This is a list of the greatest comics/graphic novels of all time. If you’ve read them already do it again. If you haven’t then what are you waiting for? Get to it.
**JLA/Avengers 1-4 **- The Gold Standard
Marvel
Thor 337-382
Thor v2 1-25
Avengers Forever
Fantastic Four 232-288, v3 4-32
Thunderbolts 1-12
Amazing Spider-Man 141-142, 229-230
Wolverine v1
Incredible Hulk: Ground Zero
Infinity Gauntlet
Punisher v3 1-12
New Mutants Special Edition #1 & Uncanny X-Men Annual 9
Daredevil: The Man Without Fear
Captain America v 5 25-42
DC
New Teen Titans: Judas Contract
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Batman: Long Halloween
Batman: Dark Victory
Batman: Year One
Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps (Yes all of it)
All-Star Superman
JLA: Earth-2
JLA/JSA: Virtue and Vice
Kingdom Come
Action Comics 858-863 866-870
Final Crisis: Rogues Revenge
I’ll add some more if I think about but those are pretty much the greatest comics of all time. You could argue if you want but you’ll just be wrong.
I think you should add a rule where if someone doesn’t like what you like, to not be a flaming a-hole and be polite in that, or better yet, just STFU.
…anyways here are my picks off the top of my head- From Marvel-
Academy X series
Astonishing X-Men (Whedon’s run)
Avengers: Red Zone
DeadPool series
MODOK’s Eleven (I’ma give it a reread someday)
Union Jack: London Burning
Nova
Guardians of the Galaxy
Spiderman: Kraven’s Last Hunt
Old Man Logan
Planet Hulk
Ghost Rider
DC-
Batgirl
Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol (#19-65-ish)
Grant Morrison’s Animalman (1-26, should consider reading past that someday because I heard the other authors’ work is good)
Green Lantern
Sinestro Corps War
Secret Six
Jonah Hex (My fav. DC character)
Superman (well ever since Brainiac TBH)
World of New Krypton (If it counts, I know it’s only 2 issues in but Rucka has me sold)
Manhunter (up until the break they took)
Gail Simone’s Birds of Prey (#56-1XX)
All-Star Superman
Vertigo/Wildstorm-
The Kev series
Y the Last Man
Fables
Egypt
Other publishers-
The Sword by the Luna Brothers
IDW’s Transformers series
Mirage’s TMNT comics (seriously what must be done to get TPBs of Vol. 1 and 2?!?!?!)
Tales of the TMNT
Atomic Robo
Xenozoic
Invincible
Dynamo 5 (I :lovin: Scrap, not to mention that she’s got DAT ASS)
Scion from the CrossGen comics series
Warren Ellis’ Fell (best comic series ever or best comic series ever ;))
Miracleman (I suck for not being able to get into Gaiman’s run on the series ;_; )
Rex Mundi
Scud
The Goon
The Mask comic book series
Usagi Yojimbo
Welcome to Hoxford (by Ben Templesmith, this guy rocks)
Wormwood Gentleman Corpse (also by Templesmith!)
Firebirds oneshot
Actually the Marvel and DC ones are off the top of my head, as there are others I fully enjoyed and will post them later.
Tizoc - This is SRK afterall so it’s hard for me to pass a rule like that. Fairly sure most of us have had our online sensitivity meters broken long ago when we were ‘New Members…’ :wonder:
I’ve already stressed in the rules that people should treat people how they wish to be treated, even if some people do not.
At best all I can say if someone doesn’t like something you like, well that’s just life. Step back a bit and realize that no one is attacking something you wrote or worked on, just something you like and they do not. And if you enjoy something it really shouldn’t matter to you what anyone else thinks.
And knowing is half the battle! G. I. JOOOOOOOOOOE!
^Coolio, bossman, and speaking of G. I. Joe-
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Oh and I kindly recommend reading some of the series I mentioned, especially The Sword.
Of course. How could I forget Chris Claremont’s legendary run on Uncanny X-Men?
Particularly issues 129-137 (Dark Phoenix), 141-142 (Days of Future Past), and the best run of all 162-213. Comic Book Heaven.
And I almost forgot about the greatest X-Men storyline ever which is The Age of Apocalypse. Only the old stuff. If it was made after 95 then it’s crap.
Runaways vol 1-2 is great stuff.
Astonishing X-Men (Whedon) of course.
Route 666 was a good read.
Fray.
Both Death minis.
Sandman.
The Dreaming from issue 28 or so on to the end.
Marz’ Witchblade.
Nextwave.
Ultimate Spider-Man.
Dynamo 5.
Midnight Nation.
Amazing Spider-Man - Lee/Ditko, Lee/Romita Sr., Roger Stern, Peter David, Early Michelinie, some of JMS’ run
Kraven’s Last Hunt
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
Uncanny X-Men - Early Claremont, some of the Lobdell stuff
X-Men: Inferno
Incredible Hulk - Peter David
Hulk: The End
Wolverine (Original limited series)
Daredevil - Frank Miller, Ann Nocenti/Romita Jr. run
X-Factor - Louise Simonson
Secret Wars I
Excalibur - Alan Davis
New X-Men - Grant Morrison
Spider-Girl
Spider-Man 2099
New Avengers
Dark Avengers
Planet Hulk
World War Hulk
X-Statix
Old Man Logan
Secret Invasion
Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane - Sean McKeever
Young Avengers
Captain America - Brubaker
Spider-Man / Red Sonja
Nightcrawler (Original limited series)
Magneto: Testament
Spider-Ham - Original series
Infinity Gauntlet, Saga (Anything to do with the Gems)
The Illuminati
She-Hulk - Dan Slott
G.I. Joe
Transformers
Godzilla
Civil War
Astonishing X-Men
DC
All-Star Superman
The Dark Knight Returns
Batman Child Of Dreams
Kingdom Come
Killing Joke
Batman Black And White series
Batman - Grant Morrison
Detective Comics - Paul Dini
Nightwing - Dixon’s run, Peter Tomasi’s run
Teen Titans - Wolfman and Perez
Teen Titans Go!
Young Justice
Identity Crisis
52
Watchmen
MARVEL/DC CROSSOVERS
JLA/Avengers
Spider-Man and Batman 1 - Joker/Carnage
Spider-Man and Batman 2 - Kingpin/Ra’s
Captain America and Batman
X-Men Teen Titans
OTHER
From Hell
League of Extraordinary Gentleman
Y: The Last Man
Megatron Origin
Street Fighter series (Udon)
Buffy Season 8
Spy Boy
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Original series, including the 2 year arc with indy writers and artists, some of my favorite stories are from that arc
Donald Duck - Only stories written by Carl Barks or Don Rosa
Uncle Scrooge - See above
The Wedding of Popeye and Olive Oyl - Peter David one shot
Probably forgetting a ton of stuff, but that’s more or less a gist of some of the stuff I really like and remember fondly over the years.
deadpool
daredevil : born again (i’d have to say GOAT), and man without fear
inhumans (jae lee and jenkins)
sinestro corps war
flash : blitz
ultimates v1 and v2
Yeah and he referenced the old Segar comic strips, lol I thought I was the only one that knew about them! Popeye in the original comic strip is really different from the cartoons. Fantagraphics has been re-releasing the old comic strips, they have up to 3 books out now.
PAD brung up old things like Ham Gravy who was Olive Oyl’s old boyfriend and Sea Hag being in love with Wimpy, a lot stuff only found in the Strip! He even went into the Whiffle Hen giving Popeye his involnurability (Spinach was not a huge factor in the strip, he was just freakishly strong, could survive bullet wounds and lots of craziness) and if you go back and read the strips it made perfect sense!
That’s what PAD’s my favorite writer. He can do a comic book about Cocoa Puffs and he will go out of his way to watch every single Cocoa Puffs comercials ever made and reference them even if only 2 people will get it. PAD rules! :tup:
As long as we’re at this, what are people’s opinions on Spider-Man: Blue? I’ve seen it around, and Loeb/Sale is easily my favourite comic book team, so I keep feeling like I should check it out, but I haven’t heard much about it at all.
It’s really good! :tup: Loeb’s a bit of a crybaby because of Gwen, it was written because he said “Oh nos the Spider-Man movie came out and no one is going to know who Gwen oh nos…” He still wants her to come back to life. :looney: Despite his own agenda it’s a really good read. Nice 60s feel to it and a recap of a lot of old issues if you just want the cliff notes on their relationship.
A funny tidbit is that in it, Peter and Gwen have sex. When JMS wrote wrote in the Goblin kids in ASM, he originally wanted to make them Peter and Gwen’s children hyper aged from the past. JQ didn’t want that to happen, so not only did he make them Gwen and Norman’s kids, he had Peter Parker tell Mary Jane he never had sex with Gwen, thus retconning Spider-Man Blue out of existence. Poor Loeb…
JQ is against Peter Parker having Pre-Marital sex. And now he was never married… 40 Year Old Virgin it is. :lol: Well I’m sure he still slept with Black Cat and MJ since even in BND land he still lived with them. Betty Brant while she was married too IMHO, but that one is left up to interpretation. 70s comic that had to be vague about it, but the author tried to imply that’s what happened as best as he could given the timeframe. Course I’m sure Marvel doesn’t want Spidey sleeping with married women in the long run.
