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@Octopus ....ahhhhhhhthats such a hard question! Whole runs, individual stories, favorite arcs?! I'll do my best. Those are all great picks, by the way! (But Danny Rand's best was Fraction's Seven Cities of Heaven jk but not really no im kidding mostly)
1. Secret Six (vol. 3)
Gail Simone's dark comedy masterpiece, Secret Six was a book I'd rush out of opening shifts to pick up from my local comic shop. A team of killers who aren't the *literal* worst, just pretty close, made gorgeous by Nicola Scott's art. (Shout out to her and Gail Simone making "Sexy Catman who fucks" their greatest mission in life, and succeeding good lord.)
2. Uncanny X-Force
Rick Remender took over X-Force in 2010, a relatively boring book shooting for "cool action" and rarely hitting the mark. The initial issues seem to be doubling down on the previous series, taking the action to the moon to battle Apocalypse's fabled Last Horsemen, who have cloned their dark master, a child En Sabah Nur being raised by his forebear's most genocidal minions. Can X-Force rescue this child before he grows into the new mutant disaster?
Nah, they kill the kid.
The whole book spirals wildly from there, a deconstruction of comic book vigilante justice, mixed with mad science, time-travel, parallel realities, an adventure in the Age of Apocalypse, so much killing, Deathloks, sex, and the single best Deadpool moment I've ever read.
3. Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons
Look, I could write about how good this is, but nothing I say speaks louder than the artwork. Jaw-dropping pages by Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott, with a story by Kelly Sue DeConnick that choked me up at the end.
Frustratingly all the double page spreads I want to post are too large to attach on here.
4. Action Comics 890-900, collected as Superman: The Black Ring
A wacky tour of the DC Universe with Lex Luthor and his quest for...ultimate power? (No spoilers here, read it I beg you) Paul Cornell and Pete Woods sketch out the most interesting take on Superman's nemesis likely ever committed to page, building (I think) from the great version Grant Morrison laid out in All-Star Superman.
5. Journey into Mystery #622-645, collected as Journey Into Mystery by Kieron Gillen
I love Kieron Gillen's writing so much, I could just list all of his books on here and be happy with my choices. This was the first time I really noticed his work, a new direction for Loki that everyone assumed was to get more in line with Tom Hiddleston's MCU version. Surprise, it's a mythic/meta take on the unchanging nature of story conventions, and the constraints placed on Loki in myth and the pages of Marvel. This has basically become the new foundational text for the character, leading directly into Al Ewing's (equally amazing) series, Loki: Agent of Asgard, and ironically inspired the recent live-action Disney series. (The books, as they say, are better.)
...okay I was going to do several more but I'm taking hours just to write this much, I keep reading the books and getting distracted. How do people pick favorites?! I owe you at least another five, soon as I can make up my mind.
1. Secret Six (vol. 3)
Gail Simone's dark comedy masterpiece, Secret Six was a book I'd rush out of opening shifts to pick up from my local comic shop. A team of killers who aren't the *literal* worst, just pretty close, made gorgeous by Nicola Scott's art. (Shout out to her and Gail Simone making "Sexy Catman who fucks" their greatest mission in life, and succeeding good lord.)
2. Uncanny X-Force
Rick Remender took over X-Force in 2010, a relatively boring book shooting for "cool action" and rarely hitting the mark. The initial issues seem to be doubling down on the previous series, taking the action to the moon to battle Apocalypse's fabled Last Horsemen, who have cloned their dark master, a child En Sabah Nur being raised by his forebear's most genocidal minions. Can X-Force rescue this child before he grows into the new mutant disaster?
Nah, they kill the kid.
The whole book spirals wildly from there, a deconstruction of comic book vigilante justice, mixed with mad science, time-travel, parallel realities, an adventure in the Age of Apocalypse, so much killing, Deathloks, sex, and the single best Deadpool moment I've ever read.
3. Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons
Look, I could write about how good this is, but nothing I say speaks louder than the artwork. Jaw-dropping pages by Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott, with a story by Kelly Sue DeConnick that choked me up at the end.
Frustratingly all the double page spreads I want to post are too large to attach on here.
4. Action Comics 890-900, collected as Superman: The Black Ring
A wacky tour of the DC Universe with Lex Luthor and his quest for...ultimate power? (No spoilers here, read it I beg you) Paul Cornell and Pete Woods sketch out the most interesting take on Superman's nemesis likely ever committed to page, building (I think) from the great version Grant Morrison laid out in All-Star Superman.
5. Journey into Mystery #622-645, collected as Journey Into Mystery by Kieron Gillen
...okay I was going to do several more but I'm taking hours just to write this much, I keep reading the books and getting distracted. How do people pick favorites?! I owe you at least another five, soon as I can make up my mind.
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