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Everyone has heard of these lists for books, movies, locations to visit, etc, so I figured why isnt there one for comics/graphic novels?
If there already is a good one, then my apologies, lol.
Anyway, I'll start off with a few of my favorites ( I think all of what Im listing is DC, but feel free to add other companies as well, obviously):
1. Identity Crisis: Easily the best graphic novel Ive ever read.
2. Kingdom Come
3. Watchmen
4. V for Vendetta
5. Last Will and Testament (for the part where Bruce calls Alfred 'dad'.)
6) The Long Halloween
7) A Game of You: Sandman arc
8) From Hell
9) Strangers in Paradise
10) Elementals
31) Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman
32) Death: The Time of Her Life, also Gaiman
38.) The Vinland Saga by Makoto Yukimura
39.) 30 Days of Night by Steve Niles
40.) 300 by Frank Miller
41.) Sin City by Frank Miller
Kay sirrah, sirrah......to CE 25....;)
42) ALL OF THE PREACHER SERIES EVERY LAST BOOK
43) the Death of Superman (it's what brought me back to comics)
44)Blackest Night:Legion of Superheroes.
46) Avengers: Under Siege (not to be confused with the recent Siege Marvel event)
47) Body Bags by Jason Pearson
48) Mouse Guard
49) JLA: The Nail
50) Northlanders
51) Y: The Last Man
52) X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills
53) Fantastic Four #67/496 (understand what makes Doom tick)
54) Captain America #14 (Vol. 3?) (understand what makes the Red Skull tick)
55) Infinity Gauntlet
46) Avengers: Under Siege (not to be confused with the recent Siege Marvel event)
I love this story! It's such an overlooked gem in the old Avengers run.
56) Astro City : Confessions
57) Astro City : Tarnished Angel
58) Daredevil : Born Again
(Easily one of the best Daredevil arcs EVER. I'm some one who believes that you dont really know who you are until you've been broken down to your essence. That means having everything stripped away from you and usually pushed to your breaking point. With this story more so than with Miller's Daredevil/Elektra work in his earlier run, we find out out who Matt Murdock is. And WHY he fights.)
59) Leigon of SuperHeroes : The Great Darkness Saga
(I read this when I was much, much younger in pamphlet form and have made sure to always have a copy of this in my collection. I'm a huge Marvel guy but I remember telling all of my friends that Darkseid was really, REALLY what all cosmic level villains should aspire to. I mean the thing with swapping Daxam to a solar system with a yellow sun in order to have billions of superman level soldiers? D000000d...)
60 & 61) Black Panther : The Client and Enemy of the State
(Listing them together because theyre actually one big story arc although it's not apparent until the middle of the second volume I think. Possibly, aside from the Don McGregor stories in Jungle Action, the BEST run of the character EVER. For one ofthe first times it really places T'Challa on par with Tony Stark and Victor Von Doom in terms of honor, intelligence and ruthlessness.)
62) the Akira collection
63) JLA: The Obsidian Age.
Y the last man
marvel universe (every incarnation from the 80 s and on)
girls
battle angel alita
Basilisk
The hedge knight 1 and 2
I'm really very surprised that, in this assembled group, no one has mentioned The Crow, nor The Boys, nor the Fall of Cthulhu run. I know they aren't exactly Marvel/DC, but this is some brilliant stuff. Nightly News? Pax Romana?
Anybody?
I'm really very surprised that, in this assembled group, no one has mentioned The Crow, nor The Boys, nor the Fall of Cthulhu run. I know they aren't exactly Marvel/DC, but this is some brilliant stuff. Nightly News? Pax Romana?
Anybody?
While I enjoy Fall of Cthulhu
and Moore's Neonomicon
and Wormwood gentleman corpse
and Crossed
and I have Dawn and Her Horned God tattooed on my back (the retail and trades covers of Cry for Dawn#6)
Not everyone who posts on this forum is over 17 and I tried to keep my list PG-13. It's why I debated about Northlanders and Girls and ultimately didn't add them.
As to the Crow *braces for the fanboi s$%& storm*
Its an almost complete hack of the movie the Wraith with Sherilyn Fenn (pre Twin Peaks) & Charlie Sheen (pre tiger blood winning) and as, IMO, one of the most obvious hacks ever done wouldn't make it on to my top 101 list.
I like it and all but nope.
I'm really very surprised that, in this assembled group, no one has mentioned The Crow, nor The Boys, nor the Fall of Cthulhu run. I know they aren't exactly Marvel/DC, but this is some brilliant stuff. Nightly News? Pax Romana?
Anybody?
While I enjoy Fall of Cthulhu
and Moore's Neonomicon
and Wormwood gentleman corpse
and Crossedand I have Dawn and Her Horned God tattooed on my back (the retail and trades covers of Cry for Dawn#6)
Not everyone who posts on this forum is over 17 and I tried to keep my list PG-13. It's why I debated about Northlanders and Girls and ultimately didn't add them.
As to the Crow *braces for the fanboi s$%& storm*
Its an almost complete hack of the movie the Wraith with Sherilyn Fenn (pre Twin Peaks) & Charlie Sheen (pre tiger blood winning) and as, IMO, one of the most obvious hacks ever done wouldn't make it on to my top 101 list.
I like it and all but nope.
This is stuff you are supposed to read before you die. Let's go with the hopeful idea that you die as we all should- old and wealthy- and so can enjoy something with a bit of cheesecake or excess blood because you are over the age of 18 and therefore are magically capable of handling such "mature themes".
I can get the objection, Dragonsong. Makes sense.
Not to argue, but it does throw me off a bit that you see The Crow as a hack of The Wraith. I had never heard of it, so I went looking. This was apparently a B list movie that released in `86... but O'Barr was working on The Crow 5 years prior to that.
I can get the objection, Dragonsong. Makes sense.
Not to argue, but it does throw me off a bit that you see The Crow as a hack of The Wraith. I had never heard of it, so I went looking. This was apparently a B list movie that released in `86... but O'Barr was working on The Crow 5 years prior to that.
Edited: There is a lot of hyperbole out there about his starting date but it was not published until 89 so it is seriously ponder-able that he mythologized his creation date.
One of my favorites was The Avengers: The Michael Saga. the sceene where all The Avengers have to wait for and commandeer a city bus to get to where they fight the BBEG puts it on this list.
I forgot to mention, at the time there were 23 Avengers.
Hush
Justice
Battle pope
Goon
Invincible
Darkest night? Its a green lantern comic
Crisis on infinate earths
Infinate crisis
Death in the family
Doomsday
Countdown
52 - DC without the big names
95) Promethea by Alan Moore and J.H. Williams III
96) First run of Runaways by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona
97) Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
98) Nightmares of Futures Past - Chris Clairemont, Uncanny X-Men 41/42 (from memory)
Reggie
99) Old Man Logan by Millar(Wolverine-Hawkeye set in the future)
I think the definition of a graphic novel has been stretched greatly in this thread. I know some trades capture entire story arcs from a regular run, but ridiculous company wide events like 52? Eh.
Look at the thread title again.
100) I Kill Giants
101 The dark Tower: The long road home.