Best DC arc stories you ever read?

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#1  Edited By tristan95

And why is that?

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Blackest night and batman hush

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Convergence.

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Court of Owls

Identity Crisis

All Star Superman

Flashpoint

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Another?

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Batman: The Widening Gyre.

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There are a lot... but all time favourites would be:

  • All Star Superman
  • Superman: Last Son
  • Batman: The Black Mirror
  • Batman: The Court of Owls
  • Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps. War
  • Blackest Night
  • Aquaman: The Trench
  • The entire Judd Winick run on Green Arrow/Black Canary (the whole thing is one long story about Connor Hawke being shot/kidnapped)

Those are probably my favourites so far, my top 3 would probably be All Star Superman, Sinestro Corps War and The Trench. Love those books so much.

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Knightfall FTW

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Since Kingdom Come is my all time favourite comic, I love the JSA arc Thy Kingdom Come.

While not an arc, the first 12 issues of Power Girl are fantastic. It's fun and witty and has genuine heartfelt moments.

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In no order besides grouped by writer

The Dark Knight Returns
Kingdom Come
Superman: Red Son
Azzarello's Wonder Woman
Rucka's Wonder Woman
The Killing Joke
Saga of the Swamp Thing
Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow
All-Star Superman
Seven Soldiers of Victory
Morrison's Batman epic
Morrison's Action Comics
Morrison's Animal Man
Morrison's Doom Patrol

Multiversity gets an honorable mention, but since it isn't complete yet, it isn't on the list!

As for the why...well, they're all great stories imo, w/ great storytelling. Some show great heart and emotion (Kingdom Come, Rucka's WW, Red Son). Some were just profound to me as a kid (TDKR, read that when I was like 7 or 8 and was like "WTF THIS IS AWESOME"). Some are so poetic and reflect the potential of the medium as art (Moore's Swamp Thing). Some are just written by Grant Morrison (need I say more?)

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blackest night,forever evil,throne of Atlantis,trinity war,sinestro corps was,pretty much all of goeff johns run on green lantern,final crisis,multiversity when it finishes

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#15  Edited By SilverPool

Sinestro Corps War is da bomb yo

As well as Infinite Crisis, Batman R.I.P, Kingdom Come, Court of Owls, Zero Year Savage City, Superman: Brainiac, Flash Dastardly Death of the Rogues, Blackest Night, B&R Born to Kill, Throne of Atlantis, etc.

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#16  Edited By Zadoulo
  • Batman: Hush
  • Batman and Robin: Born to Kill
  • Outsider War
  • Batman: Court of the Owls
  • Flashpoint Paradox
  • The Killing Joke

All of these arc made me respect the characters' portrayal even more. The characters actually go through obstacles that REALLY stood in their way and they manage achieve their goals through sheer will-power which made me sit on the edge of my seat the entire time.

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#17  Edited By tristan95

@dr_cheesesteak: i only read new 52 action comics Morrison, and i didn't like it.

I will say Yes if you want to say more about Morrison run?

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#18  Edited By deactivated-5c901e667a76c  Moderator

Lemire's Green Arrow

Johns' Aquaman

The Black Mirror

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@tristan95 well, Morrison's work definitely seems to be the kind that is polarizing - ppl either love it or hate it. I think the reasons are usually opposite sides of the same coin - you either love his weird, high concept, scattered, sometimes overly meta-textual/subtextual work or you don't.

I'm a huge Morrison supporter. I know there are Morrison opponents. I think we all feel that way for the same reasons! So if someone either loves or hates his work, I think it's self-explanatory why. =D

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All Star Superman

Superman: Last Son

Batman: The Black Mirror

Anything Superman or Batman

Deadpool- Killustrated

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Two of a Kind by Bruce Timm, Mad Love by Bruce Timm & Paul Dini, Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? by Neil Gaiman & Andy Kubert, Dark Victory by Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale, first arc of Justice League United.

Technically Mad Love and Two of a Kind aren't arcs though they are still amazing.

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#23  Edited By jb681131
  • 4th world by Jack Kirby
  • Lobo: Portrait of a Bastich
  • Batman: Knightfall
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Sinestro Corps War, Blackest Night, Batman:Knightfall, Aquaman New 52 Vols. 1-3, Court of Owls, Swamp Thing New 52 Vol. 1-3

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Aside from a few obvious one that's already been mentioned...

  • Superman: Doomed
  • Lemire's Justice League Dark issues 9 - 18
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-The long Halloween

-Dark Victory

-Dark Knight Returns

-The Court of Owls

-The Black Mirror

-Red Son

-Birthright

-Kingdom Come

-American Alien

-Hellblazers original Run =200+ issues

-The Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga

-Jack Kirby's New God's

-Judas Contract

-Alan Moore's Swamp thing

-A good portion of Johns Green Lantern ( rebirth , sinestro corps war, blackest night )

-Tom Kings Omega men

-Tomasis current superman may make the list

Never cared for Morrison's books, outside of batman & Robin. ALL STAR. superman was okay , hated final crisis ,and JLA run was meh .

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JLA Rock of Ages

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The newest one I can think of is Injustice (The comic) But that ending was total bullshit

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#30  Edited By Jeremy1989
  • The Omega Men(2015)
  • Rebirth
  • Superman: Earth One
  • Green Arrow: The Outsiders War
  • Batman: The Killing Joke
  • Superman: Brainiac
  • Superman: Last Son
  • Superman: For Tomorrow
  • Batman: Hush
  • Blackest Night
  • Superman: Godfall
  • Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes

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#31  Edited By HeroUp2112
  • Teen Titans: The Judas Contract
  • Kingdom Come
  • Identity Crisis
  • Dark Knight Returns
  • Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters
  • Original Run of Hellblazer (200 or so issues)
  • Legion of Superheroes: Great Darkness Saga
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DC: The New Frontier

All-Star Superman

The Omega Men

Batman: Year One

Batman: The Long Halloween

Batman: The Black Mirror

Gotham Central: Soft Targets

Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters

The Omega Men: The End is Here

Grant Morrison's Batman and Robin

JLA: The Tower of Babel

Superman: American Alien

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Didn't see forever evil mentioned.

Liked it a lot

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Superman: Red son; Forever Evil: Rouge's Rebellion, Lex Luthor: Man of steel, Blackest Night, Justice league (throne of atlantis and the amazo virus arc).

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Green Lantern: Emerald Twilight

Batman: Knightfall/Knightquest/Knightsend

Reign of the Supermen

Superman: Last Son

Superman: Camelot Falls

Superboy: Hypertension

Flash: Dead Heat

Countdown: Arena

Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds

JSA: Fatherland

Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps War

Batman: No Man's Land

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#37  Edited By jb681131

I will update my previous answer:

  • Lobo: Portrait of a Bastish
  • Jack Kirby's 4th world
  • Superman: red son
  • 100 bullets
  • Streets of Gotham
  • Green Lantern by Geoff Johns omnibus
  • Swamp Thing: Charles Soule's run
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Green Arrow:

  • Broken
  • Outsiders War
  • Kill Machine

Superman:

  • Men of Steel
  • Bulletproof
  • At the End of Days
  • Rocket Song

Red Hood & The Outlaws:

  • Redemption
  • League of Assassins
  • Last Call

Lobo:

  • Targets
  • Beware His Might

Aquaman

  • The Trench
  • The Others
  • Throne of Atlantis
  • Death of a King
  • Maelstrom
  • Exiled

The Flash:

  • Move Forward
  • Rogues Revolution
  • Reverse
  • Out of Time
  • Zoom

Superman/Wonder Woman:

  • Power Couple
  • Casualties of War

Deathstroke:

  • God Killer
  • Gods of War

Justice League:

  • Origin
  • Throne of Atlantis
  • Amazo Virus
  • Darkseid War

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@scouterv: Why not say "all of New 52".

But I will agree on Arrow, Aquaman and Justice League (withou Origin which is the worst JL story I ever read). I will say that Flash isn't a bad read but not "the best arc story" there is.

I will assume you haven't read any pre-new52 story seeing your choices. Because there are far better Superman and Lobo stories.

And no Green Lantern or Batman in your list ??

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@jb681131: Because, I didn't like all the New 52.

And I've read a little Pre-Flashpoint material. And I know I missed a few, like Unbound for Supes.

However, I loath pre-Flashpoint Lobo. Nor do I care for Green Lantern or Batman, minus Beyond.

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  • Green Arrow the Longbow Hunters
  • Justice by Alex Ross
  • Kingdom Come by Mark Waid
  • 52 by Geoff Johns, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid Grant Morrison and Keith Giffen
  • Countdown to Infinite Crisis by Greg Rucka, Johns and Judd Winick
  • Sinestro Corps War, Blackest Night by Geoff Johns
  • All of Grant Morrison's run on JLA
  • OMAC by Greg Rucka
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#42  Edited By jb681131
  • Green Arrow the Longbow Hunters
  • Justice by Alex Ross
  • Kingdom Come by Mark Waid
  • 52 by Geoff Johns, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid Grant Morrison and Keith Giffen
  • Countdown to Infinite Crisis by Greg Rucka, Johns and Judd Winick
  • Sinestro Corps War, Blackest Night by Geoff Johns
  • All of Grant Morrison's run on JLA
  • OMAC by Greg Rucka

Nice choices, I haven't yet read all these but I heard lots of good about them. And +1 for picking OMAC, I've been reading Jack Kirby's work and discovered OMAC. I find him really underated and underused.

For Green Lantern why not include all of Geoff John's run ?

I'm a little disapointed with no Batman on your list.

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A lot of fine choices on here, but I recalled one that really flies under the radar that I thought I would share:

Blue Beetle (2006 volume) #s 22-25 "End Game"

- This was Jaime Reyes' first series. When it first started out it was co-written by Keith Giffen and a writer I was unfamiliar with named John Rogers. The early issues were kind of uneven and occasionally mediocre. When Giffen left (around issue 5 or 6), and I find this so weird because I am a huge Giffen fan, the title started to fly. John Rogers found his rhythm and turned it into a pretty solid, sometimes even great comic. Rogers left the title after issue 25, and he went out with style. His last four issues, #s 22-25 were title End Game and they featured Jaime Reyes making a bold move against the nefarious alien civilization The Reach, the race that had created the scarab, but could no longer control the one attached to Jaime. This non-stop action-packed final confrontation with the Reach came out of nowhere. I liked the comic before this storyline, but I was wholly unprepared for how tense and flippin' fun that story arc turned out to be. Subplots and supporting characters from throughout the previous 21 issues all coalesced into a rollicking fun adventure, the kind you read ever so often that reminds you why you love comics in the first place.

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i read this one where Batman's dad comes back to life (but its not him) and he tries killing Batman, but Batman aint havin' it. At the end Thomas is saying some dumb shit and then Batman yells "YOURE NOT THOMAS WAYNE!" and then some stuff happens but at the very end it shows Nightwing holding the cowl while standing on a building or something...i was very young when i read this. Does anyone know the title? Please help lol

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i read this one where Batman's dad comes back to life (but its not him) and he tries killing Batman, but Batman aint havin' it. At the end Thomas is saying some dumb shit and then Batman yells "YOURE NOT THOMAS WAYNE!" and then some stuff happens but at the very end it shows Nightwing holding the cowl while standing on a building or something...i was very young when i read this. Does anyone know the title? Please help lol

Probably Batman R.I.P.

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This story is part of the Grant Morrison big run that can be considered as a super-arc. It goes as follows:

  1. The Black Casebook (old Batman comics that Morrison references)
  2. Batman and Son (Batman 655-658, 663-666)
  3. The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul
  4. The Black Glove (Batman 667-669, 672 –675)
  5. Heart of Hush (Batman #846-#850)
  6. Batman RIP (Batman 676-678)
  7. Robin (175-176)
  8. Batman RIP (Batman 679-681)
  9. Outsiders (11-13)
  10. Nightwing (147-150)
  11. Last Rites - Last Days of Gotham (Detective Comics 851, Batman 684)
  12. RIP Missing Chapter (Batman 701)
  13. Final Crisis (1-5)
  14. Last Rites - Batman (Batman 682-683)
  15. Final Crisis (6-7)
  16. RIP Missing Chapter (Batman 702)
  17. Whatever happened to the Caped Crusader (Batman 686, Detective Comics 853)
  18. Last Rites - Nightwing (151-153)
  19. Last Rites - Faces of Evil Epilogue (Detective Comics 852, Batman 685)
  20. Robin (183)
  21. Battle for the Cowl
  22. Batman Reborn (Batman 687)
  23. Batman and Robin (1-12)
  24. The Return of Bruce Wayne (1-4)
  25. The Road Home Prequel (Batman 703)
  26. Time and the Batman (Batman 700)
  27. Batman and Robin (13-14)
  28. The Return of Bruce Wayne (5-6)
  29. Batman and Robin (15-16)
  30. The Road Home
  31. Batman:The Return
  32. Batman Incorporated vol.1 1
  33. Batman and Robin (17-25)
  34. Batman Incororated vol.1 (2-8)
  35. Batman Incorporated vol.1 - Leviathan Strikes!
  36. Batman Incorporated vol.2 - Demon Star (1-6)
  37. Batman Incorporated vol.2 - Gotham's most wanted (7-13 + special 1)

If you prefer tpb:

  1. Background Material
    1. The Black Casebook
    2. Dark Knight, Dark City
    3. Birth of the the Demon
  2. Batman and Son (new edition)
  3. The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul
  4. The Black Glove (deluxe)
  5. Batman R.I.P.
  6. Final Crisis
  7. Time and the Batman
  8. Battle for the Cowl
  9. Battle for the Cowl: companion (optional)
  10. Batman and Robin vol.1: Batman Reborn (absolute)
  11. The Return of Bruce Wayne
  12. Batman Incorporated
  13. Batman and Robin vol.2
    1. Born to Kill
    2. Pearl
    3. Death of the Family
  14. Batman Incorporated: Demon Star
  15. Batman Incorporated: Gotham's most wanted
  16. Batman and Robin vol.2: Requiem for Damian