Kevin's Watch

Limiting it to mini-series, or titles that lasted less than a couple of dozen issues, I'm really partial to:

John Byrne's Next Men - nice take on how the powers affect those who have them
Invisibles Series 2 - maybe one day I'll understand it
Rising Stars - will it ever be finished
Quantum and Woody - fun as well as realistic
1602 - great story, and great art
Nomad - liked the idea, and the cross-dressing issue was a hoot

Honourable mention to J Michael Straczynski's Amazing Spider-Man run, long may it continue.

Tom

tomo wrote:Quantum and Woody - fun as well as realistic

The Owsley/Bright run of PMIF is really great. Inconsistent with IF's history/abilities, but still a great run. (Up until IF's death, anyway, which he made so stupid as a protest.) At least as good as Cleremont/Byrne or Duffy/Gammil(sp?). But I haven't been able to get into anything of his since then. His writing style just confuses me. Q&W and Black Panther just don't work for me. Ah well...

My favorites were probably the Wolverine mini series from 84, X-men's Days of Future Past, and the Infinity Gauntlet series.

I would really like to contribute to this thread but can't - I've tried to have similar conversations with alot of my friends, but can't. Why? Because I only read DC Comics growing up. I know, I'm a wierdo.

But - Crisis on Infinite Earths ROCKED.

<<<Never touched a comic book in my life.

Give us DC runs then! These may have all been mentioned, but: Levitz/Giffen run of LSH, Richard Dragon, The Question, Watchmen, plenty of JLA and JSA stories, Miller's Batman, Suicide Squad, Wolfman/Perez Teen Titans... The DC list could go on and on.

Teen Titans? That's a cartoon....

Yup. But it was a comic first, for maaaaany years now. Actually, lots of the episodes of the cartoon are based on various issues of the comic.

Uh.... I'll just take your word for it on that.

Decent of you.

Gah!!! Don't repeat that! We Ravers must keep our reputations as being horrid and indecent.

I knew there was something *off* about this particular Raver.


-GD

A few more DC runs include:

Neil Adam's Batman

Neil Adam's Superman (though I think these were scattered about in no particular order)

Neil Adam's Green Lantern/Green Arrow

Gil Kane's Green Lantern

Len Wein/Bernie Wrightson's Swamp Thing

Keith Giffen/Kevin Maguire's Justice League

Alan Moore's Swamp Thing

Jack Kirby's (and later Marshall Roger's) Mister Miracle

Mike Grell's Warlord

Neal Pozner/Craig Hamilton's Aquaman Mini-series

Peter David/Gary Frank's Supergirl

(The early) George Perez's Wonder Woman

...and I'm a died in the wool Marvellite.

dANdeLION wrote:...and I'm a died in the wool Marvellite.

Clearly!! But you didn't list anything that wasn't more than worthy!

Speaking of Grell, I don't remember if I mentioned Jon Sable - Freelance. Did you read that? I absolutely loved it!!

Has anyone mentioned Love and Rockets yet?

I really enjoyed Sandman.

Unfortunately, I never read it. I'll have to pick up a TPB or 2 soon....

Sandman was great... ooooh and Moonshadow.Love it. More recently Bone, although tis a different kind of thing.

as we are talking about comic books, i got to wondering what is your all time favorite comic book series and why?

Starman (James Robinson)
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the Golden Age (WWII) is my favorite and here we have a legacy character. Jack Knight is is the son of famed WWII hero Ted Knight/Starman. the tales center around Opal City out in the midwest. it was well written, without cliches. it had excellent tales of the past stories. Robinson created a rich history for a city that had existed for years without any depth. Shade is the best villain out there. (he knew Oscar Wilde, how cool is that?) the last run is the best I have ever read in a comic book. Robison also wrote the graphic novel, Golden Age. (my favorite contained story) go to your local comic book store and ask about this great series.
lambiek.net/artists/r/robinson_j.htm

I'm sure there's already a thread for this somewhere, but it's good to refresh things.

Animal Man 1-26 (Grant Morrison)

This was my introduction to the demented brilliance of Morrison. The way he turned the life of our hero Animal Man upside down and every which way was funny and shocking.