The 50 Best Things in Comics (not in order of importance):
- Paris Cullins on Blue Beetle
- Paris Cullins on Blue Devil
- Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run
- Frank Miller's THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS
- Alan Moore & David Gibbons Watchmen
- 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)
- Grant Morrison's JLA
- Giffen/DeMatteis/Maguire JUSTICE LEAGUE/JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL
- Martian Manhunter's rebirth under Giffen/DeMatteis/Maguire
- Bob Fingerman's MINIMUM WAGE
- Brian K. Vaughan's Runaways
- Christopher Priest & M.D. Bright's QUANTUM & WOODY
- The Kenner Super Powers action figures
- Classic Brave & the Bold (when it was a Batman team-up book)
- DC Comics Presents (when it was a Superman team-up book)
- Infinity Inc, especially when Todd McFarlane was on the book
- The strides made in coloring/printing that allowed for better production values
- The ENTIRE Milestone line
- But especially ICON
- Bill Willingham's FABLES
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
- Scott McCloud's UNDERSTANDING COMICS
- Classic Denny O'Neill Batman and his stewardship of the franchise later
- Mark Gruenwald's SQUADRON SUPREME
- Jason's THE LEFT BANK GANG
- Marv Wolfman and George Perez's Crisis on Infinite Earths
- Alan Moore's Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow
- The days you could buy new comics 4 for $3
- The days you could find stuff like DC First Issue Specials starring Creeper or Dr. Fate for a quarter
- The JMS run on Amazing Spider-Man before The Other happened
- Peter David's run on Incredible Hulk
- The first half of the Bendis/Bagley run on Ultimate Spider-Man
- Screw you all: the post-Batman run of JLDetroit (Vibe should have a case in the Bat Cave)
- Los Bros Hernandez LOVE & ROCKETS
- Grant Morrison's early run on Doom Patrol
- Frank Miller & David Mazzucchelli's BATMAN: YEAR ONE
- Ostrander's SUICIDE SQUAD
- Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon's PREACHER
- Frank Miller's SIN CITY
- The Brubaker/Fraction collaboration on IMMORTAL IRON FIST
- Andy Diggle & Pascal Ferry's ADAM STRANGE mini.
- Brian Michael Bendis' FORTUNE & GLORY
- Craig Thompson's GOODBYE, CHUNKY RICE
- The everlovin', blue-eyed BEST SHOTS crew
- 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)
- Mark Waid & Alex Ross' KINGDOM COME
- Peter Tomasi's BLACK ADAM: THE DARK AGE
- The Waid/Morrison/Rucka/Johns collabo: 52
- Too much of Geoff Johns' DC work to name; but I'll go with most of his FLASH run
- Judd Winick's ADVENTURES OF BARRY WEEN, BOY GENIUS
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