All Time Favorite Run, Story Arc or Event?

[Tigereyes]

1) Doctor Strange by Lee and Ditko
2) Green Arrow by Grell
3) Wildcats 3.0 by Casey
4) Black Panther by Priest
5) Ruse by Waid and Guice
6) Legion by Abnett and Lanning
7) Amazing Spider-Man by Lee
8) Gotham Central
9) Captain America by Brubaker
10) Secret Six by Simone

[bearman]

Spider Man by Lee and Ditko
Thor by Simonson
Legion of Super Heroes by GiffBaum
Grayson by King and Seeley
Generation X for the first three years
Justice League by Giffen
Batman and Robin by Morrison
Doom Patrol by Morrison
Justice League by Giffen

[MRP]

Ask me this every day and the answer may change slightly, so listing the suspects that could be the answer on any given day.

The Incal by Jodo & Giraud (Moebius)
The 6 Voyages of Lone Sloane by Philippe Druillet
Doctor Strange by Ditko & Lee
Bone by Jeff Smith
Planetary by Ellis & Cassady
The Parker adaptations by Darwyn Cooke
The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke
Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser by Chaykin & Mignola
Conan by Busiek & Nord
The Fourth World by Kirby
Sleeper by Brubaker & Phillips
Finder by Carla Speed McNeil
Sandman by Neil Gaiman & company
Metamorphosis Odyssey by Jim Starlin
The Spirit by Will Eisner (pretty much anything by Eisner really)
Fax from Sarajevo by Joe Kubert (pretty much anything by Kubert too)
Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai
Manhunter by Goodwin & Simonson
Spectre by Ostrander & Mandrake
Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond (strips not comic books but still one of my favorite comics ever)


If I had to pick one of those today, right at this moment, Bone, but who knows what tomorrow may bring for an answer.
-M

[Gurz]

everything i would recommend already recommended... Except

Iron Fist by Brubaker&Fraction&Aja
Starman by James Robinson&Tony Harris

[Darkseid Is]

The Dark Knight Returns is the best comic book ever written and drawn by a human being.
All-Star Superman is probably second best.
On that note we can do down the Miller and Morrison list. Miller on Daredevil is one of the first things I ever read and it's still excellent today. Morrison's run on Batman is beautiful all the way through. Also Morrison on Animal Man and JLA.

Then there is Kirby. I think the Fourth World stuff and Fantastic Four are the best. Grab up as much of that as you can. Read it in order, read it out of order, just grab up what you can and enjoy the art and the ideas and stories.

[Darkseid Is]

Spider Man by Lee and Ditko
Thor by Simonson
Legion of Super Heroes by GiffBaum
Grayson by King and Seeley
Generation X for the first three years
Justice League by Giffen
Batman and Robin by Morrison
Doom Patrol by Morrison
Justice League by Giffen

So good you had to mention it twice.

And it IS that good. One I should have mentioned.

[babyblob]

My all time favorite story line is the elseworlds tale batman Superman generations. Just volume one. Volume 2 was ok but number three was awful.

[EmeraldGladiator]

Sinestro Corps War
Green Lantern Rebirth
Great Darkness Saga
Thor Simonson
JSA Goyer/Johns
Crisis on Infinite Earth's
Infinity Guantlet+ Silver Surfer lead up
Fantastic Four Lee Kirby
Spiderman Lee and Ditko
Hulk Peter David
Edit
Add the Negation War by Crossgen, it might be my favorite unfinished work since the company went under before it was done. I have asked those associated with it on various boards but never found out how it was going to end

[K7P5V]

Most of my favorites have been mentioned. So, I'll just add those that are missing.

Events
-The Avengers/Defenders War
-Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt
-Avengers: The Nefaria Protocols

Story Arcs
-Marvel Two-In-One: The Project Pegasus Saga
-Captain America: Operation Rebirth
-Captain America: Man without a Country
-Avengers: Ultron Unlimited

Runs
-Jerry Ordway's The Power of SHAZAM!
-Perez/Wolfman's Teen Titans
-Gerber/Colan's Howard the Duck
-Busiek/Bagley's Thunderbolts
-Fabian Nicieza's Thunderbolts

[Gurz]

Runs:
Silver Surfer by Stan Lee
Teen Titans by Geoff Johns
Gotham Central by Ed Brubaker & Greg Rucka
All Star Superman by Grant Morrison
Iron Fist by Brubaker&Fraction
Daredevil by Brian Michael Bendis
Invincible by Robert Kirkman
52 Weeks by Verious: Waid, Johns, Morrison etc. (everyone worked on it, i guess.)
Marvel Knight Punisher by Grath Ennis
Starman by James Robinson

Event:
Infınıte Crisis (with all of the side stories, they were all amazing)

[deadboy80]

God, so many. Well one of my all time favorites for DC WAS/IS Millennium crossover another was Zero Hour. Any and all of the Alan Grant/Norm Breyfogel Batman stuff. Many, many more from DC. Marvel, well, let's see. Loved the original and 90's Clone Saga. My absolute favorite spider-charecter is Ben Reilly. Loved the Midnight Sons line from marvel in the early 90's. The Age of Apocalypse was a great X-men run. Fatal attractions of course, had left me with my jaw on the ground.
I always enjoy rereading Spectacular spiderman 200, the Death of Harry Osbourne, very touching ending.

[hyped78]

Based on some of the comments I have just ordered Avengers Forever. Good timing too, because I already own Maximum Security and was going to read it soon. This way I will read AF first and then MS.

Some of my favorites in Marvel are Secret Wars I (the original), Infinity Gauntlet (including the build up), Captain America's Winter Soldier storyline.

Some of my favorites in DC are Superman Red Son, Batman The Long Halloween, Identity Crisis + Infinite Crisis.

[Adset]

Keeping it to superheroes...

My lord this is hard. I keep coming up with something then immediately remembering something different and changing my mind. I'm going to answer with whatever pops into my head first without changing it, meaning I probably won't even agree with my own list in about 10 minutes after posting:

Event: My favorite event will probably always be DC One Million. Straight up wacky brilliance. I bought the Omnibus awhile back... not every #1,000,000 issue was a winner, obviously, but as a whole, it's solid all the way through. Also, I long for the days when you could get a linewide event over and done with in a single month.

Favorite Run: Busiek's Avengers. Throw in Avengers Forever, too. I grew up loathing the Avengers (I came in during the Sersi/Tank Top Giant Man era, and I could never get into it). I thought Heroes Reborn was my ticket to jump in on the ground floor until I read the first issue and a bit of me died. But I was all in on Marvel's Heroes Return initiative, and boy did it pay off. Straight up brilliance.

Favorite Book: I'll always love Flash volume 2 because it's so consistently excellent over such a long period of time -- Baron/Messner-Loebs, Waid, (briefly Morrison/Millar), back to Waid, then Johns. That's a pretty stout 225 issues right there, and it's probably my favorite long-form re-read. I can spend a month pouring through the whole volume without it dipping much*.

*Ok, I usually stop after Johns leaves. What comes after isn't great. But #1-225, I tell ya. Gold. Outside of probably Hellblazer, I can't think of another series I've read that's so consistently good for so long.

Favorite Mini-Series: The Golden Age. I don't feel this is talked about enough. Everyone in the mid-90s was Kingdom Come this, Kingdom Come that, and I'm over in the corner reading The Golden Age like the seminal work of the decade that it is.

[H-E-D]

At Marvel? Kieron Gillen's Journey into Mystery, Brian K Vaughn's Runaways, Greg Rucka's Punisher, Jonathan Hickman's Secret Warriors, Brian Michael Bendis's Ultimate Spider-Man, Warren Ellis's Thunderbolts. There's a few more I'd add if I truncate them: Rick Remender's Uncanny X-Force, ending with the Dark Angel Saga, for one. Mark Waid's Daredevil, ending... before he moved to SF, I think.

[Squall Leonhart]

Here is my Marvel list, because that is what I mostly read:

1. Englehart Silver Surfer through Starlin Silver Surfer through Infinity Gauntlet/War/Crusade and through SS in the 90s
2. Chris Claremont Uncanny X-Men 94-275 plus X-Men 1-3
3. Annihilation/Annihilation Conquest/War of Kings and DnA Guardians of the Galaxy
4. Uncanny X-Force
5. Simonson Thor
6. Busiek/Perez Avengers
7. Hickman New Avengers/Avengers
8. Lee/Ditko Amazing Spider-Man
9. 90's X-men post Claremont to around 2000
10.Fantastic Four by Lee/Kirby