not what you think are the best, but what are your favorite comics. The ones that impacted you the most or that you go back to the most. Just those top 5 you rank as what you need to have access too.
And fuck any rules to it, comic runs, graphic novels, short stories, anthologies, whatever, list them. and since I said fuck the rules if you can't stick to 5, go ahead
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OP's list is
>Kabuki -David Mack
>Ring of the Nibelung - P Craig Russell
>Requiem Vampire Knight - Pat Mills and Oliver Lederoit
>Shame - Loverne and John Bolton
>Hellblazer - just generally
Hellblazer is what got me into comics, it wouldn't be on my top 5 (but maybe top 10) otherwise. But it's the only reason I'm reading comics today.
Bone
Goon
Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
Scott Pilgrim
Gerbers Howard the Duck
This was a toughie. I wanted to include more Marvel and DC, but if I'm honest with myself, these are my faves.
>all ameritrash
That's why Sup Forums is what it is
yeah, I wanted to include Simonson's Thor, but it was shaved off by Hellblazer.
For what it's worth, Asterix and Dylan Dog are in my top ten.
Only Goscinny Asterix, obviously.
>ameritrash
>Pat Mills, Oliver Lederoit
>John Bolton
>Hellblazer
you what? my list is half british
Same difference really
>O'Neil's Question
>Multiversity
>The Dark Knight Returns
>Agent Venom
>All-Star Superman
even if you consider Morrison, Moore and the rest as American comics, they really did save american comics. But outside Hellblazer the rest are not american comic writers. Pat Mills would burn down the world before he worked for Marvel or DC.
You are just a giant fucking pleb, accept it
>>Agent Venom
I would not expect to see that in this thread, cool.
O'Neil's Question I need to get more of. What I've read is fantastic
>From Hell
>Capricorne
>Incal
>Barefoot Gen
>Thorgal
I don't read comics
>Morrison's Seven Soldiers
>Ellis + Cassaday's Planetary
>Miller's Daredevil
>Robinson's Starman
>Ditko's Spider-Man
>Pat Mills would burn down the world before he worked for Marvel or DC.
But he did do Punisher 2099
That being said the user who posted never read comics to begin with, anyway
Evil Dead Army of Darkness - The reason I went into a comic book shop for the first time
Cable - First series I ever collected each issue and then bought the trades
Silver Surfer Requiem - Only comic book t ever make me cry
Marvel Zombies Vs AoD - First comic ever gifted to me
Judge Dredd - The only comic I support/read anymore. Im burnt out and bored with American superhero stuff.
>But he did do Punisher 2099
wait, what? you can't just casually upend my entire world like that user. Was it a monthly normal comic?
>New Frontier
>Watchmen
>batman and robin from Morrison
>Squadron Supreme
>dark knight returns
meme list but what can I say
>Im burnt out and bored with American superhero stuff.
well....but Marvel Zombies and Cable I can see why...dig deeper
It's not because of that. The op asked what impacted me the most. That stuff was the very first early stuff I read.
In order
1. Superman: Secret Identity
2. The Goon
Power gap
3. Batman: The Long Halloween
4. All-Star Superman
5. Essex County
> Scott Pilgrim
> Morrison's Batman saga
> BKV's Runaways
> JMS' Spider-Man (excluding Sins Past and OMD, obviously)
> Locke and Key
>long halloween over All-Star
good range
I’m kind of new to comics, and my taste isn’t all that great, but:
>Born Again
>Infinity Gauntlet (before the movie was announced, I swear)
>Harbinger
>Born Again
You only ever come back to this one story out of Millers run?
>Harbinger
Hello, fellow Valiant reader
Technically he co-wrote the book with Tony Skinner, but yes, the book was monthly. I think they did like 29 issues.
huh, well I concede, cheers mate
Favorite 5:
Frank - Woodring
Fables (#1-75)- Willingham
Collected Moebius - Moebius
Hellboy - Mignola
Planetary - Ellis
all star superman
saga of swamp thing
batman year one/dark knight returns
Final crisis
watchman
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Sort of. It was my first comic.
I found the story inspiring, and simply about a guy who’s life fell apart. You would watch Murdock slowly rebuild as the story went on.
I want to try reading the rest of the run sometime though. I’ve heard it’s good.
(Apologies for the edits)
>Sandman
>I killed Adolf Hitler
>Megg Mogg & Owl
>Animal Man (the Morrison run)
>Transmetropolitan
>Frank - Woodring
I like your taste, but what is this?
>Sandman
>Flex Mentallo (nice pic, OP)
>TDKR
>Morrison's Bat-Epic
>All-Star Superman
Only one of the best, weirdest comics ever made.
en.wikipedia.org
Animal Man (Morrison)
El día más largo del futuro (Varela)
Pluto (Urasawa)
Love and Rockets (Hernandez brothers)
All of Asano Inio's work if I have to pick one it must be Solanin.
ok yeah, this has been on the very far edges of my periphery for a long time I think. That's peaked my interested, thanks user
Enjoy! Woodring is the best. Check out his art book as well: "Seeing Things."
>El día más largo del futuro (Varela)
Nice. This book is super fun. Shame he hasn't done more books.
Out of curiousity I asked my gf
1. black widow: name of the rose - marjorie liu
2. black widow: 2014-15 run -edmondson's run
3. hawkeye - matt fractions run
4. elektra 2014-2015 - blackmans run
5. captain america: the winter soldier storyline
ordered by time of discovery
>Lein Wein & Bernie Wrightson - Swamp Thing
>Tanino Liberatore - Ranxerox
>Manu Larcenet - Blast
>Metal Hurlant (until ~1980)
>Blutch - Peplum
excluding manga and classics.
I know he's living on France now working as a graphic designer. Maybe it's publishing there and its not edited outside France.
Well I can't find anything else of significance online.
In no particular order.
Quest for Calevalla (Rosa Scrooge)
Asterix in Switzerland
Dr Fate by DeMatteis
Red Son
Morrison bats
>Bernie Wrightson
a god.
Thanks. a few here I haven't seen. Curious about that Paolo Pinocchio
break up with her for that taste
I kid, it's not terrible but not top 5 worthy IMO
American Flagg!
Scalped
Sweet Tooth
Criminal
Marshal Law
>that list
I genuinely believe this came from your gf.
I hope to god user that you introduce your gf to better comics.
The reason I picked up drawing seriously
She mostly reads new stuff because she gets put off by the art in old comics. I've been giving some of mine to ease her into it.
It is a pretty terrible list, if only for the fact that it's only cape comics. I pity people who grow up with current cape comics.
>because she gets put off by the art in old comics.
God I fucking hate people who say this as if somehow every single comic was drawn by the same person up until 1999 and then John New Art took over.
good on you. copy/learn from the best.
Planetary
Usagi
Preacher
Life and Times of Scrooge
Suicide Squad - Ostrander's run
Yeah I've expressed a similar attitude towards her. I think most of her exposure to pre-2000s comics come from shared internet images of "90s comics" which leads to a lot of biases. Though she has stated outright that she mostly prefers digital coloring. Her list is also skewed because she has huge crushes on Cap/Widow
for shame, sounds like you're locked in though, so good luck with the rehab effort.
I would say show her something like Demon Bear Saga to shock her out of that mind set. It's an extremely good story that is helped by the weird art.
Either that or show her some newer art by weird artists, maybe not start with McKean and David Mack style but there is a way in.
she sounds like fun at a comic con, a mindless experience
Corto Maltese
Alack Sinner
Giuseppe Bergman
Nexus
Usagi Yojimbo
Love & Rockets
Megg, Mogg, and Owl
Goodnight Punpun
Phonogram
Lose by Michael DeForge
>Alan Moore Swamp Thing
>Grant Morrison Doom Patrol
>The Goon
>Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
>Transmetropolitan
List could change, I'm about to start reading Hellblazer. Also there's about 20 other comics fighting for those top spots.
this thread has restored a bit of my faith in Sup Forums
Pluto(Urasawa)
Doom Patrol(Morrison)
Swamp Thing (Moore)
Starman(Robinson)
Fantastic Four/Spiderman(Lee and Kirby/Ditko)
(In no particular order)
DnA’s Guardians of the Galaxy
Ellis and Millar’s The Authority
Scott Pilgrim
Batman: Year One
Superman: Secret Identity
Honorable Mentions: Multiversity and Zot!
Pasko and Burchett's Blackhawk
Terry and the Pirates
E-Man
Eisner's The Spirit
Time^2
>Batman Year One - Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli
>Transmetropolitan - Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
>Hunter X Hunter - Yoshihiro Togashi
>Hitman - Garth Ennis & John McCrea
>King City - Brandon Graham
was blackhawk really that mature? I have only seen covers so I got no clue
Lucifer
The Invisibles
New X-Men (Some bias here, it's some of the first comics I actually read.)
All-Star Superman
Morrison's Batman Epic
Incal
From Hell
Squadron Supreme
Weapon X
Kraven's Last Hunt
Enigma
Doom Patrol(Morrison)
Saga of The Swamp Thing
Last Look
The Wrenchies
Why I Hate Saturn
Enigma
Gillen's JiM
Marvel 1985
Maze Agency
1. Terry & The Pirates
2. Watchmen
3. Bone
4. Calvin & Hobbes
5. Jon Sable, Freelance
Fucking based taste btw, it's hard to find peeps who like the classics
>Superman: Red Son
>All-Star Superman
>Flex Mentallo
>Grant Morrison's run of Animal Man
>Watchmen
>Moore and Morrison
branch out more. they are good but some other things should impact you more than a single writer
-Mafalda
-Dylan Dog
-Eltingville Club (it has a re-reading appeal I can't explain myself)
-Fullmetal Alchemist
Buddy Bradley -HATE-
buzz off
Not in exact order but the 1st 3 are right.
but that's all marvel and dc. I can understand a couple on the list, but really?
Your right Godzilla - Half Century War should be on there also. (idw)
What do you most take issue with on there?
most of what I read there has been ok. It's th fact that it's top 5 comics and I don't think they pass that bar, they are good comics but it's clear you need to read more variety
That's a nice page to know. Thanks.
Good taste.
I honestly believe that comics threads are fine, the problem here it's Sup Forums crossposters and delusional pedocartoon fags.
Comics threads are perfectly fine when they're about actual comics and not a random out of context Big 2 page with something that makes a particular group of people really angry followed by "What did he mean by this?".
- O'Neil's Question.
- A tie between Ennis' Hitman, Preacher and Punisher MAX.
- Wagner/Grant's Judge Dredd.
- Will Eisner's The Spirit.
- El Eternauta.
I have a read a good amount of comics.
Things to note.
I strongly prefer serious toned sci-fi oriented comics. Hence Hickman's work being on there.
I am a artist so artwork tends to weigh heavy on my enjoyment of a individual comic.
Going through some of them & my reasons for liking them,
> Silver Surfer - Requiem
1 of only 2 pieces of entertainment to make me shed tears as a adult.
> Remender's Uncanny X-Force
Probably should be lower on the chart but it's still the best X-book I have ever read, wasn't big on the arc in Captain Britan-verse or what they did to Psylocke's personality later in the run tho.
> John's Aquaman
Got me into Dc hardcore.
> Iron Man Haunted
Phenomenal revitalization of The Mandarin.
NOT COUNTING MANGA:
1. The Punisher in general when it doesn't suck (so basically the classic era of the late 80s and early 90s, and the Ennis run, and unfortunately not much else) [tie]
1. Marvel G.I. Joe [tie]
2. Badger
3. Frank Miller's late 80s Batman comics (The Dark Knight Returns and Batman Year One [these nearly changed my life, I did not know shit like this could even exist when I first read these as a kid])
4. Frank Miller's Daredevil (ALL of it [Born Again is my single favorite comics story though, but overall I'd rank the full body of work slightly below the stuff above])
5. Hitman [tie]
5. pre-Flashpoint Superman (there might have been some shitty stories, but I was a Superman fan for life until they "rebooted" him [I got back into it with Rebirth, but it's clearly not the same thing]) [tie]
6. Conan when written by Roy Thomas or Kurt Busiek or Timothy Truman
7. Hawks of Outremer (I wasn't sure whether to have this or Conan as 6th or 7th, but I decided on this order because there's just so much more of Conan
8. Scout (Timothy Truman's post-apocalyptic masterpiece, which he keeps saying he wants to do the 1st of the originally planned 2 "epilogue" miniseries that were supposed to come out 30 years ago but never did)
9. Fantastic Four up through the Walt Simonson run (what I consider the "classic era" of the team, after that they tried to "update them for the 90s" and they never quite regained their original tone [or popularity for that matter])
10. Steve Gerber's Foolkiller (the ULTIMATE "what if superheroes were real" story, better and more accurate/realistic [and insightful for that matter] than Watchmen)
MANGA:
1. Gunsmith Cats (including the sequel)
2. Akira (especially the colorized Marvel version)
3. Black Lagoon
4. High Score Girl
5. Fist of the North Star (including the sequels and spin-offs)
6. Bad Police
7. Mad Bull 34
8. Appleseed
9. Angel Cop
10. Anything by Isutoshi especially Slut Girl, but also Aiki and Tende Freeze!
I have read bigger comics like Kingdom Come or The Dark Knight Returns and they are great for sure but they didn't have a emotional effect on me or make me notably enthusiastic.
>E-Man
>Time^2
Nice to see these. Most of Sup Forums probably hasn't even heard of either.
I think you would enjoy some euro comics. Metabarons would be a good place to start
> Top 10 books 1 and 2
> Star wars Tales
> All star superman
> League of extraordinary Gentlemen: the Black Dossier
> Tf2 comics
I can never not read them
>E-man
my nigga
The Cartoon History of the Universe (Larry Gonick)
Cerebus the Aardvark (Dave Sim and Gerhard)
Prophet (Brandon Graham and friends)
Suicide Squad (John Ostrander and friends)
Jackie Chan
>All star Superman
>Watchmen
>Dark Knight Returns
>Hellboy
>Sandman
I'm relatively new to comics as a medium so I'm using you guys for recs.
Man of Steel (Byrne)
Wonder Woman (Rucka - Both)
Aquaman (Everything New 52)
Hawkworld (Including the ongoing)
One Piece (Oda, also shut up it's good)
Gintama (Sorachi)
Homestuck (Unironically)
Ookiku Furikabutte (Higuchi)
Catwoman (Brubaker)
Mister Miracle (Kirby)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Eastman/IDW)
xxxHolic (Clamp)
Gangsta (Kohske)
Gay stuff:
Literally anything by Yoneda Kou
Lies are a Gentleman's Manners (Matsuo Marta)
Saikyou Dentetsu Kurosawa
Blade of the Immortal
Holyland
Punisher MAX
MLP:FiM, it got me into comics[/spoilers]
Thanks for the rec.
Are you retarded? I lift my nose at capeshit with all the other elitists on here but most of those books are quality titles.