Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Following All The Other Blogs...50 Best

The 50 Best Things in Comics (not in order of importance):

  1. Paris Cullins on Blue Beetle
  2. Paris Cullins on Blue Devil
  3. Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run
  4. Frank Miller's THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS
  5. Alan Moore & David Gibbons Watchmen
  6. Having been able to read "mature" comics when I was a young lad (even if that meant buying Lords of the Ultra Realm...both mini-series)
  7. Grant Morrison's JLA
  8. Giffen/DeMatteis/Maguire JUSTICE LEAGUE/JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL
  9. Martian Manhunter's rebirth under Giffen/DeMatteis/Maguire
  10. Bob Fingerman's MINIMUM WAGE
  11. Brian K. Vaughan's Runaways
  12. Christopher Priest & M.D. Bright's QUANTUM & WOODY
  13. The Kenner Super Powers action figures
  14. Classic Brave & the Bold (when it was a Batman team-up book)
  15. DC Comics Presents (when it was a Superman team-up book)
  16. Infinity Inc, especially when Todd McFarlane was on the book
  17. The strides made in coloring/printing that allowed for better production values
  18. The ENTIRE Milestone line
  19. But especially ICON
  20. Bill Willingham's FABLES
  21. X-Men: Days of Future Past
  22. Scott McCloud's UNDERSTANDING COMICS
  23. Classic Denny O'Neill Batman and his stewardship of the franchise later
  24. Mark Gruenwald's SQUADRON SUPREME
  25. Jason's THE LEFT BANK GANG
  26. Marv Wolfman and George Perez's Crisis on Infinite Earths
  27. Alan Moore's Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow
  28. The days you could buy new comics 4 for $3
  29. The days you could find stuff like DC First Issue Specials starring Creeper or Dr. Fate for a quarter
  30. The JMS run on Amazing Spider-Man before The Other happened
  31. Peter David's run on Incredible Hulk
  32. The first half of the Bendis/Bagley run on Ultimate Spider-Man
  33. Screw you all: the post-Batman run of JLDetroit (Vibe should have a case in the Bat Cave)
  34. Los Bros Hernandez LOVE & ROCKETS
  35. Grant Morrison's early run on Doom Patrol
  36. Frank Miller & David Mazzucchelli's BATMAN: YEAR ONE
  37. Ostrander's SUICIDE SQUAD
  38. Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon's PREACHER
  39. Frank Miller's SIN CITY
  40. The Brubaker/Fraction collaboration on IMMORTAL IRON FIST
  41. Andy Diggle & Pascal Ferry's ADAM STRANGE mini.
  42. Brian Michael Bendis' FORTUNE & GLORY
  43. Craig Thompson's GOODBYE, CHUNKY RICE
  44. The everlovin', blue-eyed BEST SHOTS crew
  45. The outstanding people I've met and called friends that came out of a love for comic books (names withheld in order to spare them guilt by association)
  46. Mark Waid & Alex Ross' KINGDOM COME
  47. Peter Tomasi's BLACK ADAM: THE DARK AGE
  48. The Waid/Morrison/Rucka/Johns collabo: 52
  49. Too much of Geoff Johns' DC work to name; but I'll go with most of his FLASH run
  50. Judd Winick's ADVENTURES OF BARRY WEEN, BOY GENIUS

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