Must Read Comics!

What do you guys think of this list of recommended comics?

what am i missing?

must Read Comics

Must Read Comics!

	1. The Sandman Number 1
	17. The Walking Dead
	20. Kingdom Come
	11. Y: The Last Man
	18. Saga
	10. Preacher 2
	21. All Star Superman
	52. Green Lantern By Geoff Johns Omnibus
	40. Silver Surfer: Requiem 2
	46. Lazarus
	39. Southern Bastards
	38. East of West
	83. Injustice: Gods Among Us
	2. Watchmen These 2-15 can all be considered number ones or close to it. 2-15 are excatly ordered. 2-15 are all NUMBER 2s
	15. Locke & Key
	9. Lucifer This and Sandman are my top 1
	23. Transmetropolitan
	25. Chew
	14. Ex Machina
	28. Runaways
	55. Lone Wolf & Cub Omnibus
	47. The Wicked + The Divine
	88. Volume 1
	62. Translucid
	89. Afterlife With Archie
	77. Infinity Gauntlet
	79. Civil War: Avengers
	84. Irredeemable
	4. V for Vendetta
	32. The Punisher: MAX
	19. Spawn
	85. Born Again
	86. Ultimate Avengers
	59. Fatale
	31. 100 Bullets
	22. Invincible
	16. Astro City
	12. DMZ
	5. Batman: The Killing Joke
	33. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
	6. Fables
	29. The Invisibles
	61. Criminal Macabre Omnibus
	37. 300
	87. Volume 1: Super Human
	35. Superman: Earth One
	7. Hellblazer
	30. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
	3. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
	26. Red Son Superman
	27. Bone
	49. Crisis on Infinite Earths
	53. Sinestro Corps War
	60. Dark Phoenix Saga
	63. Age of Apocalypse
	67. Annihilation
	80. Days of Future Past
	68. X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills
	81. Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt
	58.
	69. Ms. Marvel
	76. Ultimate Spider-Man
	13. Batman: The Long Halloween
	8. Saga of the Swamp Thing
	36. The Authority
	75. Astonishing X-Men
	24. The Books of Magic
	34. Death: The High Cost of Living
	41. X-O Manowar
	42. Nailbiter
	43. Bedlam
	44. Ninjak
	45. Bloodshot
	48. Jack Kirby's New Gods
	50. The Coyote Gospel Animal By grant morrison entire run
	51. JLA: Earth-2
	54. Identity Crisis
	56. Batman: Year One
	57. JLA: Tower of Babel
	64. DC: The New Frontier
	65. The New Teen Titans: The Judas Contract
	66. Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
	70. Powers
	71. Scalped
	72. Hellboy: Seed of Destruction
	73. Rising Stars
	74. JSA: The Golden Age
	82. Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters
	78. Aquaman

List items

• 1. The Sandman

  Number 1

• 2. Watchmen

  These 2-15 can all be considered number ones or close to it.

  2-15 are excatly ordered.

  2-15 are all NUMBER 2s

• 3. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

• 4. V for Vendetta

• 5. Batman: The Killing Joke

• 6. Fables

• 7. Hellblazer

• 8. Saga of the Swamp Thing

• 9. Lucifer

  This and Sandman are my top 1

• 10. Preacher

  2

• 11. Y: The Last Man

• 12. DMZ

• 13. Batman: The Long Halloween

• 14. Ex Machina

• 15. Locke & Key

• 16. Astro City

• 17. The Walking Dead

• 18. Saga

• 19. Spawn

• 20. Kingdom Come

• 21. All Star Superman

• 22. Invincible

• 23. Transmetropolitan

• 24. The Books of Magic

• 25. Chew

• 26. Red Son Superman

• 27. Bone

• 28. Runaways

• 29. The Invisibles

• 30. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

• 31. 100 Bullets

• 32. The Punisher: MAX

• 33. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

• 34. Death: The High Cost of Living

• 35. Superman: Earth One

• 36. The Authority

• 37. 300

• 38. East of West

• 39. Southern Bastards

• 40. Silver Surfer: Requiem

  2

• 41. X-O Manowar

• 42. Nailbiter

• 43. Bedlam

• 44. Ninjak

• 45. Bloodshot

• 46. Lazarus

• 47. The Wicked + The Divine

• 48. Jack Kirby's New Gods

• 49. Crisis on Infinite Earths

• 50. The Coyote Gospel

  Animal By grant morrison entire run

• 51. JLA: Earth-2

• 52. Green Lantern By Geoff Johns Omnibus

• 53. Sinestro Corps War

• 54. Identity Crisis

• 55. Lone Wolf & Cub Omnibus

• 56. Batman: Year One

• 57. JLA: Tower of Babel

• 58.

• 59. Fatale

• 60. Dark Phoenix Saga

• 61. Criminal Macabre Omnibus

• 62. Translucid

• 63. Age of Apocalypse

• 64. DC: The New Frontier

• 65. The New Teen Titans: The Judas Contract

• 66. Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?

• 67. Annihilation

• 68. X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills

• 69. Ms. Marvel

• 70. Powers

• 71. Scalped

• 72. Hellboy: Seed of Destruction

• 73. Rising Stars

• 74. JSA: The Golden Age

• 75. Astonishing X-Men

• 76. Ultimate Spider-Man

• 77. Infinity Gauntlet

• 78. Aquaman

• 79. Civil War: Avengers

• 80. Days of Future Past

• 81. Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt

• 82. Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters

• 83. Injustice: Gods Among Us

• 84. Irredeemable

• 85. Born Again

• 86. Ultimate Avengers

• 87. Volume 1: Super Human

• 88. Volume 1

• 89. Afterlife With Archie

BB

You put it in a non linear order. Thats cool I suppose. The list seems good to me.

how do i make it linear?

@billy_batson said:

BB

cool list.

@skyroid: Ok it was my device that put it in a random order but now its fixed. Berore it had number 6 followed by 53 which was followed by 17 and so on.

no you were right its not in right order, the new one is but the one with pictures, when i click "list" and upload the list its out of order

@skyroid: Thanks much better.

Love seeing Translucid there. Seriously i haven't seen anybody talk about it and it's easily been my favorite comic book last year.

As far as what's missing i would add Planet Hulk, X-Men: Magneto Testament, The Goon, BMB's Daredevil, We3, Harbinger, Heinberg's Young Avengers, Moore's Swamp Thing and Promethea vol.1, Sweet Tooth, Essex County, Persepolis, Maus, Pride of Baghdad, Immortal Iron Fist, Spider-Man: Blue, Geoff John's Shazam vol.1, Scott Pilgrim, Secret Six and Joe Kelly's Deadpool run

All deserving but the ones in bold are certainly must-reads in my book.

shazam and swamp thing are there.

planet hulk was their but i deleted cause i dont know much about it

We3 was brialliant motion picture like comic but it wasnt to my taste,

ill add Promethea and X-Men: Magneto Testament

how good are the underlined ones?

Well i'm surprised Harbinger wasn't listed since it's easily my favorite Valiant comic by far. It's also the second announced Valiant film they are gonna do after Bloodshot and really it's the ones Valiant fans are most excited about.

Planet Hulk is probably the best hulk story ever told and it's one of Marvel's best comics period. To me it's better than a lot of the marvel stuff listed like infinity gauntlet and silver surfer requiem which i loved. Also got adapted into one of the better marvel animated films and if you been following MCU news it is quite simply the most demanded and sought after Marvel film fans want.

BMB's Daredevil run is almost/equal to Frank Miller's run. The debate has been ongoing for years.

The Goon has a lot in common with Chew. Creator-owned comic book with heavy emphasis on comedy and amazing artwork. Another movie project as well this time on kickstarter a long time ago. It's known for having a rabid and loyal fan base. Look up the art i'll probably help in your decision. He also made a one shot called Satan's Sodomy Baby if that helps.

Sweet Tooth and Essex County are Jeff Lemire magnum opuses. Both extremely different thought with Essex being an earlier work with a slice of life in canada but with incredible emotional depth while Sweet Tooth is a post-apocalyptic fantasy books where human/animal hybrids exist and a plague as wiped out most of humanity. If i gotta chose i'd go Essex County for sure thought.

Persepolis and Maus must be on your list mostly for their cultural significance. Persepolis was made into a animated film and it's an autobiography about life in the Iranian revolution and Maus is an incredible life story about the holocaust with the twist being that all the characters are animals so Jews are mice, Germans(nazis) are cats, Poles are pigs, etc. Look up any must read list and Maus is often the first mentioned as it's that important of a story and comic.

Young Avengers is simply the best teen book i've read. Better than Runaways, Young Justice, Teen Titans. It isn't afraid to tackle truly hard topics whilst also reinventing old ones in amazing fashion like Drug use, Destiny, What truly makes a hero/villain, The cost of victory and The price one must pay to do actual good.

Pride of Baghdad is one of BKV finest works and you've seemed to have put all his others up already. It's the real life (fictionalized) story of this pack of lions who get free from the zoo when carpet bombings happened during the Iraq war. The Lions do speak so there is a plot but it's mostly about the artwork (look it up) and the subject matter that makes it special.

Immortal Iron Fist and Deadpool are both there because they are the definitive runs on both characters. Iron Fist is Franction/Aja (Hawkeye) and it simply is the only comic people will tell you to read if interested in the character. While Deadpool is the blueprint of everything he is. The balance between comedy/drama, his rogue's gallery and mostly everything Deadpool is formed and accomplished in this run. It's also the basis for the upcoming film.

Scott Pilgrim is unique in that it's a western manga comic book. Really funny and heartfelt and as most people know it's also responsible for one of the most unique films in the 2000's.

Secret Six is probably the best villain-centric comic books (i didn't read Thunderbolts and the like) It's had a big cult following ever since it's come out and has been brought back by dc recently mostly cause of demand. Cast as been incredible with original and classic rogues like Bane, Deadshot and Mad Hatter all being in the team at some point.

Spider-Man Blue is just one of the better Spider-man stories. You'll probably always seen it on people top ten sp list just like Hush always is for Batman. Heartfelt, nostalgic and fun it also is a love letter to Gwen Stacy and her importance in his life.

@pinecone: I'll do some editing tomorrow.

But you should list me your top 10 favorite comics.

Also what comic on the list would you have removed?

In going to read harbinger is their something I'm supposed to read before harbinger or just jump in?

Judge Dredd: America, Judge Dredd: Necropolis, Wolverine: Weapon X, The Ballad of Halo Jones, Supreme: The Story of the Year, The Song of the Surfer, Charley's War, When the Wind Blows, I Kill Giants, X-Men: From the Ashes, Spider-Man: The Death of Gwen Stacy, Batman: Strange Apparitions, The Incal, Superman: For the Man who has Everything, Blacksad, Marshal Law: Fear and Loathing, Valerian and Laureline: Welcome to Alflolol, Asterix in Britain, Marvelman: Olympus, Cerebus, The Nikopol Trilogy.

http://www.comicvine.com/forums/gen-discussion-1/1001-comics-you-must-read-1631760/

I did a simplified list of the entries from the more famous companies in the last post

@silent_bomber: Nice I bookmarked it

Death of Gwen Stacy was on the list but I deleted it, was it good?

Necropolis and superman: For the man who had everything still be added,I forgot about them

@skyroid: I'd remove Bloodshot cause to me it was the second weakest Valiant comic. Ninjak, Nailbitter and Wicked+Divine cause it's just to early to tell. Spawn never read it but nobody talks about it anymore. Superman Earth One just isn't special for me. it's just a good superman story but nothing more.

1- Locke and Key
2- Planet Hulk

3-Watchmen

4- Ultimate Spider-Man

5- Maus

6- Bone

7- G.L.A (Great Lakes Avengers)

8- Young Avengers

9- Translucid

10- Invincible

Too early to tell but if it continues in quality they will definitely be on here: Afterlife with Archie, Southern Bastards and Moore's Swamp Thing (going through it right now). Also consistency is key, longer amazing runs like Green Lantern and Daredevil would be on the list if it weren't for the fact that some arcs were weaker or it just faltered in quality (gl everything during and post War of the GL's). Also weird ones like Owly and Pet Avengers are favorites of mine but they are also all age books that just don't gel well with known classics even thought to me they are equally as good.

I would say so. It is one of the better examples of the "Spider-Man loses his cool" trope, it also has the death of a major character (which is sometimes said to have kick-started the "Bronze Age"), and it has some memorable scene's concerning Norman Osborne's paranoid Schizophrenia, as well as a major turning point for Mary Jane's character development.

52 is also a must, just thought it now. Best weekly comic (marvel/dc) has done and it mostly shone a light on the b-c class heroes of the DCU like Steel, Animal Man, Booster Gold, The Question and Ralph Dipny who's story is a direct follow up to identity crisis and man is it powerful.

@pinecone: I heard it's great, I might add it

Grant Morrison's JLA run.

What about Thor god of thunder

@killerravens: @shadowswordmaster:

Jla was their but I replaced it with Jla tower of Babel. But I mine the whole run.

I haven't had good time with Thor, every Thor book I read was crap. I'll give Thor god of thunder to see if it's good

@skyroid: what Thor's have you read

@killerravens: None that I could or would remember.

@skyroid: god of thunder is awesome especially the first 11 issues good story great art an a awesome villain

@billy_batson: Been wanting to read Stuck Rubber Baby for years. Never gotten around to it.

@killerravens: I'll give it a try, can you tell me what comic god of thunder is similar to and what way?

Like

invincible is similar to The walking dead, but more bloodier and about superheroes instead of zombies, with by same author

@skyroid:

Lack of Daredevil: Man Without Fear saddens me :'(

I guess you got Born Again on there, so that's fine :)

Also, gonna put my few cents in here on my favorites:

-Madman by Mike Allred (strange, but a good strange)

-The Deadpool Killogy by Cullen Bunn (i.e. Marvel Universe, Killustrated, etc. Enjoyable reads)

-Blackest Night by Geoff Johns

-Flashpoint (wasn't sure if this was on your list or not) by Geoff Johns

-Marvel Zombies by Various Authors (interesting and fun series)

-Axe Cop by Malachai and Ethan Nicolle (Nothing else like this series)

-Tank Girl by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin (definitely NOT everyone's cup of tea, but interesting regardless)

I'm sure there's more, but I'm too tired to name anything else

I am not really sure what to compare it to Jason aaron writes it an if your not a big Thor guy I would say this is the one to read the first arc is called god butcher an it is epic

Here are other lists:

http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2011/08/the-top-115/

http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/tag/best-comics-poll-lists/

I've got it signed :D

BB

@billy_batson: That's rad. You must dig the story quite a bit then?

@longbowhunter:

Yeah, it's an interesting look at history. Certainly worth getting.

BB

@billy_batson: I'll check out the list thanks

I read through the top 10s, there was an acceptable amount of 2000AD :D

Seems like lots of agreement between this and the "1001" book. Lots of EC comics recommended by people, always nice to see that. Surprised to see how often the Alec stories were brought up (I have a volume of those somewhere, I really should read it lol), also surprised to see Dr Slump mentioned by a few people, I think I will try to check that out, I need to check out Elfquest as well I think.

Moebius is a great artist but I don't think I've enjoyed any stories he's personally written, I know I'm in the minority there though lol

Did you ever check out god of thunder