What are the Top 5 Greatest Comic Book Storyline ever written?

Neither House of M or Infinite Crisis should be anywhere near this list.

I can't believe I forgot about the Watchmen...as far as technical, literary, and overall artistic value, undoubtedly the best...although Kingdom Come is very close.

Originally posted by BentonGrey
Neither House of M or Infinite Crisis should be anywhere near this list.

Onslaught sucked - just for the record.

Sucked HARD.

And....the story in Silver Surfer: Requiem WAS beautiful - props for putting it up there, but I thought we were focusing more on the wide-events?

Yes, "wide events". I am talking about dedicated Graphic Novels, or titled storylines from the regular comic books. No one-shotters.

I really thought I would hear more people digging the
Dark Knight Returns story.

OOOOHHHHHH!!! I forgot one...

Emerald Twilight. Hal Jordan. Awesome.

Elementals, Shadowspear story, with Lord Saker, was also very cool, for you Old School readers that read stuff from the '80's.

And, yes, Onslaught was one of the storylines that made me sad to be a comic book guy.

Originally posted by Soljer
Onslaught sucked - just for the record.

Sucked HARD.

And....the story in Silver Surfer: Requiem WAS beautiful - props for putting it up there, but I thought we were focusing more on the wide-events?

Story-wise, COIE was the only one of my choices that would qualify under those stips.

And I felt Requiem had to be there. It moved me to tears. cry

I'm gonna have to check out Requiem. It sounds quality.

Originally posted by Horrificus
I'm gonna have to check out Requiem. It sounds quality.

Four of the best issues I've ever read in my life.

They were good.

Watchmen (greatest writing ever imo) in a class of it's own.

No particular order:

Marvels
Earth X
Requiem
Kingdom Come
IG saga

The Killing Joke
Infinity Gauntlet
Watchmen
Future Imperfect
Dark Knight returns

- I saw people listing 'Civil War', 'Zero Hour', and 'World War Hulk',,,,,,are you serious? All three stories sucked.

Originally posted by tkitna
The Killing Joke
Infinity Gauntlet
Watchmen
Future Imperfect
Dark Knight returns

- I saw people listing 'Civil War', 'Zero Hour', and 'World War Hulk',,,,,,are you serious? All three stories sucked.

I disagree, "Civil War" rocked and showed Marvel has balls ✅

5)Spider-man Death of Gwen Stacey
4)Dark Phoenix Saga
3)Daredevil: Guardian Devil
2)Ultimates vol 1 & 2
1)Secret Wars vol 1

These are what I would recommend, but if you are asking for what to buy, the best bet is to flick through some trades in the store and get what catches your eye the most ✅ My top five favourite are Marvel comics by coincidence, there's tons of DC stuff I love 🙂

These are the big comic events that I read:

Death of Superman
Knightfall
Maximum Carnage
Infinity Gauntlet
Onslaught Saga

ig saga
secret wars 1
watchmen
coie
annihilation(i enjoyed it)

Originally posted by masterbruce
These are the big comic events that I read:

Death of Superman
Knightfall
Maximum Carnage
Infinity Gauntlet
Onslaught Saga

Originally posted by Validus
Maximum Carnage? Good heavens.

Wasn't too hard apparently because Maximum Carnage was god awful.

Originally posted by Validus
Wasn't too hard apparently because Maximum Carnage was god awful.

Originally posted by masterbruce
was it god awful when you first read it or just now in retrospect? I thought it was good back then

Originally posted by Validus
It was never even half way decent. Maximum Carnage makes House of M look like Watchmen.

when you're younger, the complexity of plot matters much less

Mine are in no specific order:

IG Saga
Annihilation
Avengers Disassembled
Green Lantern Rebirth
Day of Vengeance 😮

Originally posted by masterbruce
so you had the same standards on comics when you were 12 as you are currently?

when you're younger, the complexity of plot matters much less