top ten fav comic books/series
Honourable mentions:
Batman: Hush - pure cheese, but it was fun. and the teasing of jason todd coming back to life and becoming a villian was pretty awesome too. jim lee's art is solid.
Catwoman-i only have the first 25 issues, since they changed the art and i really loved the 'older-looking-classical-crime noir' feel it had
Daredevil - either the Man Without Fear mini, kevin smith's guardian devil are both real good.
Wildstorm/ABC comics. planetary, authority, top ten, sleeper, tom strong. all great.
10)Lone Wolf and Cub
haven't read all of it, but from what i've seen it's solid and i would like to get my hands on them one day....
9) marvel's ultimate line:
all of marvels best characters being rewritten and reinvented w/o 40 years of baggage.
8) JLA: Tower of Babel
7) Identity Crisis
collecting the series was great, lots of twists, and in some cases the secondary plot points were more interesting than the main murder mystery.
6) Kingdom Come
alex ross' paintings are great
5) Batman: Killing Joke
4) Preacher
pretty crazy comic, lots of people complain about the ending, but i thought it ended well. i think what happened is that half-way through Garth Ennis realized he didn't want to write about religion so much, but honour and friendship.
3) The Dark Knight Returns
this and ultimate spider-man were probably the 2 comics most responsible for getting me back into comics.
2) Maus.
1) Watchmen
my favourite parts are the origin of Dr. Manhattan, origin of Rorshach, and the big reveal at the end. |