Looking through this thread I see so many of my favourite comics that I'd read on a Saturday morning. My mum would say 'That's it' but I always knew there'd be another hidden somewhere if I pleaded enough.
I'm glad to see 'Cor' get a mention. I was starting to think I'd imagined it.
Hellblazer
Watchmen
Sandman
The Walking Dead
Preacher
The Invisibles
Lucifer
The Unwritten
Animal Man
Transmetropolitan
Difficult to say if they are my top 10 of all time, so many others I could mention, so many great stories in 2000AD, also Tintin and Asterix probably started my comic obsession.
Loved Faceache, and his 'scrunging.' I also liked Leopard From Lime Street, about the boy superhero with cat-like abilities. I also liked that strip about a boy who had a group of humanoid aliens, each only a few inches high, living in his bedroom. They were the crew of a spacecraft that had crashed and been found by the boy, and the boy was taking care of them until such time as they could fix their spacecraft or be rescued.
Loved Faceache, and his 'scrunging.' I also liked Leopard From Lime Street, about the boy superhero with cat-like abilities. I also liked that strip about a boy who had a group of humanoid aliens, each only a few inches high, living in his bedroom. They were the crew of a spacecraft that had crashed and been found by the boy, and the boy was taking care of them until such time as they could fix their spacecraft or be rescued.
LOL that was funny! I think the artist/creator of Buster got the idea from Andy Capp if memory serves me right.
Tintin and Asterix probably started my comic obsession.
Getting Tintin and the Black Island from our library when I was four or five set me off on a love affair with Tintin, that lasted until I started secondary school.
Tintin was supposed to be a journalist, so it was curious how you never saw him taking shorthand notes of situations, or interviewing anyone, writing or submitting copy. Nor did we ever see him dealing with editors, or ever hear any details of whether he worked for a particular paper, or was freelance, or ever see any of his experiences published in a finished article. Not only did we never see any of these things, we also never heard him allude to them at second hand. Odd that, wasn't it? Still, the target audience being quite young, I suppose they thought it would bog down the story somewhat.
Only started 'catching up last year.... but so far:
The Demon Bear Saga - New Mutants (Bill Siekienwicz)
Grant Morrison's 'New X-Men'
Watchmen
The Dark Phoenix Saga - Uncanny X-Men (Chris Claremont)
V is for Vendatta
Wolverine volume 2 - (Larry Hama's run)
Deadpool volume 1 - (1997 - Joe Kelly)
Onslaught Marvel Universe [End of the Era of Heroes]
The Age of Apolcalypse (X-Men books crossover)
Frank Miller's 'Elektra'
My updated list as I start my third year of reading and re-reading comic books as an adult:
Powers - Bendis
Watchmen - A Moore
Dark Knight Returns - Miller
The Boys - Ennis
The Demon Bear Saga - New Mutants (Bill Siekienwicz)
Dark Avengers / New Avengers / Avengers / Alias - Bendis
All Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder - Miller
Chronicles of Wormwood - Ennis
The Dark Phoenix Saga - Uncanny X-Men (Chris Claremont)
Magneto: Testament - Pak
I've read Maus, Morrison's JLA, Preacher, Transmetropolitan, Sin City, Ultimate Spider Man, Bendis' Daredevil, Batman: Year One, Crisis on Multiple Earths, ID Crisis, Y the Last Man, Hellblazer, Fables, etc but they simply didn't make my top ten
1. Marvel UK Zoids
2. Marvel UK Action Force
3. Mid to late 80's Spider-man
4. The Dark Knight Returns
5. Batman Year One
6. John Byrnes run on Fantastic Four
7. Preacher
8. The Grant/Breyfogle runs on detective comics in the late 80's (Mud Pack, Tulpa etc etc)
9. The Age of Apocalypse run in Xmen titles.
10. Battle Action Force
1- Captain Britain (1985 UK).
2- Complete Fantastic Four (1970's UK).
3- Amazing Spider-Man.
4- The Authority (until Quitely left).
5- The Avengers.
6- Defenders (1970's).
7- Savage Sword of Conan (UK).
8- MWOM (UK).
9- Iron Man (1970's/80's- became crap in the 90's).
10- Uncanny X Men.
Comments
Zit
Scream
Oink!
Whizzer and Chips
The Eagle
Viz
Buster
The Beezer
The Beano
I remember "Cor" and also "Cheeky".
Love & Rockets
Neat Stuff
Peepshow
Stickboy
Weirdo
Yummy Fur
Zap
Zero Zero
1) Preacher
2) Bone
3) The Walking Dead
4) Y: The Last Man
5) Ultimate Spider-Man (only up to Vol 8, but loving it
6) Scott Pilgrim
7) Watchmen
8) The Goon
9) Chew
10) Jack Of Fables
2. Valiant
3. Lion
4. Smash!
5. Pow!
6. Fantastic
7. Eagle
8. Beezer
9. Beano
10.Dandy
Hurricaine
Hotspur
Lion
Victor
Eagle
TV21
Tornado
Uncanny Tales
Weired Science
Watchmen
Sandman
The Walking Dead
Preacher
The Invisibles
Lucifer
The Unwritten
Animal Man
Transmetropolitan
Difficult to say if they are my top 10 of all time, so many others I could mention, so many great stories in 2000AD, also Tintin and Asterix probably started my comic obsession.
I totally I agree, I used to borrow them from my old school library.
The Champion
The Wizard
The Hotspur
The Beano
The Dandy
The Sun
The Comet
The Radio Fun
The Knockout (might be spelt wrong)
I thought I would add a few that's been lost in the mist of time.
40s and 50s.
ACTION - Mid to late 1970s - the only comic to be banned in the UK!
TIGER - 1970s IPC offering - who could forget Johnny Cougar the wrestler?!
VICTOR - Dc Thomson's offering.
BUSTER - Always good for a laugh!
HOTSPUR - Another action DC Thomson comic.
BATTLE - IPCs memorable war comic - grittier than Commando!
Loved Faceache, and his 'scrunging.' I also liked Leopard From Lime Street, about the boy superhero with cat-like abilities. I also liked that strip about a boy who had a group of humanoid aliens, each only a few inches high, living in his bedroom. They were the crew of a spacecraft that had crashed and been found by the boy, and the boy was taking care of them until such time as they could fix their spacecraft or be rescued.
LOL that was funny!
Getting Tintin and the Black Island from our library when I was four or five set me off on a love affair with Tintin, that lasted until I started secondary school.
Tintin was supposed to be a journalist, so it was curious how you never saw him taking shorthand notes of situations, or interviewing anyone, writing or submitting copy. Nor did we ever see him dealing with editors, or ever hear any details of whether he worked for a particular paper, or was freelance, or ever see any of his experiences published in a finished article. Not only did we never see any of these things, we also never heard him allude to them at second hand. Odd that, wasn't it? Still, the target audience being quite young, I suppose they thought it would bog down the story somewhat.
Judy same with this comic. late 1950's
Diana i think that came out in the early 1960's
Jackie mid 1960's
My updated list as I start my third year of reading and re-reading comic books as an adult:
Powers - Bendis
Watchmen - A Moore
Dark Knight Returns - Miller
The Boys - Ennis
The Demon Bear Saga - New Mutants (Bill Siekienwicz)
Dark Avengers / New Avengers / Avengers / Alias - Bendis
All Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder - Miller
Chronicles of Wormwood - Ennis
The Dark Phoenix Saga - Uncanny X-Men (Chris Claremont)
Magneto: Testament - Pak
I've read Maus, Morrison's JLA, Preacher, Transmetropolitan, Sin City, Ultimate Spider Man, Bendis' Daredevil, Batman: Year One, Crisis on Multiple Earths, ID Crisis, Y the Last Man, Hellblazer, Fables, etc but they simply didn't make my top ten
2 - Sandman
3 - Defenders (1st series)
4 - Thunderbolts
5 - Death: The High Cost Of Living
6 - Planetary
7 - Watchmen
8 - Elvira (Claypool series)
9 - The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (1st series)
10 - Hellstorm
2. Marvel UK Action Force
3. Mid to late 80's Spider-man
4. The Dark Knight Returns
5. Batman Year One
6. John Byrnes run on Fantastic Four
7. Preacher
8. The Grant/Breyfogle runs on detective comics in the late 80's (Mud Pack, Tulpa etc etc)
9. The Age of Apocalypse run in Xmen titles.
10. Battle Action Force
so many excellent comics left off the list.
Arkham Asylum - the 10th(?) Anniversary edition (with all the notes in the back)
The Dead Man (2000AD story of the burned man)
and the two 911 compilations - powerful stuff.
In no particular order:
Ex Machina
Preacher
Love and Rockets
From Hell
Viz
Lone Wolf and Cub
Ikigami
Panorama of Hell
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Uzumaki
thor
green lantern
superman
spiderman
avengers
justice league
silver surfer
captain marvel
thanos
2- Complete Fantastic Four (1970's UK).
3- Amazing Spider-Man.
4- The Authority (until Quitely left).
5- The Avengers.
6- Defenders (1970's).
7- Savage Sword of Conan (UK).
8- MWOM (UK).
9- Iron Man (1970's/80's- became crap in the 90's).
10- Uncanny X Men.