansion got blowed up (again)...I change my mind, Claremont did a good job of sucking me into this world.
New Warriors(first 25 issues or so)

along with many of the others listed previous, still one of my favorite single issue stories of all time is Eternal Warrior #0
One of the great things about Gruenwald's run (it was Mark Gruenwald then, right?) was the introduction of Crossbones, as well as the Diamondback relationship.

yep, Gruenwald could be a little hit and miss but Cap just seemed easier back then. Of course it felt more like Detective Comics Cap some of the time and City of Poison was another story I enjoyed. That one had a kick *SQUEE* battle with Bullseye, then Daredevil and ultimately Crossbones. Cap addicted to drugs, fighting Black Widow and Diamondback AND Cap stripped of the Super Soldier Serum (I don't know when/how he got it back come to think of it)

RIP Grueney.

and Ron Lim covers (even if he did use the "floating heads" effect)