Your favorite DC book or storyline by your favorite writer or artist

[caj]

What is your favorite DC comic book or storyline by your favorite writer or artist?

[DrNewGod]

I can't say that I have A Single favorite, but I always loved Murphy Anderson's work on Hawkman, and I adored the story introducing IQ in Mystery in Space 87. I read it as a reprint (a back up in [I think] one of the 100-page Action Comics). It was my introduction to Hawkman outside the JLA reprints I'd seen, and I loved the husband/wife equal partners thing from the get go. IMO, Silver Age Hawkman/woman at their best.

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[MRP]

DC New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke

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[Adekis]

Definitely Starman by Robinson.

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Love this run. Too bad DC apparently stopped making the books for it and I have to sit here and be satisfied with only two paperback omnibuses!



Second place is probably New Frontier, but I will say I think you need to both read the book and watch the movie, and probably watch the movie first, since I got pretty bored trying to read it the first time, waiting for the plot to show up. Once I knew what the plot was, from the movie, the book got a lot better.

The second time I read New Frontier, I not only finished it, not only loved it, but felt like I walked away with a better sense of what it meant to be an American - and I've only been one all my life! It's hard to articulate exactly what I learned about America from New Frontier, but I think Darwyn Cooke may have written the Great American Graphic Novel, to coin a phrase.



Third place probably goes to Action Comics vol 2 by Grant Morrison and Sholly Fisch, among several amazing artists.

This is actually a run where the ideas work better than the execution a lot of the time, but I think it's a blueprint for a nearly perfect Superman. Too bad DC either didn't know what they had or just decided they didn't like it, because that blueprint never really got followed. Damn shame.

[jb681131]

What is your favorite DC comic book or storyline by your favorite writer or artist?

Very hard to say because there are so many great reads from DC.

But I'll say above all:

• storywise - 100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello
• artwise - Roots of the Swamp Thing by Bernie Wrightson (the Black & White version).
• with a great art and story - DC: The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke

[MadFacedKid]

I liked Justice by Alex Ross

[Sutekh]

It changes daily, as I am fickle, but today I'm gonna say Superboy's Legion, by Mark Farmer and Alan Davis.

It's short and sweet, and the art is just refreshingly upbeat, as is typical for Alan Davis. It's just got a hopeful idealistic superheroic vibe to it, that's why I came to comics in the first place, and why I stick around.

[DrNewGod]

I liked Justice by Alex Ross

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Why didn't I remember that?

[scribbleMind]

Morrison's Doom Patrol. When I finished that book it felt immediately nostalgic even though I had never read it before and I was in my early 20s.

[jb681131]

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Why didn't I remember that?

Because maybe it didn't impress you that much.
I find it way overrated, in my opinion.

[Restingvoice]

Robin Son of Batman by Patrick Gleason

[j9ac9k]

It's tough - so many of these artists/writers have done so many good things, but I'll say...

Frank Miller: The Dark Knight Returns

Walt Simonson: Orion

Darwyn Cooke: Before Watchmen: Minutemen

Keith Giffen: Legion of Superheroes (the first dozen or so issues of the 5YL run)

Geoff Johns & Iven Reis (both of them): The Sinestro Corps War

[sifighter]

Off the top of my head.

Geoff Johns- Green Lantern:Rebirth
Tom Taylor- The Injustice series
Peter Tomasi- Super Sons

[DrNewGod]

Because maybe it didn't impress you that much.
I find it way overrated, in my opinion.

Misdiagnosis. Our mileage varies.

[DrNewGod]

I suppose my favorite run in an on-going is Wolfman and Perez' "Judas Contract" from The New Teen Titans.