20 of the best all time comic runs

[ed2962]

I would include the original run of Love and Rockets

[mrbrklyn]

I would include the original run of Love and Rockets

that was really decent. Optic Nerve as well

[CaptCleghorn]

that was really decent. Optic Nerve as well

Both L&R and Optic Nerve are excellent comics which show the diversity and range that non-superhero comics are capable of.

[ed2962]

that was really decent. Optic Nerve as well

I agree. Adrian Tomine doesn't get the credit he deserves.

[mrbrklyn]

I agree. Adrian Tomine doesn't get the credit he deserves.

Adrian Tomine,

that is the guy who's name I can never remember. Really, everything he created was very very fasinating.

[mrbrklyn]

Both L&R and Optic Nerve are excellent comics which show the diversity and range that non-superhero comics are capable of.

Not enough is really said about diversity in comics, and not enough to promote it. Of course, when they had comics on the Newsstand, they were capable of selling a vast array of comics from girlie books, to mysteries, to horror and Super Heros. That has largelyt dired up, but I think you will find a large number of my top 20 as being not from the Superhero genre, and Plantary and American Flagg! have a multifacited identity with regard to genre.

[Mister Mets]

I've been thinking about this. There's way too much material to select if every comic strip and international comic is valid.

There are going to be biases towards books read at a particular time (IE- If I had read Simonson's Thor when I was younger, I might like it as much as I do Ultimate Spider-Man)

But I'll try mine. In this case, I'm defining a run as having at least ten issues and more than one story (to exclude maxi-series like Watchmen.)

In no real order...

Peanuts
Calvin & Hobbes
Lone Wolf & Cub
Carl Barks Duck Stories
Love & Rockets
Claremont/ Byrne Uncanny X-Men
Lee/ Ditko Amazing Spider-Man
Lee/ Kirby Fantastic Four
Stern/ Romita Jr/ co. Amazing Spider-Man
Grant Morrison's New X-Men
Grant Morrison's Batman
Millar/ Hitch's Ultimates/ Ultimates 2
Frank Miller's Daredevil
Neil Gaiman's Sandman
Moore/ Totlebon/ etc. Swamp Thing
Ennis/ Dillon Preacher
Astro City
Bendis/ Bagley Ultimate Spider-Man
Fables
Ex Machina

It's very likely that I'll change this at some point.

[Mister Mets]

Comics I think should have been included in the list.

Kodomo no Jikan by Kaworu Watashiya
Sense by Haruki
Ichigo no Gakkou by Akira Kizuki
Oku-sama wa Joshi Kousei by Hiyoko Kobayashi
Upotte!! by Kitsune Tennouji
Great Teacher Onizuka by Tooru Fujisawa
Card Captor Sakura by CLAMP
Btooom! by Junya Inoue
Gamble Fish by Kazutoshi Yamane and Hiromi Aoyama
Bakuon!! by Mimana Orimoto
Gunslinger Girl by Yu Aida

I'm not familiar with most of those, so thanks for the recommendations.

[mrbrklyn]

I'm not familiar with most of those, so thanks for the recommendations.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion and his opinion is that all great comics come from Japan, or so I understand it.

I agree that one's historical perspective is always influenced by the generation of the author (in this case it was me and I was born in 1963). You try to be broader and over the years I've read quite a bit of patinum age material and comic strips. I am suprised it took so long for the Peanuts to show up in the thread.

FWIW, I am not a fan. Gasoline Alley by King was much more artistic and well thought out, at least in my opinion.

Looking at Fable, I can't tell you how many times I purchased that book and couldn't read it. I don't connect with it at all, and it is not for a lack of trying.

I was trying to read the Dark Chrystal comic that is currently released and it is similarly difficult for me to connect with.

I think that one of the criteria I have for placing a book in the top 20 is that the book needs to have a transgenerational apeal to it, an imortality of some kind.

Ruben

[mrbrklyn]

[mrbrklyn]

Some of the 20 best comic books I have read.

[Momonosuke] Kasshoku Shoujo Complex
[Momonosuke] Hajimete no Renai Hajimete no Kanojo
[Itoyoko] Momoiro Geshuku Utopian (Safety Lodging House Utopian)
[Okada Kou] Sensei to, Watashi to. Ge
[Okada Kou] Chu-Gakusei Nikki
[Onizuka Naoshi] morning view
[Onizuka Naoshi] Emotive
[Tsukiyoshi Hiroki] Shoujo-tachi no Sadism
[Noise] Oppai, Futomomo, Sokoni Short Pants
[Kahlua Suzuki] Suimitsu Shoujo
[Okano Ahiru] Hanasake! Otome Juku Jou (Otome Private Tutoring School)
[DISTANCE] Joshi Lacu! (Girls Lacrosse Club)
[Ryoumoto Hatsumi] Kite! Mite! Ijitte!
[Ryoumoto Hatsumi] Lilliputian Bravery Kanzenban
[Sumiya] Goodbye, Fairy
[Sekiya Asami] YOUR DOG

You can start a thread on Japanese Comics... just to tel you