I think JLA/Titans The Technis Imperative needs more love. Such an underrated classic.
I think JLA/Titans The Technis Imperative needs more love. Such an underrated classic.
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As I said above, I think TDKR, Year One and Watchmen do sit a bit above everything else, but other contenders (DC only) are:
Swamp Thing (Moore's run)
Animal Man (Morrison's run)
The Enigma
Preacher
Transmetropolitan
Ellis's Stormwatch
Sleeper
Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow
Superman: Secret Identity
Flex Mentallo
WE3
Red Son
Let's rephrase the question as "Good books that are worth your time and money" rather than "Good as Watchmen," which is sui generis.
Superman: Secret Identity by Busiek and Immomen.
Astro City by Busiek and Anderson (technically not DC)
All-Star Superman by Morrison and Quitely (but it will make more sense if you read Morrison's JLA and DC One Million first)
Swamp Thing by Moore with Bissette, Totleben, and Veitch
Top Ten by Moore, Ha, and Cannon (not DC)
The Sherriff of Babylon by King and Gerads
Dropsie Avenue by Will Eisner (not DC)
Moore's V for Vendetta
Gaiman's Sandman
Ellis' Planetary
O'Neil's The Question
Timm/Dini's Mad Love
Loeb's The Long Halloween
Lopez/Conway's Cinder & Ashe
For The Man Who Has Everything!
Gotham by Gaslight
Master of the Future
The Great Darkness Saga
Cooke's The New Frontier
Lots of good ones already mentioned.
Green Arrow: The Long Bow Hunters
ranks right there with the best of them to me. Mike Grell's GA run was my favorite "adult" comic back in the day.
Batman - Daredevil
Enigma? I semi enjoyed it but lot of people seem to really rate it
The extremist - long time since I've read it but remember it being a crazy book at the time. Best costume in comics if nothing else and some nice Ted mckeever art.
And enemy ace: war idyll. I really rate that book as one of DC's very best books. It was not what I was expecting but it's truly superb in my opinion.
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A little know gem is OMAC (1991, I think) by John Byrne. Byrne is full author and works on black and white. No color. Really an interesting work.
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The Hawkworld mini, despite screwing up Katar Hol's continuity, was awesome. I don't know if it's Watchmen/TDKR level, but it's really, really good.
I can never say enough about the Goodwin/Simonson Manhunter series.
I always liked the original Black Orchid series starting in Adventure Comics and moving into the back of the Phantom Stranger. The later permutations of her (even the Gaiman version) never clicked with me. The Gaiman version was good, but to me it was not Black Orchid.
The Denny O'Neil/Mike Kaluta Shadow series was fabulous.
I liked the Tim Truman Hawkworld mini series. If only they retained it as back story for Hawkman it would have been perfect. But they continued it into a Hawkman book, which blew continuity to bits and I think ruined Hawkman for decades. But standing alone the mini series was great.
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And Kyle Baker's Plastic Man was superb.
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