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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 21, 2021 10:07:42 GMT -5
... I really enjoy Robbins-written Batman stories (yes, more than O'Neil). That sounds perfectly natural to me.
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Post by SJNeal on Jun 21, 2021 12:37:35 GMT -5
While I don't necessarily have any "go-to" series/runs that I re-read, there are many that I've inadvertently re-read much more than others. Some barely meet the boards qualifications as classic, but I still love them! Giffen & DeMatteis' JLA/I/E (1987-1992) - 5x Jones & Broderick/Bright's Green Lantern (1990-1994) - 4x Perez's Wonder Woman (1987-1992) - 3x Messner-Loebs' Wonder Woman (1992-1995) - 3x Gaiman's Sandman (1989-1996) - 3x Delano's Animal Man (1992-1995) - 3x Jones & Johnson's Wonder Man (1991-1994) - 4x Claremont/Nicieza & Lee/Kubert's X-Men (1991-1994) - 4x ~ #1-35Lobdell & Portacio/JRJr's Uncanny X-Men (1991-1994) - 4x ~ #281-316Byrne's Sensational She-Hulk - 3x Quinn/Ellis/DeMatteis & Rubi/Buckingham's Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme - 3x ~ #60-90
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Post by The Cheat on Jun 21, 2021 13:10:56 GMT -5
Mainly just cycle through the works of Moore, Morrison, Ellis, and Ennis.
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Post by brutalis on Jun 21, 2021 20:35:22 GMT -5
Go to in reading alternating yearly is my favorite team series. Avengers , Fantastic Four, Legion of Super-heroes and All New All Different X-Men. All four were faves I hunted for high and low as new issues came out and then began searching for when the LCS came to town. I managed to build my complete runs of Avengers and FF volume 1 ( that's some full looong boxes I tell ya) and the New X-Men from their debut to the end of Silvestri's run. LOSH I started up buying new when they broke away from Superboy's title and followed all the way until the end of the 5YL while sprinkling in back issues I might find or afford. Have all 4 series duplicated in all their black and white glory in Essential and Showcase editions as well.
These were MUST buys for me as a teen. At first due to finances as these team series provided the most bang for my bucks. All featured multiple heroes and villains both classic and new. Great (and not so great) stories of wonder, excitement and adventure full of incredible writing (mostly) and a lot of spectacular artists. I don't think I even need to list many of the writers or artists do I? Everyone knows!
I mean how can you not want to read over and over adventures of all these heroes? I couldn't let a new issue slip buy. I would always spend on the Teamsters (added on Defenders and Justice League of America when I could find them due to lousy distribution here in Phoenix) since they featured an option for reader watching his nickels, dimes and quarters. Why spend foraging single hero when you had a group of four, or seven or a dozen or an entire team so large you had to focus on them as small squads? It was all a numbers game in reading pleasure. The more the merrier as far as I was concerned.
Once money became plentiful and I added on other series to buy new I was still pulling out these four to read once more. They are just that good for me. With each read I can still find wonder and thrills no matter how well I know and remember the stories. And I don't cherry pick stories as I read through each year. I take the bad with the good as even the least in these four teams at times outshines much that I have read new these last few years.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 22, 2021 18:09:18 GMT -5
Claremont/Byrne X-Men Giffen/DeMatties Justice League Pretty much any Legion of Super-Heroes story from 1967-1987 Micronauts (series 1) Any JLA/JSA team-up from the original JLA title Almost any Avengers from about #50 to about #300 Many random issues of Marvel Two-in-One and Marvel Team-Up The first 50 issues of New Teen Titans All-Star Squadron
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Post by Calidore on Jun 22, 2021 21:46:41 GMT -5
The first Mage series, and even when I don't feel like rereading the whole thing, I'll read the Styx Casino sequence. As close to cinematic comics perfection as I've ever seen. Stinz by Donna Barr Blame by Tsutomu Nihei Mad (EC comics) Calvin & Hobbes Doonesbury Terry and the Pirates by Caniff (currently rereading this now, in fact) P. Craig Russell's opera adaptations The Jonah Hex minis by Truman & Lansdale Swamp Thing -- the runs written by Alan Moore and Rick Veitch Early Asterix and Obelix Doctor Strange -- the original Strange Tales serial Ms. Tree Mutts Peanuts Stalkers
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Post by dave on Jul 19, 2021 11:57:59 GMT -5
Delano's Animal Man (1992-1995) - 3x This was such a great run! Steve Pugh became THE Animal Man artist for me during that run (other than Bolland), and I think maybe others agreed because they brought him back to work on several issues of the New 52 revival. (Well, until Delano has the Bakers all join a commune... he did that with John Constantine, too, dunno what the fascination is with this character arc. Didn't really work for me either time.) I think the comic book issue I've read more than any other is Fantastic Four #219. It was a one-off where Namor attacks New York with a giant sea creature (again)... nothing special, but I loved the FF, I loved Namor, it was a single-issue story, and it was at least two or three weeks before my teacher caught me reading it where I left it in my desk in class, so I'm pretty sure I got a good 20+ reads out of that issue....
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Post by Confessor on Jul 19, 2021 18:16:32 GMT -5
Those who know me won't be surprised to hear that Marvel's original 70s and 80s Star Wars comics are among the most re-read in my collection. I know those comics backwards.
Anything from the first 200 issues of Amazing Spider-Man too, but especially the Ditko and Romita issues. I love those comics so much and never tire of them.
Also, Tintin. I've been enjoying those comic albums since I was a little kid.
After those three giants, other favourites that I re-read a lot are 1950s issues of Dan Dare, 70s and 80s Judge Dredd, pretty much any of Alan Moore's best known works (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Killing Joke, League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell etc), and Kurt Busiek's Marvels and Astro City.
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Post by brutalis on Jul 20, 2021 8:40:17 GMT -5
Ahhhhhhh, Star Wars at Marvel and Star Trek at Marvel/DC are favorite reads I can go to anytime. They are familiar friends from my youth which always satisfy. When the daily grind becomes tiresome, escaping to the stars re-energizes my spirit. Since having Trek comics DVD-ROM so it's available on my Kindle (carry it with me) at any time, the Gold Key run has become a fun retro read as well.
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Post by dave on Jul 20, 2021 10:04:44 GMT -5
Ahhhhhhh, Star Wars at Marvel and Star Trek at Marvel/DC are favorite reads I can go to anytime. They are familiar friends from my youth which always satisfy. When the daily grind becomes tiresome, escaping to the stars re-energizes my spirit. Since having Trek comics DVD-ROM so it's available on my Kindle (carry it with me) at any time, the Gold Key run has become a fun retro read as well. Really loved Star Trek at DC especially (I bought that DVD-ROM too ). Some of those stories carry over into the pocket books as well, especially the ones written by Peter David and Michael J. Friedman. The Gold Key stuff... woof. It's some iteration of Trek, I guess, but... I remember this one panel where Spock has to explain to Kirk what a black hole is.
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Post by kirby101 on Jul 20, 2021 10:17:38 GMT -5
Lots of Kirby stuff. Recently Early Thor, Demon, Kamandi and Black Panther. Barry Smith Conan books.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 20, 2021 10:34:22 GMT -5
I'm actually reading Age of Apocalypse and the 10 year follow up at the moment for god knows how many time this go around. Hoping it might jump start me into getting back into reading comics. It's my favorite X-Men story. Though now, as long as it's been I've been a little more objective this go around and not so nostalgic that I can see it's not perfect but I still enjoy it.
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Post by tonebone on Jul 20, 2021 13:44:46 GMT -5
Ahhhhhhh, Star Wars at Marvel and Star Trek at Marvel/DC are favorite reads I can go to anytime. They are familiar friends from my youth which always satisfy. When the daily grind becomes tiresome, escaping to the stars re-energizes my spirit. Since having Trek comics DVD-ROM so it's available on my Kindle (carry it with me) at any time, the Gold Key run has become a fun retro read as well. Really loved Star Trek at DC especially (I bought that DVD-ROM too ). Some of those stories carry over into the pocket books as well, especially the ones written by Peter David and Michael J. Friedman. The Gold Key stuff... woof. It's some iteration of Trek, I guess, but... I remember this one panel where Spock has to explain to Kirk what a black hole is. I worked on a Star Trek VR game a few years ago, and there was a Vulcan NPC character that would explain any story points or objectives or science stuff to you. We named him "Exposition Vulcan".
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Post by tonebone on Jul 20, 2021 13:52:51 GMT -5
Ahhhhhhh, Star Wars at Marvel and Star Trek at Marvel/DC are favorite reads I can go to anytime. They are familiar friends from my youth which always satisfy. When the daily grind becomes tiresome, escaping to the stars re-energizes my spirit. Since having Trek comics DVD-ROM so it's available on my Kindle (carry it with me) at any time, the Gold Key run has become a fun retro read as well. I too loved those comics, particularly the Marvel Star Wars and Star Trek. Star Trek the Motion Picture was really my first exposure to Trek (aside from a handful of Gold Key comics). We didn't really get the reruns on TV in my area as a kid. As soon as the TMP comics were announced, my mom subscribed to them for me and I received the entire run in plain brown wrappers. I loved those comics and read them until they fell apart. Recently, I bought the Marvel Star Trek "Omnibus" from IDW which was disappointing. It was smaller than comics size, on glossy paper, with the WORST reproduction I have ever seen in a comic. I guess they couldn't get the films from Marvel, so they were all scanned from the printed comics, and then adjusted in Photoshop until they were well nigh illegible. Also, it didn't include issues 1-3 (the adaptation). But the stories are still great. Side note... I got Klaus Janson to sign Issue 1 for me at a con a few years ago. He gave me quite the puzzled look. Not the typical comic he's asked to sign, I think.
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Post by tonebone on Jul 20, 2021 14:02:54 GMT -5
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