feebadger

I don't care who enters what next.

JAck Kirby could come back from the dead and enter this one, i don't care.

IcePrince X wins!!!

Okay, so i checked through the previous topics and couldn't find this one, which i was surprised at, so please correct me if someone has already started this thread, but...

What do you consider to be the single greatest issue of a comic book that you have ever read.

To be more specific, i want you to avoid the first comic book you read that really floated your boat, as that one is always a bit special.

But let's go beyond that to the comic that really stands out as the one that made you realise that this is why you read comics and that it is the best medium in the world.

Mine is this one;

Ann Nocenti, one of the most under rated writers in comics.

John Romita Jr art.

Al Williamson inks.

Daredevil. Kingpin. Typhoid Mary. Demons.

Okay, so it was an inferno crossover but i had never read words like it in a comic, never seen art that brilliant and it stood alone as a brilliant tale.

What about you guys? What about you guys?

What do you think is the single best comic book issue you have ever read?

@Timandm: Forrest Gump could make Luke Cage look ignorant, i don't care how many of his own 70's yellow shirts he's burnt.

http://www.comicvine.com/forums/battles/7/luke-cage-vs-luke-cage/634729/#8

Jive talking yellow shirt wearing, tow bar wrapped around head toting Luke Cage picked up Unus the untouchable.

By his force field.

With his bare hands.

Suck on that hipster doofus modern Luke Cage.

@madrid_san said:

@feebadger said:

I'll blab Edgeworth... but it'll cost ya.

lol how much? I am interested also :D

Trenchcoats. Trilby hats. Shady back alley meeting place at stroke of midnight. Meet me there and we'll talk prices gents ;)

I love the possibilities. If handled correctly then this could be an absolutely brilliant idea and story for Cap.

I'll blab Edgeworth... but it'll cost ya.

Great article, Sara.

I think that the subject of politics in comics covers the same ground as politics in any form of art, be it painting, photography, music, sculpture or film. Art is expression and politics, whether it be governmental, societal or personal is a means of expression. We express our opinion and we express how we want to live and that feeling and practice is very close to the creation of art itself so I think that it is entirely logical that art should be the most readily available medium to express political view points.

As to whether it alienates readers all depends, as previously mentioned, on how the political ideal is communicated.

As you say in the article and as Alan Moore says himself, to just present your own political agenda in a story insults the reader and does not an interesting tale make. Same as with any art. Look at Guernica by Picasso. Listen to anything by Rage Against The Machine or Fugazi. Read Animal Farm by George Orwell. All of these types of political expression are also great examples of their art. I can enjoy Animal Farm as a brilliantly written book whilst jumping round the house head banging like a loon to Rage Against The Machine whilst staring in appreciation at a photo of Guernica. I can enjoy those things on a level of art for arts sake, but if I am so inclined, I can also take from these works far more and indulge my political, my reasoning mind as well as my creative one.

As you state with V For Vendetta, it can be enjoyed as simply a great story. Yet if you want to delve deeper, there is a whole other world lurking beneath the surface. I think that all great art leads you to other art; it expands your horizons. Politics in comics doesn’t exclusively have to involve government but can also involve a spiritual politic, an emotional, societal, financial politic. Rebellion is the spirit of politics and what are superheroes but rebels?

When done correctly, with thought and passion, a story is capable of carrying any depth of sub-text whilst still being entertaining.

Done and dusted.

Now excepting bribes for next round of voting (exceedingly large amounts of cash accepted).

See, i think classic Luke wins because current Luke would be so ashamed that he wouldn't want to hit someone dressed like that.

Honestly, if i saw someone dressed like that i would think that he was on day release.