*Main Post* 30 Days of Scans_Daily: Day 21: Favorite Comics Event?

[kingrockwell]

Hey folks, today we're asking what your favorite event is.



52 was really something special, in both form and content. A year-long weekly set in real-time, it pulled the spotlight off the big stars of the DCU and gave a few underdogs their chances to shine. It made Booster Gold a big deal again, introduced Batwoman to the world, and, perhaps most importantly, told the story of how the no-face was handed off from Vic Sage to Renee Montoya. There's story fodder here that's still being explored today, while others that unfortunately haven't gotten a proper look yet (dc where are my ghost detective dibnys they need to have their own book).

And beyond the compelling story, the process of how the various story beats were juggled between the four writers, Greg Rucka, Grant Morrison, Mark Waid and Geoff Johns, is pretty fascinating on its own. The commentary in the trade collections is invaluable stuff. The art could be a little iffy at times and uses guys like Joe Bennett and Eddie Barrows a little more often than I would've liked, but every now and then you get someone like Chris Batista, Drew Johnson or Darick Robertson, and the whole thing becomes a little more worth it. And the covers by J.G. Jones are gorgeously designed and rendered!

So how about you, what comics event really got your attention?

Comments

[newnumber6]

Hmmm... probably a toss-up between two 80s event. One was "The Pitt", from New Universe, where the main character of one book accidentally turned Pittsburgh into a several-mile-wide crater and changed the entirely world forever. Other books' cast went to investigate the Pitt, or were caught up in the Draft when the US believed the Pitt was caused by foreign paranormals and started drafting their own force to fight them, pretty much every book in the line was affected by it.

The other one was Inferno. It's hard to say I like the whole of event because some of the X-books were kinda 'meh' with it, but I loved the idea of a demon invasion of the city, lovedt he New Mutants at the time and the conclusion to Illyana's story, and loved how other books temporarily had to deal with NYC going crazy with demons. Even Power Pack fought demons and had to reveal their powers to their parents because of it. I get a big kick out of the fact that the current New Mutants run is directly refernecing the Inferno period of history.

[newnumber6]

Honorable mention on the DC side goes to Cataclysm/No Man's Land, which I'm including as one big event. I loved the idea of it, even if it's a little silly on the face of it (declaring it uninhabitable and saying anyone who wants to stay is on their own... okay, MAYBE. destroying the bridges and deciding that anyone who decided to stay can never come out? Uhm... WTF?), but once you got past that it was quite a neat idea to explore.

[neuhallidae]

Inferno gave me nightmares the first time I read it. That bit with the elevator, huagh.