Best Comic Books You Have Ever Read

There's been a lot of posts the past week or so about "name your top 5 current on goings" or "favorite arcs" and such. But I'm curious to know what are some of the best titles you have ever read since you've started reading comics?

Here's a bit of a challenge for the people that are up for it: Try not to say any Marvel or DC comics (although I will accept Vertigo)

I'll start:

- Saga

- The Walking Dead

- The Sandman

- Watchmen

- X-O Manowar

- Bloodshot

- Green Arrow (New 52, Lemire)

- Red Hood and the Outlaws

- Ultimate Spiderman (Vol. 1)

- Fantastic Four (Marvel NOW!, Matt Fraction)

Hmm lets see...

Saga

Watchmen

X-O Manowar

Lazarus

Hack/Slash

Locke and Key

Batman R.I.P.

Batman Hush

Thor God of Thunder

thats a good start I think

@batman922: **virtual high-five!!** Saga is awesome!

Since you dont want marvel or dc, preacher and the walking dead i guess

Budd's Cavewoman.
Spawn

er, none, as I only read DC and Marvel, unless you include the Beano, Eagle and Look-in from when I was a kid!

@jayc1324: I worded it wrong in the OP'. You can name off Marvel and DC titles too. But I know a lot of people exclusively stick to the big two, so I'm trying to have some users that are up to the challenge to express their love for some indie titles.

The Darkness

Aphrodite IX

Luther Strode

Lazarus

The Walking Dead

Without marvel and dc,

Conan from dark horse and GI joe from IDW come to mind

Heavy metal is awesome too even though its entirely different from any other comics here...

also Sandman from vertigo and Witchblade from Image

All Star Superman

Superman Brainiac

Kick-Ass

Walking Dead

Invincible

Nightwing New 52

Geoff Johns Green Lantern

Eternal Warrior (Pre-Acclaim)

De Indianen Reeks series by Hans Kresse (Don`t know the English title - I read them in neither English nor Dutch)

Blueberry by Charlier/Giraud

Footrot Flats by Murray Ball

Course I grew up with Hergès Tintin and Morris/Goscinnys Lucky Luke and still read from time to time

Punisher by Garth Ennis. Not all of them but when they`re good they are good.

@transformers1024: Yes it is, it is my favorite ongoing right now I wish it was a weekly and would continue forever lol

Fables, Sandman, Invisibles, Promethea, Watchmen, Buddha

Sinestro Corps War

Blackest Night

Weapon X

Old Man Logan

All Star Superman

Kingdom Come

What Ever Happened To the Man of Tomorrow?

Watchmen

V for Vendetta

Born Again

Edit: MiracleMan by Alan Moore

Locke and key

Promethea

Superior
Fables

Invincible

The Underwater Welder

The Crow

Kingdom Come

The Walking Dead

Grant Morrison's run on Batman

Superman Birthright

Watchmen

Astonishing X-Men by Joss Wheden & John Cassaday

Thor: God Of Thunder

Infinity

Throne of Atlantis

V for Vendetta

I'm not sure if there'd be that much Marvel or DC on my list anyway to be honest.

• Nikolai Dante: The Courtship of Jena Makorov
• Nikolai Dante: The Romanov Dynasty
• Watchmen
• Judge Dredd: Tour of Duty
• Judge Dredd: Mandroid
• Judge Dredd: America
• Marshal Law: Fear and Loathing
• ABC Warriors: The Volgan War
• The Ballad of Halo Jones
• Strontium Dog: The Moses Incident
• Strontium Dog: Bitch
• Miracleman: Olympus

I really need to read some more Image thouge, what I've seen so far shows a lot of promise.

I've read a lot of Dark Horse but am not that enamored with their stuff overall, outside of Sin City maybe, but I haven't read that in like 10 years so I'm not sure how I'd feel about it now.

Never liked D.C. Thomson.

Never read Valiant, will check them out eventually.

Uncanny X-Force (the real one)

Green Arrow by Lemire and Sorrentino

IDW TMNT

1 Chew (my absolute fav right now)

2 Walking Dead (not lately though)

3 Saga (so interesting)

4 Preacher

5 Injustice (I really dig it)

Okay, I will stop right there for now. I might have to re-visit this or maybe revise the ordering some... I am hearing that I need to jump on Hawkeye from Marvel so... I'll check back.

Reading Snyders run on Swamp Thing right now, seriously loving that book! I can't remember even why I dropped it...

Saga

TMNT

Y: The Last Man

Ex Machina

The Walking Dead

Invincible

Smallville Season 11

Ultimate Spider-man

Locke & key trumps all

• 52
• Morrison's Batman
• Batman: The Black Mirror
• Blacksad
• Chew
• Green Arrow: Year One
• The Infinite Vacation
• Invincible
• Lex Luthor: Man of Steel
• Scalped
• Shazam!: The Power of Hope
• Moore's Swamp Thing
• Transmetropolitan
• Xombi
• Young Avengers

@queencorp15: I've heard it's a pretty good series, any good jumping on points??

• V for Vendetta
• Batman Hush
• Annihilation
• The Thanos Imperative
• Infinity Gauntlet
• Batman Court of Owls & City of Owls
• Spawn (Until issue #60)
• X-tinction Agenda
• Infinity
• Batman The Killing Joke

• Bendis' Ultimate Spider-Man
• Morrison's Batman
• 52
• Snyder's Tec
• Johns' Flash
• Identity Crisis
• Kingdom Come
• Snyder's Court of Owls
• Jeff Lemire's The Hunt
• Johns' The Trench
• Astonishing X-Men
• Bendis' DD
• Hickman's FF run
• Abnett's GotG
• Morrison's New X-Men
• Claremont's X-Men run
• Invincible
• American Vampire
• Y: The Last Man

@transformers1024: the series is over now but consists of 5 six issue stories with the last story having 8 issues plus 2 one shots, there all in trade so id start with the 1st story Welcome To Lovecraft

I don't get to read comics much but I have every issue of John Jackson Miller's Knights of the Old Republic and it was amazing

1. Runaways -This is what got me into comics

2. iZombie - All the feels ever! <3

3. Earth X - If I didn't have sentimental attachment to the other two I would say that this is the best comic I ever read.

Maus
Flex Mentallo
Miracleman
Watchmen
Garth Ennis's Punisher
All Star Superman
Red Son
Kingdom Come
Daytripper
Y the Last Man

This is in no particular order:

Chuck Dixon's run on Robin, Nightwing, and Detective Comics (I still enjoyed Robin and Nightwing post-Dixon but his work was the best)

Paul Dini and Scott Snyder's runs on Detective Comics

Mark Waid's (and later Geoff Johns') run on The Flash

Geoff Johns' run on Green Lantern

Jeph Loeb's run on Superman\Batman

Ed Brubaker's run on Captain America

Astonishing X-men Whedon
Ultimate Spider-Man Bendis
Thor God of Thunder God Butcher Arc Aaron
Thor Surtur Saga arc Simonson
Thor Alone against the Celestials Defalco
WatchMen
Batman: Year One
David Boring Clowes
Death Ray Clowes
Robert Crumb - My troubles with Women
any Calvin and Hobbes collection
The older Peanuts collections (pre 80's)

I don't want to make too long of a list, so I'll just name a few things.

Batman: R.I.P.

The Long Halloween

The Killing Joke

Green Arrow: Year One

Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters

Watchmen

Superman: Earth One