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scans_dailySlightly later posting due to it being the weekend and a LOT of soul searching going on for this one.
Again, this is a VERY tough one for me because I'm such an old fart and read quite so many comics during the process of becoming an old fart..
As anyone who has seen me in a bookshop will tell you "Just pick one you like" is a series of words I understand the individual meanings of, but just don't quite comprehend when strung together into a sentence.
Many runs have left an impression on me, often associated with the time of my life I was reading them... the New Teen Titans, the Claremont New Mutants and the Levitz/Giffen Legion during my adolescence having a place in my heart... amongst other things.
The "New Universe" gave us the DP7 which was a reinvention of the "Comics that are like the world outside your window" that was Marvel's claim in the 1960's...
The Mark Gruenwald and Paul Ryan Quasar for being a more entertaiing spin on Green Lantern than Green Lantern had been in quite some time, and with a much bigger
The Morrison Doom Patrol as I was starting to make my way in the world, when I was reassured that the world was just as nuts to everyone else and there were worse things to be than "weird".
At the other end of the scale, the Mike W Barr/Alan Davis Detective Comics run is my comfort food of comics... Batman being a detective, Jason being adorable, and villains being... well villains, but not in a "Beat the Bodycount" sort of a way...
"
The post-Zero Hour Legion and James Robinson's Starman series were proof that the 90's were all grimdark men and buttfloss clad women.
Astro City I can just read and re-read because it is, essentially, timeless. Ditto most of the BTAS/JLU spinoff comics...
The Karl and Barbara Kesel "Hawk and Dove" series, Dustin Nguyen's "L'il Gotham"
One which does stand out is what has become known as the X-Men's "Asgardian Saga", which covered the New Mutants Special Edition #1, X-Men Annual #9 and then is more or less followed up in the X-Men Alpha Flight
It was the New Mutants and X-Men operating in Asgard, so wasn't quite so mired in social commentary, with a vast cast being written by Chris Claremont at the top of his game, and everyone being drawn by Art Adams didn't hurt ANYONE!
The X-Men/Alpha Flight two-part series was drawn by Paul Smith, which worked quite nicely too.
Just be thankful that "Favourite Single Issue" wasn't the theme for today, because I'd still be listing them at New Years... (Admittedly a lot of those might include an imperilled sidekick, so I'm not saying it wouldn't be a FUN list, just a long one....)
Hopefully all you lovely posters out there will be able to focus a little better than me in picking their favourite Storyline/Book!
Again, this is a VERY tough one for me because I'm such an old fart and read quite so many comics during the process of becoming an old fart..
As anyone who has seen me in a bookshop will tell you "Just pick one you like" is a series of words I understand the individual meanings of, but just don't quite comprehend when strung together into a sentence.
Many runs have left an impression on me, often associated with the time of my life I was reading them... the New Teen Titans, the Claremont New Mutants and the Levitz/Giffen Legion during my adolescence having a place in my heart... amongst other things.
The "New Universe" gave us the DP7 which was a reinvention of the "Comics that are like the world outside your window" that was Marvel's claim in the 1960's...
The Mark Gruenwald and Paul Ryan Quasar for being a more entertaiing spin on Green Lantern than Green Lantern had been in quite some time, and with a much bigger
The Morrison Doom Patrol as I was starting to make my way in the world, when I was reassured that the world was just as nuts to everyone else and there were worse things to be than "weird".
At the other end of the scale, the Mike W Barr/Alan Davis Detective Comics run is my comfort food of comics... Batman being a detective, Jason being adorable, and villains being... well villains, but not in a "Beat the Bodycount" sort of a way...
"
The post-Zero Hour Legion and James Robinson's Starman series were proof that the 90's were all grimdark men and buttfloss clad women.
Astro City I can just read and re-read because it is, essentially, timeless. Ditto most of the BTAS/JLU spinoff comics...
The Karl and Barbara Kesel "Hawk and Dove" series, Dustin Nguyen's "L'il Gotham"
One which does stand out is what has become known as the X-Men's "Asgardian Saga", which covered the New Mutants Special Edition #1, X-Men Annual #9 and then is more or less followed up in the X-Men Alpha Flight
It was the New Mutants and X-Men operating in Asgard, so wasn't quite so mired in social commentary, with a vast cast being written by Chris Claremont at the top of his game, and everyone being drawn by Art Adams didn't hurt ANYONE!
The X-Men/Alpha Flight two-part series was drawn by Paul Smith, which worked quite nicely too.
Just be thankful that "Favourite Single Issue" wasn't the theme for today, because I'd still be listing them at New Years... (Admittedly a lot of those might include an imperilled sidekick, so I'm not saying it wouldn't be a FUN list, just a long one....)
Hopefully all you lovely posters out there will be able to focus a little better than me in picking their favourite Storyline/Book!
Tags:
- char: batman/bruce wayne,
- char: quasar/wendell vaughn,
- char: robin/red hood/jason todd,
- creator: alan davis,
- creator: art adams,
- creator: chris claremont,
- creator: grant morrison,
- creator: mark gruenwald,
- creator: mike w. barr,
- group: doom patrol,
- group: new mutants,
- group: x-men,
- series: 31 days of scans,
- title: doom patrol,
- title: dp7,
- title: quasar
