What are some must-read comic books?
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KravenMorehead™
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beat me to it
WhenWeWereKings
All Star
Off the top of my head....
X-Men God Loves Man Kills
Captain America: Out of Time/The Winter Soldier
Watchmen
Batman The Killing Joke
Daredevil Yellow
Daredevil Guardian Devil
All Star Superman
Kingdom Come
Justice League Tower of Babel
Superman: Whatever happened to the Man of Tomorrow
Spiderman the Death of Jean Dewolff
Spiderman Kraven's Last Hunt
Batman The Long Halloween
Y: The Last Man (all of it)
Black Panther (all pf priest's run)
X-Men God Loves Man Kills
Captain America: Out of Time/The Winter Soldier
Watchmen
Batman The Killing Joke
Daredevil Yellow
Daredevil Guardian Devil
All Star Superman
Kingdom Come
Justice League Tower of Babel
Superman: Whatever happened to the Man of Tomorrow
Spiderman the Death of Jean Dewolff
Spiderman Kraven's Last Hunt
Batman The Long Halloween
Y: The Last Man (all of it)
Black Panther (all pf priest's run)
notPsychosiz
I started this gangsta sh-
My advice as a comic collector is start with something with less than 50+ years of issues.
That way you can start at the beginning and not miss anything.
My suggeston is read Marvel's eXiles. The Exiles hop around in and out of dimensions and time periods so it features characters from X-Men, Avengers, Spiderman, Hulk, Fantastic Four... etc. Its a continuous never ending cross-over with a rotating roster. But I suggest this cause you indicated an interest in the classics. The exiles visit points within the Marvel Universe that are considered pinacle to keeping the timestream pure... so classic events like the trial of the Dark Phoenix, the moment the gamma bomb turned Bruce Banner into Hulk, etc. These are all rewatched in the pages of exiles. It'll catch you up on the current on-goings as well as the history of the Marvel universe and it goes into many what if scenereos... like worlds were many of the supervillains plans were succcessful and what could have happened at crucual moments if events went differently.
i.e. everytime a crazy villain tries to do something and is stopped, it creates a dimension where that villain tried that same thing- but was successful.
Exiles explores those possibilities.
When I said "classic," I meant classic as in all-time great comic/essential comic to read. A classic can be something that came out a couple years ago.My advice as a comic collector is start with something with less than 50+ years of issues.
That way you can start at the beginning and not miss anything.
My suggeston is read Marvel's eXiles. The Exiles hop around in and out of dimensions and time periods so it features characters from X-Men, Avengers, Spiderman, Hulk, Fantastic Four... etc. Its a continuous never ending cross-over with a rotating roster. But I suggest this cause you indicated an interest in the classics. The exiles visit points within the Marvel Universe that are considered pinacle to keeping the timestream pure... so classic events like the trial of the Dark Phoenix, the moment the gamma bomb turned Bruce Banner into Hulk, etc. These are all rewatched in the pages of exiles. It'll catch you up on the current on-goings as well as the history of the Marvel universe and it goes into many what if scenereos... like worlds were many of the supervillains plans were succcessful and what could have happened at crucual moments if events went differently.
i.e. everytime a crazy villain tries to do something and is stopped, it creates a dimension where that villain tried that same thing- but was successful.
Exiles explores those possibilities.
notPsychosiz
I started this gangsta sh-
The comics that are regarded as classics are pretty well defined already.
Killing Joke, Laughing Fish, Dark Knight, Phoenix Saga, Infinite Crisis, etc.
Thing is... much like re-watching Nightmare on Elmstreet 1, some things simply do not age well.
You might want to look up Tower of Babel (DC) its one of the better ones.
Or Salvation Run (also DC) if you want to see the epic showdown of TeamLex vs TeamJoker.
Since you are open to new school stuff check out Marvel's Runaways.
Its one of the smarter more edgy entries. It breaks away from their normal format. Its not even set in New York.
Killing Joke, Laughing Fish, Dark Knight, Phoenix Saga, Infinite Crisis, etc.
Thing is... much like re-watching Nightmare on Elmstreet 1, some things simply do not age well.
You might want to look up Tower of Babel (DC) its one of the better ones.
Or Salvation Run (also DC) if you want to see the epic showdown of TeamLex vs TeamJoker.
Since you are open to new school stuff check out Marvel's Runaways.
Its one of the smarter more edgy entries. It breaks away from their normal format. Its not even set in New York.
IllustratorMike
All Star
Avengers: The Korvac Saga
Batman: Hush
Batman: Knightfall
And the new Power Man/Iron Fist joint has been terribly entertaining thus far for me.
Batman: Hush
Batman: Knightfall
And the new Power Man/Iron Fist joint has been terribly entertaining thus far for me.
Days of Future Piff
Superstar
Marvel:
Spider-man:
- Death of the Stacys
- Kraven's Last Hunt
Fantastic Four:
- Silver Surfer: the Coming of Galactus
X-men:
- Dark Phoenix Saga
- Days of Future Past
- God Loves, Man Kills
Daredevil:
- Born Again
Miscellaneous:
- Infinity Gauntlet
- Walt Simonson's run on Thor (
)
(I'm mostly a Marvel reader, so I'll let the brehs who know better than me recommend some DC stuff beyond obvious classics like Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, Year One, and The Killing Joke
)
Spider-man:
- Death of the Stacys
- Kraven's Last Hunt
Fantastic Four:
- Silver Surfer: the Coming of Galactus
X-men:
- Dark Phoenix Saga
- Days of Future Past
- God Loves, Man Kills
Daredevil:
- Born Again
Miscellaneous:
- Infinity Gauntlet
- Walt Simonson's run on Thor (
)(I'm mostly a Marvel reader, so I'll let the brehs who know better than me recommend some DC stuff beyond obvious classics like Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, Year One, and The Killing Joke
)
Moose_Greyjoy
I DO Not Sow
It can be overwhelming with the amount of books that's on the stand.I went into a comicbook store the other day. I've never read one. I just looked at the toys and left because i was overwhelmed
Young Bishop
Piff Poster
Batman: Hush
Superman: ruin
Batman/Superman
My brother got me that book last year for Christmas! Jim Lee put some work in
It's been said before in this thread, but All-Star Superman is crucial reading. I generally dislike Superman, but that series is damn near flawless, and made me understand why superman fans like him.
This. Also I really recommend:
Lucifer
Hellblazer (earlier runs)
Green Arrow (Mike Grell run)