The best 5 DC monthly comics in 2008?

Lightning Strike · Post by **Lightning Strike** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 3:18 pm

IMO, the best 5 monthly DC books in 2008 were the following:

GL
GLC
All Star Superman
Teen Titans
Action Comics (mostly due to the storyarc featuring the Legion)

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 5:14 pm

Birds of Prey
Green Lantern Corps
Detective (when not caught up in crossovers)
Green Lantern
Rann-Thanagar Holy War

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 6:19 pm

Fables
Ex Machina (Wildstorm is DC)
DMZ

That's all that's great from DC for me and that's all I read. I bet I'll put GL up there when I read the Sinestro War HC I just picked up for half off.

Lightning Strike · Post by **Lightning Strike** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 6:31 pm

400yrs wrote:Fables
Ex Machina (Wildstorm is DC)
DMZ

That's all that's great from DC for me and that's all I read. I bet I'll put GL up there when I read the Sinestro War HC I just picked up for half off.

Guaranteed!

J-Scott-R · Post by **J-Scott-R** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 6:59 pm

Fables
Justice Society of America
Green Lantern
Action Comics
Detective Comics( Up until the RIP crap)

sanman · Post by **sanman** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 9:45 pm

All Star Superman
Green Lantern
Green Lantern CORPS
Detective (before RIP)
At a loss for #5 but Batman had a few good issues but was not consistent

geocarr · Post by **geocarr** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 9:49 pm

Justice Society of America
Air
Young Liars
Madame Xanadu
Trials of Shazam

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:27 pm

GL
GLC
EX M
ACTION JOHNS HALF
Superman

Byrneout · Post by **Byrneout** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:56 am

Justice Society of America
Young Liars
Green Lantern Corps
Legion of Super-Heroes/Jonah Hex (tie)
Fables/Jack of Fables (I consider them the same book with two different focus stories...)

leonmallett · Post by **leonmallett** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:35 am

For me the five best ongoings were:

Justice Society of America
Blue Beetle
Secret Six
Booster Gold
Justice League of America

If I were to include finite/limited series I would add:
All-Star Superman (never really monthly), bumping JLoA.

caxiotis · Post by **caxiotis** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:39 pm

GL
Action Comics
Fables
Scalped
Final Crisis (just joking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

)

BloodOfHeroes · Post by **BloodOfHeroes** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:41 pm

All I read were

LSH
YOUNG LIARS

(that were monthlies. I read KV's mini)

Byrneout · Post by **Byrneout** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:32 pm

And, on behalf of my 5 year old...

Billy Batson & The Magic Of Shazam
Tiny Titans
DC Superfriends
Supergirl (the all ages, not the main DCU title)

...he doesn't yet have a fifth (Sonic The Hedgehog doesn't count towards DC), but I'm guessing the DCU Elementary book will likely take that slot...

h-comics · Post by **h-comics** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 6:21 pm

1. Green Lantern
2. Green Lantern Corps
3. Action comics
4. ?
5.?

Jesse

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 7:21 pm

caxiotis wrote:GL
Action Comics
Fables
Scalped
Final Crisis (just joking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! )

I really need to pick that one up.

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 7:50 pm

Jay Tomio wrote:
Final Crisis
Really enjoyed it thus far.

Final Crisis is just way too confusing, and I've read just about every issue and tie-in they have for it.

Lightning Strike · Post by **Lightning Strike** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 8:05 pm

Chiclo wrote:
Jay Tomio wrote:
Final Crisis
Really enjoyed it thus far.
Final Crisis is just way too confusing

yep

Eternalwarrior68 · Post by **Eternalwarrior68** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 8:49 am

I love the DCU, here goes:

Green Lantern
Justice Society of America
Green Lantern Corps
Batman (pre R.I.P)
Booster Gold

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 8:49 am

pre rip

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:03 am

Jay Tomio wrote: Word for word Morrison's doing some damn fine writing.

Word for word, his writing is fine. However, when he puts the words together in a story, I have no clue what the hell the story is about.

Jay Tomio wrote:I've never had difficulty following once going, on. Indeed the point of a mystery is exactly that. That's just me.

I didn't read the Crisis stuff, but RIP was not good for me. I like mysteries too, but I need to be able to tell what the heck is even happening in the panels. To that end, the art did not help in RIP.

Acid would help when reading this stuff. That's for sure.

tictuck · Post by **tictuck** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:11 am

I don't usually buy monthly new books (Cost Prohibitive), but was able to snag at my LCS a bunch of the current JSA series(Gog Storyline) and the Current GL & GLC for a $1 a piece and man I'm tempted to get back into monthly titles again by these books. Really good stuff IMHO

Possible Spoiler Alert Although I'm sure They're old Questions

Quick question and maybe a spoiler alert also but when were Kilowog and most of the current GLC brought back to life and how? I'm either just fogetting when this happened (I Remember Hal Jordan Killing Kiliwog) or didn't read when they were brought back. How and what issues did Superman from Kingdom Come Earth come into JSA Earth along with Gog?

Lightning Strike · Post by **Lightning Strike** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 2:01 pm

tictuck wrote:I don't usually buy monthly new books (Cost Prohibitive), but was able to snag at my LCS a bunch of the current JSA series(Gog Storyline) and the Current GL & GLC for a $1 a piece and man I'm tempted to get back into monthly titles again by these books. Really good stuff IMHO

Possible Spoiler Alert Although I'm sure They're old Questions

Quick question and maybe a spoiler alert also but when were Kilowog and most of the current GLC brought back to life and how? I'm either just fogetting when this happened (I Remember Hal Jordan Killing Kiliwog) or didn't read when they were brought back. How and what issues did Superman from Kingdom Come Earth come into JSA Earth along with Gog?

Kilowog and the rest of the Corps were brought back in GL: Rebirth.

KC Superman came back about six or seven issues ago in JSA.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 2:24 pm

rebirth was fantastic

tictuck · Post by **tictuck** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 2:37 pm

superman-prime wrote:rebirth was fantastic

Yeah, I've yet to read it because I only have the first couple issues , may have to break down and get the TPB. I've just read GLC Recharge TPB and loved it

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 2:47 pm

Jay Tomio wrote:Rebirth is a must read IMHO.

Should I read that before I read Sinestro Corps Wars? I'm just checking out GL, but I did buy the Rebirth books a while back (didn't read them).