The Justice League crossover came out late last year, with cover dates of November and December 2007. The issues are cover dated April 1996 to April 2001.
And McCrea is just as good as Dillon is, and for what he's called upon to draw, probably better. It's a hell of a lot more fun, too, with zombie penguins, time-traveling dinosaurs, and Section Eight, the greatest collection of twisted superheroes ever. Hitman is less ambitious, but in a strange way, it ends up being deeper than Preacher. Plus, Ennis avoids the preachiness (sorry) that he often indulged in with Jesse and Tulip and the gang. It's far better than Preacher, in that Ennis deals with many of the same themes - friendship, loyalty, and tragedy - with much more flair, more realism (despite the crazy fantasy stuff), and a better ending. I'm a bit surprised, when I thought about it, that this came in at #2, but I can't think of another comic to put in the spot. Hitman by Garth Ennis and John McCrea (#1-60). The issues are cover dated February 1989 to January 1993 and DC has recently finished collecting all of them in six trade paperbacks.Ģ (37). There's much more in my Comics You Should Own post. Not only the best run in comic book history, but one of the best love stories in comic history. There shouldn't even be a #2, this is so far ahead of everything else. Doom Patrol by Grant Morrison and Richard Case (#19-63). This is just to show you guys how very wrong you are!ġ (14). Of course, with me, "a bit" means "a whole lot." Deal with it! The numbers in parentheses next to my number are where they ranked on the final list. So, let's check out my top 20, and then I want to dissect the final list a bit. Runs that aren't over shouldn't have been eligible.) But Azzarello might totally screw up the ending. My personal rule was that I would not vote for any run that wasn't finished, and I would have extended that rule to the entire contest. I didn't even consider listing runs that aren't finished, because of my definition above - runs have an ending, and bad endings have ruined some great comics (and not just comics, but books and movies and, hell, any entertainment medium). So my best runs reflect that idea - hence the overabundance of DC books.įinally, I think another rule of the contest should have been that "runs" that aren't finished should have been ineligible. That's why the Claremont/Byrne collaboration was so interesting, because it seemed antithetical to what Marvel did back then. To me, a run is more than a long sequence of comics by the same creator, it's a story with a beginning and an end. Marvel has never seemed really interested in the idea of a "run," while DC, ever since the late 1980s, has been. It's even more egregious with his run on Alpha Flight, which he left basically in the middle of a storyline! Claremont kind of petered out on X-Men, David left Hulk in a huff, the Hobgoblin storyline didn't even get resolved in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man.
He wrote and drew the book forever, but at the end, he just kind of left the book without really wrapping anything up. John Byrne's run on Fantastic Four is a classic example of this. To me, a lot of "runs," especially those on Marvel books prior to, let's say the late Nineties, weren't that great because they were simply a collection of comics by the same creative team or one creator that kept going until someone left the book. If we go to my top 20, only 2 are actual Marvel books. I also listed 7 runs published by DC, 1 by a subsidiary of DC, 1 by an independent publisher, and 1 by Marvel (the UK variety).
I'll get into this more when I go over the actual list, but I definitely think modern comics are better. Therefore, while I respect the work of Lee and Kirby and Ditko, I don't look upon their seminal work from the early 1960s as all that good. well, MarkAndrew has accused me of having "reverse nostalgia," as good a term as I can think of, because I simply don't really like comics from before 1970 or so.
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