Best Comic Run Ever Poll

[CConn]

Alright, after adding up all of the nominations, these were the most popular...

 

[PhotoJones]

I'll go with Lee, Ditko and Romita on Amazing Spider-Man.

 

[GNR]

Points to Bru and Co for having the balls to kill off the title character while telling a solid and unpredictable story as well.

 

[Addendum]

I can't decide between Preacher and Amazing Spidey

 

[PhotoJones]

Wow, Zoken...Kirkman and Ottley over Lee and Romita? Really?

 

[Zoken]

Never read their run. If They'd put up Vaughn/Alphonsa for Runaways I would have picked them.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

I REALLY wanted to vote for Uncanny,but i went with Lee/Kirby on Fantastic Four..which basically started everything.

 

[Spade]

Lee and Co.'s run on Spidey. Can't beat the classics.

 

[runawayboulder]

I'm going with Preacher. That was the first non Marvel title I ever followed. Great story from start to finish. I was never once dissapointed during 70+ issues. I'm looking foward to the HBO series in the works.

 

[Zoken]

What was Preacher about? I have an idea for a title called "the Priest" I want to make sure it's not too similar.

 

[CConn]

It was really a hard choice for me. Claremont's Uncanny, Millar's Ultimates, and Lee's later run on ASM are all unbelievably good, IMO. But, in the end, I went with Invincible. Everytime I read it, I just can't help but think to myself "this IS the modern Spider-Man. This IS new ASM." And considering I much prefer the modern writing style to that of the early 60s, I went with that.

 

[Anubis]

What was Preacher about? I have an idea for a title called "the Priest" I want to make sure it's not too similar.

About this burnt out Texas Reverend named Jessie Custer (Whose had a really, really, f**ked up life up to this point) who has been fused with a Half Angel/Demon who is as powerful as God himself called Genesis. With the knowledge that Genesis give him, (About God abandoning creation after it's birth) and the power of the Word ( the ability to make people do whatever the hell he tells them to) he sets out to find God and make answer for leaving behind his responsibilities. He does this along side his ex-girlfriend now ex hit woman, Tulip, and an Irish Vampire named Cassidy. They have to contend with Jessie's crazy ken folk, a secret organization committed to preparing the way for armageddon, and the meanest son of a b***h ever drawn, The Saint of Killers.

Seriously Zoke, you gotta read it.

 

[GNR]

The fact that I read Cap #15 to 28 straight today was quite the deciding factor.

I'll always respect the classics and the characters they created and paths they paved,but the dialog I just can't stand,which is but a minor quibble.

 

[Zoken]

not like my Priest at all... wheew


Joshua Carpenter was supposed to be the greatest black-ops agent the CIA ever had. However, ten years ago, he vanished. Afraid of what would happen if they went looking, the CIA let him stay vanished. They didn't expect that a decade later they would be dealing with a mercenary who has only ever met one CIA agent he hasn't killed to show up accepting a contract on that surviving agent's head. the agent, quite obviously, is Carpenter. Hoping to stem the blood shed and carnage, The CIA finally looks into finding Carpenter, however their search doesn't take as long as they thought it would. He's living under his real name, only now with the title of "Father" before it.

He's serving as a priest in a small catholic church in Kentucky. When they inform him of the price on his head, he starts running. traveling as cheap as he can, staying in rectories with other priests, helping those he meets along the way Carpenter slowly realizes that his two worlds are soon going to become one as: The Vatican authroizes him to perform "Ultimate Sanctions" on those priests, things he thought only a legend become true, and he comes face to face with the mercenary who almost killed him the last time they met. His holy orders are not a cover. he is really a priest, and he is really in a lot of trouble.

 

[warren_sparta27]

the Hush storyline - my fav writer teamed up with my fav artist, what more could i want

 

[iloveclones]

Those are all really good choices, although I always preferred Perez' first run on Avengers, I understand I'm in the minority there.

For me though, it's really hard to vote against Byrne/Claremont on the X-Men. That run alone catapulted that series into everything it is today (for good or bad). I think it is required reading on how to tell a superhero story, how to handle multiple characters on a team (Bendis should read this run),and how to use sub-plots in continuing fiction. The subplots running through those issues just constantly energized every issue, and made it impossible to not pick up the next issue.

 

[PhotoJones]

Those are all really good choices, although I always preferred Perez' first run on Avengers, I understand I'm in the minority there.

I'm with you on that one. I love Perez anything, but it's his very first run on Avengers that remains my favorite. While the Busiek/Perez run was phenomenal, in my opinion it was a little tainted following on the heels of Heroes Reborn and trying to make up for past mistakes like Teen Tony and the Crossing.

 

[iloveclones]

Teen Tony. ugh

 

[PhotoJones]

Yeah...those were the years.

 

[*ANTHONY*]

Amazing spider-man is definately the best.

 

[CConn]

bump

 

[hippie_hunter]

I voted for Brubaker on Captain America because not only is the Bru my favorite writer, as GNR stated, it takes a lot of balls to kill off the main character who's been around for 65 years and still manage to tell such a compelling story.

 

[yenaled]

Personally I'd probably go with Robinson's Starman. But I'll vote Animal Man for pure genius on display.

 

[PhotoJones]

Personally I'd probably go with Robinson's Starman. But I'll vote Animal Man for pure genius on display.

Speaking of Starman, I've been thinking I want to go back and reread that. I remember that being one hell of a comic book run.

 

[yenaled]

I'm actually re-reading it at the moment. Reminding myself what a shockingly great run it is.