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

Started by Endless Mike6 pages

In no particular order:

- American Gothic (Swamp Thing)
- Secret Wars I
- Watchmen
- Crisis on Infinite Earths
- The original Surtur arc in Walt Simonson's Thor

Anything with the Brood in it. Those were classic.

4 years later...

Watchmen
IG saga
Final Crisis
Thor (Ragnarok)
Annihilation

All star Superman
JLA by Grant Morrison
Hitman
X-men by Grant Morrison
X-men 😖econd Coming
Thor: Ragnarok
The ballad of Beta Ray Bill
Surtur Saga
Batman: RIP
Silver Surfer: Requiem
Planet Hulk
Future Imperfect
Superman/Shazam :First Thunder
DOV/Countdown to Infinite Crisis/Rann Thannagar war
Adam Strange: Planet heist
Doctor strange/Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment

Lots more

Second coming, really?

what did people like about it?

I like Cable and Hope's journey.

Hm, that's hard, because a lot of my favorite bits of comics are character moments that aren't part of a single story that's necessarily really stand out as a top-of-all-time. Or I'm totally into a story right at the moment. I absolutely love Death Vigil and Lazarus right now. Will I still in a few years? Who knows? But for now they're way up in may favs.

Though to name a few off the top of my head-
Empowered, "Three Seconds Too Late"

Sandman, Hob's story

And, uh, a lot from previous people's lists.

Originally posted by krisblaze
Second coming, really?

what did people like about it?

I can see it, it was the conclusion of a giant arc, and pretty epic at that.

All-Star Superman.
Hellboy (let's say the Third Wish or the Crooked Man)
Promethea (for me it's the Moore book with the most staying power)
Guardians of the Galaxy (Abbet and Lanning's run, I like fun books.
Brubaker's Captain America run (just good old comic books)

Honorable Mention: Sandman (lot's of filler and forgettable stuff, but also some of the best sequences I've read in a comicbook)

Also

Sandman: Season of mists
SANDMAN : A Dream of a Thousand Cats
Lucifer: Morningstar
JLA: New maps of hell
Batman :Ten nights of the beast
Green Lantern :Emerald Dawn
Swamp Thing: The murder of crows/American Gothic
Superman : For the man who has everything
Flash: Born to Run
Flash: Return of Barry Allen
Flash: Terminal Velocity
Flash : Rogue War
Green Lantern : Circle of Fire
Hellblazer : Dangerous Habits
Daredevil : Born again
Daredevil : Guardian Devil
Daredevil : Fall of Kingpin
JSA: Justice be done
JSA : Return of Hawkman
JSA : Princes of Darkness
JLA/JSA : Lightning Saga
Legion of Superheroes : Earthwar
Legion of Superheroes : The greatest hero of them all
Legion of Superheroes : Foundations
Legion Lost
New Teen Titans: Judas Contract
New Teen Titans: Who is Donna Troy
New Teen Titans : Terror of Trigon
Atlantis Chronicles
Avengers :Assault on Olympus
Avengers : Korvac saga
Avengers : under Seize
Zemo: Born better

Lots more.

Sad how nothing in the last four years has even come close to being on the list. I'll just pick my five favourites, picking one for each character/team:

Flash - Basically then entire Zoom storyline Johns wrote, from the moment he shows up to the moment Wally changes the past.
X-Men - The first X-Factor run and how it led in to the Inferno stuff.
Superman - The Journey
Aquaman - Anything by Peter David; it's all excellent.
GL - Rebirth
Silver Surfer - I have to go with Requiem. Utterly brilliant piece of work.
Avengers - Ultron... Unlimited, I think it was called.

Sure, that's 7, but meh.

Originally posted by -Pr-
Sad how nothing in the last four years has even come close to being on the list.

I seriously considered adding Godzilla in Hell to my list.

Uncanny X-Force: The Dark Angel Saga is another good one.

Originally posted by Kazenji
Uncanny X-Force: The Dark Angel Saga is another good one.

Good run 👆

Originally posted by -Pr-
Sad how nothing in the last four years has even come close to being on the list.

I find there's a tendency not to include super-recent stuff in a best-of-all-time list, just in case time changes opinions.

Originally posted by Q99
I find there's a tendency not to include super-recent stuff in a best-of-all-time list, just in case time changes opinions.

Could be, though as good as some of the stuff I've read has been (mainly post reboot DC stuff), none of it just stood out that much, to me.

Maybe Johns' Aquaman, but that was just really good, rather than all time great.

Originally posted by Bentley
I seriously considered adding Godzilla in Hell to my list.

Genuinely haven't read it.

1. Kingdom Come
2. The Dark Knight Returns
3. Daredevil: The Man Without Fear
4. All Star Superman
5. V for Vendetta / Watchmen

The first that crossed my mind.

I keep thinking back about the fact I enjoyed Earth X and Kingdom Come, but for the life of me I cannot really point out any concrete stuff that I found awesome about either series.

The Dark Knight Returns is one of those Batman stories that are actually somewhat good, all thanks to Gordon 👆

No order:

Thor: God Butcher
The Strange Talent of Luther Strode
Annihilation
Invincible: The Viltrumite War
Secret Warriors
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Green Lantern: Rebirth

In no particular order.

1. Spawn: Godslayer

2. Thor: God Of Thunder

3. Marvel "Annihilation"

4. Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps War

5. Irredeemable

Honorable Mention:
Jupiter's Legacy, SuperGod and anything written by the new Valiant company is gold.