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What would you choose as your favorite 5 comic titles/storylines/issues?

Bwa!

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I’m still listening to the episode and writing about it.  Its like I’m liveblogging.

Here were CBQ’s “top 5” lists:

Steve:

5.  League of extraordinary Gentlemen
4.  Dr. Strange: The Oath
3.  Planetary
2.  Justice Society of America
1.  Baker Street

Lindsay:

5.  Uncanny X-Men: Dark Phoenix saga
4. X-men crossover: Legion Quest
3. Rogue mini-series
2.  X-Men #45
1.  Strangers in Paradise, #51-53

Eric:

5.  Shade the Changing Man, vol. 1
4.  Inhumans, vol. 2
3.  X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills
2.  Earth X
1.  Ex Machina

Brett:

5.  X-Men: e is for extinction
4.  Uncanny X-Men #251  
3.  Watchmen
2.  Arkham Asylum
1.  The Invisibles

I have a problem with Baker Street.

I bought it because I heard good things about the writing and so forth but I was quite upset when they unveiled the serial killer to be a trans person.  They way they did it was very sensationalistic.  Very typical crazed, killer, trans stereotype. 

That ruined the story for me.

And damn you Brett for getting me all interested in something else w/ the Invisibles!!  Jeez you boys are gonna make me go broke!  But it’s fun!  Who needs food?!  I wanted to lose weight anyways. 

Steve, still thinking about Baker Street…sounds so interesting and so out of left field for you to pick that up.  So I would think if *you* like it, it must be pretty damn good!

The cover artist for the Buffy comics is Jo Chen! She is freakin awesome. She does the covers for Runaways as well.

Makes sense…I love those covers as well.  They make me want to pick up Runaways besides BKV…

Speaking of BKV, your pics from NYCC on your myspace are great Jane!!  Love ya showin’ some CBQ pride!!

5. Negation and Negation War
4. Other World (needs to get finished, Phil)
3. JLA: WW3
2. Invisibles
1. The Authority Volumes 1 & 2

Yay, an imprint-balanced episode!

(Very enjoyable listening, as usual.)

Your Pal Eric - 04 March 2007 09:21 AM

Here were CBQ’s “top 5” lists:...

I should have checked out this thread before I listened.  There I am, carefully writing them all down so that I can either comment on them or actually look them up and read them—and they were here all along!  Oh me of little faith.

I’m totally on board with the Maus runner-up; that’s one of the two books that I’ll give to non-comics fans, along, now, with Pride of Baghdad, to show them the power that a graphic medium can provide.  Can’t recommend it enough; it did win a freakin’ Pulitzer, after all.  The only reason I wouldn’t put it in my top 5 is because other issues had more personal resonance.

My top 5:

5. The Walt Simonson run on The Mighty Thor—an epic arc of Norse mythology, and the only issues I’ve kept since my college years
4. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns—brilliant, and my first view of a well-done dark sensibility in comics
3. The Sandman—really taught me that comics could sometimes be more than guys in tights
2. Young Avengers, Season 1—largely responsible for getting me back into comics
1. Cardcaptor Sakura—yes, it’s anime/manga, but they’re still graphic novels and they’re my primary comfort food.

HowTaoBrownCow - 04 March 2007 01:41 PM

5. The Walt Simonson run on The Mighty Thor—an epic arc of Norse mythology, and the only issues I’ve kept since my college years.

This was the only Marvel comic I bought at the time.  I absolutely adored it.  I’ve always been a huge Simonson fan; his Hawkman art in a recent JSA CLASSIFIED was as good as that period’s.

Hey, Dale!  I was just noticing that this forum has Sticky topics.  Are those reserved for discussing your works?  ;-)

HowTaoBrownCow - 04 March 2007 03:09 PM

Hey, Dale!  I was just noticing that this forum has Sticky topics.  Are those reserved for discussing your works?  ;-)

I don’t think so…  I gave up bothering the Zeus folks about carrying STICKY.  (But I will bother them about MANLY when it comes out next fall.)

PS—Crossroads Bookstore in Dallas DOES carry STICKY.  Indie bookstores rule, comic stores drool! 

http://www.dallascrossroads.com/crossroads_market.htm

Hey, everyone.  My name is Brian, I’m in Canada, and here are my top 5.

5.  Alan Moores Swamp Thing
4.  Starman
3.  Hitman
2. DMZ
1.  Transmetropolitan

Of course, these are my top 5 for today, and they will likely have changed tomorrow.  And now I need to get back to my homework.  Later!

Well I certainly forgot to list a top 5. Does manga count? Can we include manga? I’ve got a manga title in here.

In no particular order:

Top 10: The Forty-Niners
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Y: The Last Man
We3
Runaways

Is it bad? Is there not enough Grant Morrison? Is it the wrong Grant Morrison book? hahaha

I love lists.  Lists are good.  Animals don’t make lists.  Except, koalas, and I don’t want to know what that’s about.  My 5:

5.  Shade The Changing Man (Vertigo)
4.  Doom Patrol (Vertigo)
3.  Inhumans (Vol. 2)
2.  Swamp Thing (Vertigo)
1.  Miracleman

C.