Posts: 1099 Location: Cheektowaga, NY Joined: 29.07.05
Posted on 09-11-2005 02:19
I have a list here on what comics to get. I wanna know from you if theres any on my list that I shouldn't get. Now, unless I ask otherwise, don't give me any "you should have this" or "you should get this as well". Ok?
THE LIST:
BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT ARCHIVES VOL. 1
BATMAN IN THE SEVENTIES
BATMAN: TENSES
BATMAN: NIGHT CRIES
BATMAN: HAUNTED KNIGHT
BATMAN: STRANGE APPARITIONS
BATMAN: TALES OF THE DEMON
NIGHTWING YEAR ONE
BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE
BATMAN: A DEATH IN A FAMILY
BATMAN: LONELY PLACE OF DYING
BATMAN: SWORD OF AZRAEL
KNIGHTFALL 1-3
BATMAN: PRODIGAL
BATMAN: CONTAGION
BATMAN: LEGACY
BATMAN: CATACLSYM
BATMAN: NO MAN'S LAND 1-5
GOTHAM CENTRAL 1: IN THE LINE OF DUTY
GOTHAM CENTRAL 2: HALF A LIFE
BATMAN: OFFICER DOWN
BRUCE WAYNE: MURDERER?
BRUCE WAYNE: FUGITIVE 1-3
BATMAN: DEATH OF THE MAIDENS
BROKEN CITY
ROBIN: UNMASKED
BATMAN WAR DRUMS
BATMAN: WAR GAMES 1-2-3
BATMAN: UNDER THE HOOD
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BATMAN/HUNTRESS: A CRY FOR BLOOD
SUPERMAN-BATMAN:
BATGIRL
CATWOMAN: HER SISTER'S KEEPER
BATMAN: NINE LIVES
BATMAN ANIMATED
===========================
WONDER WOMAN: GODS AND MORTALS
WONDER WOMAN: SECOND GENESIS
WONDER WOMAN: THE CONTEST
WONDER WOMAN: GODS OF GOTHAM
WONDER WOMAN: PARADISE LOST
WONDER WOMAN: PAADISE FOUND
WONDER WOMAN: DOWN TO EARTH
WONDER WOMAN: THE HIKETEIA
WONDER WOMAN: BITTER RIVALS
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SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL (1-4?)
DEATH OF SUPERMAN
WORLD WITHOUT A SUPERMAN
THE RETURN OF SUPERMAN
THE WEDDING & BEYOND
SUPERMAN: TRANSFORMED
SUPERMAN: BITHRIGHT
SUPERMAN: RED SON
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SUPERMAN: NO LIMITS!
SUPERMAN: ENDGAME
SUPERMAN: 'TILL DEATH DO US PART
SUPERMAN: CRITICAL CONDITION
SUPERMAN: PRESIDENT LEX
SUPERMAN: RETURN TO KRYPTON
SUPERMAN: FOR ALL SEASONS
SUPERMAN: FOR TOMORROW
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THE FLASH: BORN TO RUN
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GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD DAWN
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GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD DAWN I & II - Hal's origin
GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD TWILIGHT/NEW DAWN - Hal becomes Parallax
GREEN LANTERN: BAPTISM OF FIRE - Kyle's beginnings
GREEN LANTERN: CIRCLE OF FIRE - Kyle battles Oblivion
GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD KNIGHTS - Kyle and a young Hal team up.
GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD ALLIES - Kyle and Connor Hawke team up
ZERO HOUR: CRISIS IN TIME
THE FINAL NIGHT - Hal sacrifices himself to re-ignite the sun.
DAY OF JUDGEMENT - Hal becomes the Spectre
GREEN LANTERN: NEW JOURNEY, OLD PATH - Judd Winick takes over the title, Kyle battles Nero.
GREEN LANTERN: THE POWER OF ION - Kyle becomes Ion, obviously
GREEN LANTERN: BROTHER'S KEEPER - Kyle's assistant is the victim of a hate crime
GREEN LANTERN: PASSING THE TORCH - Winick's last arc, Kyle ventures out to space.
GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH - we should all be familiar with this one
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I have read about 80% of those and they are all pretty good stories. Pretty good list to get caught up on the last 15 years of stuff plus the essentials form before then. You might skip out on some of the later Green Lantern stuff. I didn't really like the title after Ron Marz left.
I know you said that you didn't want suggestions for other things, but I think that the Batman Dark Knight Archives starts with Batman #1 and the Batman Archives starts with Batman's first appearance in Detective #27. I haven't really looked at the Dark Knight archives, but if the other starts earlier you may want it first.
DK is right, the Dark Knight archives begin with Batman #1, and the Batman archives begin with his first appearance in Detective #27. It's also available for only $20, so that one is a no-brainer. Other than that, these are the ones I recommend most:
BATMAN IN THE SEVENTIES
BATMAN: HAUNTED KNIGHT
BATMAN: STRANGE APPARITIONS
BATMAN: TALES OF THE DEMON
NIGHTWING YEAR ONE
BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE
BATMAN: A DEATH IN A FAMILY
BATMAN: LONELY PLACE OF DYING
BATMAN: SWORD OF AZRAEL
KNIGHTFALL 1-3
BATMAN: PRODIGAL
BATMAN: CONTAGION
BATMAN: LEGACY
BATMAN: CATACLSYM
BATMAN: NO MAN'S LAND 1-5
GOTHAM CENTRAL 1: IN THE LINE OF DUTY
GOTHAM CENTRAL 2: HALF A LIFE
BATMAN: OFFICER DOWN
BRUCE WAYNE: MURDERER?
BRUCE WAYNE: FUGITIVE 1-3
BATMAN: DEATH OF THE MAIDENS
BROKEN CITY
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BATMAN/HUNTRESS: A CRY FOR BLOOD
BATMAN ANIMATED
===========================
SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL (1-4?)
SUPERMAN: RED SON
SUPERMAN: FOR ALL SEASONS
THE FLASH: BORN TO RUN
===========================
GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD DAWN
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GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD DAWN I & II - Hal's origin
ZERO HOUR: CRISIS IN TIME
THE FINAL NIGHT - Hal sacrifices himself to re-ignite the sun.
GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH - we should all be familiar with this one
I haven't read most of the later GL stuff, but the issues where Kyle is just taking over as Green Lantern are pretty good. I know you said no recommendations, but if you want to read Zero Hour, you need to read Crisis on Infinite Earths fisrt, if you haven't already. Zero Hour is a direct sequel, and it'll be much more enjoyable if you've read Crisis. I no longer have Flash: Born to Run, but I read it years ago and loved it. Geoff Johns' run on the book, which wrapped recently, was even better.
I haven't read much Wonder Woman, but I have ordered the trades of Greg Rucka's runon the book, after picking up a few recent issues. Rucka's writing just won me over. The man does not know how to write a bad story. He also wrote Huntress: Cry for Blood and the Gotham Central trades on your list, and I cannot recommend them highly enough.
As much as I love Brian Azzarello and everything else he has done-- which includes the excellent 100 Bullets, the noir masterpiece Broken City, and the recently-released western Loveless-- I wound up really disliking his Superman run. I'd avoid For Tomorrow like the plague. The Man of steel trades, reprinting the post-Crisis reboot issues by Byrne, Wolfman, Ordway, et al, are great. I have all but the most recent, and there is some great stuff in those. They're old school, but good, solid superhero comics. Don't hesistate to pick 'em up.
Posts: 1631 Location: Rockville, IA Joined: 24.06.05
Posted on 10-11-2005 11:30
I couldn't get that last issue or two of Superman: Return to Krypton, but I thought it was an interesting time travel story. I'm not big on McGuinness's art, but in exploring Krypton the story itself was cool.
Might be hard to follow at times, but Green Lantern: Rebirth was really neat too, exploring the origins of Parallax. There's a lot of stories on your list that I've been wanting to read myself. People seem to praise the Green Lantern-Green Arrow stuff from the Adams/O'Neil era also.
I agree with Drunken Fist's top Batman picks. Mostly essential stories. Unless you're wanting to see exactly what goes down in Robin Unmasked, I probably wouldn't pick it up. The illustrations are hard to look at, and the characters can seem really... uncharacteristic.
Posts: 1099 Location: Cheektowaga, NY Joined: 29.07.05
Posted on 14-11-2005 22:13
I updated my book list.
BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT ARCHIVES VOL. 1
BATMAN IN THE SEVENTIES
BATMAN: TENSES
BATMAN: NIGHT CRIES
BATMAN: HAUNTED KNIGHT
BATMAN: STRANGE APPARITIONS
BATMAN: TALES OF THE DEMON
NIGHTWING YEAR ONE
BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE
BATMAN: A DEATH IN A FAMILY
BATMAN: LONELY PLACE OF DYING
BATMAN: SWORD OF AZRAEL
KNIGHTFALL 1-3
BATMAN: PRODIGAL
BATMAN: CONTAGION
BATMAN: LEGACY
BATMAN: CATACLSYM
BATMAN: NO MAN'S LAND 1-5
GOTHAM CENTRAL 1: IN THE LINE OF DUTY
GOTHAM CENTRAL 2: HALF A LIFE
BATMAN: OFFICER DOWN
BRUCE WAYNE: MURDERER?
BRUCE WAYNE: FUGITIVE 1-3
BATMAN: DEATH OF THE MAIDENS
BROKEN CITY
ROBIN: UNMASKED
BATMAN WAR DRUMS
BATMAN: WAR GAMES 1-2-3
BATMAN: UNDER THE HOOD
==========================
BATMAN/HUNTRESS: A CRY FOR BLOOD
SUPERMAN-BATMAN:
BATGIRL
CATWOMAN: HER SISTER'S KEEPER
BATMAN: NINE LIVES
BATMAN ANIMATED
===========================
WONDER WOMAN: GODS AND MORTALS -
Diana goes to Man's World for the 1st time.
WONDER WOMAN:
CHALLENGE OF THE GODS -
Diana fights the deadly Cheetah.
WONDER WOMAN: BEAUTY AND THE BEASTS -
Diana fights her toughest opponents.
WONDER WOMAN: THE CONTEST -
Diana must reclaim the title of Wonder Woman.
WONDER WOMAN:
CHALLENGE OF ARTEMIS -
Artemis is the new Wonder Woman, will Diana get it back?
WONDER WOMAN: SECOND GENESIS -
Darkseid prepares to rule Paradise Island.
WONDER WOMAN: LIFELINES -
Diana faces off against three entities who are suppose to be dead.
WONDER WOMAN: GODS OF GOTHAM -
Batman and Wonder Woman fight together on Ares' infested villians of Gotham.
WONDER WOMAN: PARADISE LOST -
While in the fight of Gotham, Diana's home has begun civil war.
WONDER WOMAN: PARADISE FOUND -
With war raging, Diana is in for the fight of her life.
WONDER WOMAN: DOWN TO EARTH -
When Diana writes a book on her beliefs, it ignites controversy.
WONDER WOMAN: THE HIKETEIA -
Diana must be the guardian of a woman and protect her, even from Batman.
WONDER WOMAN: BITTER RIVALS -
Trying to solve a murder, Diana calls Batman.
===========================
SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL (1-4?)
DEATH OF SUPERMAN
WORLD WITHOUT A SUPERMAN
THE RETURN OF SUPERMAN
THE WEDDING & BEYOND
SUPERMAN: TRANSFORMED
SUPERMAN: BITHRIGHT
SUPERMAN: RED SON
----------------------------------------------------
SUPERMAN: NO LIMITS!
SUPERMAN: ENDGAME
SUPERMAN: 'TILL DEATH DO US PART
SUPERMAN: CRITICAL CONDITION
SUPERMAN: PRESIDENT LEX
SUPERMAN: RETURN TO KRYPTON
SUPERMAN: FOR ALL SEASONS
SUPERMAN: FOR TOMORROW
===========================
THE FLASH: BORN TO RUN
===========================
GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD DAWN
--------------------------------------------------
GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD DAWN I & II - Hal's origin
GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD TWILIGHT/NEW DAWN - Hal becomes Parallax
GREEN LANTERN: BAPTISM OF FIRE - Kyle's beginnings
GREEN LANTERN: CIRCLE OF FIRE - Kyle battles Oblivion
GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD KNIGHTS - Kyle and a young Hal team up.
GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD ALLIES - Kyle and Connor Hawke team up
ZERO HOUR: CRISIS IN TIME
THE FINAL NIGHT - Hal sacrifices himself to re-ignite the sun.
DAY OF JUDGEMENT - Hal becomes the Spectre
GREEN LANTERN: NEW JOURNEY, OLD PATH - Judd Winick takes over the title, Kyle battles Nero.
GREEN LANTERN: THE POWER OF ION - Kyle becomes Ion, obviously
GREEN LANTERN: BROTHER'S KEEPER - Kyle's assistant is the victim of a hate crime
GREEN LANTERN: PASSING THE TORCH - Winick's last arc, Kyle ventures out to space.
GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH - we should all be familiar with this one
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