Over at the entertaining blog Comics Should Be Good, some 700 comic book fans submitted their ten favorite comic book runs. Here are the results, broken into easily digestible five entry chunks. As of this posting, #100-#51 have been announced. It appears they are posting two entries a day.
Some interesting findings so far:
*Two Roger Stern runs (58. Avengers #227-279, 281-288 and 55. Amazing Spider-Man #224-227, 229-252)
*The shockingly meager rankings of League of Extraordinary Gentleman at #64, Kirkman’s Invincible at #76, and Lee and Ditko’s Dr. Strange at #88.
*The fact that Christopher Priest’s Black Panther even made the list (73). It is easily the worst book mentioned so far.
*Preponderance X-books:
- 90. Chris Claremont and John Romita Jr Uncanny X-Men #175(partial), #176-197, 199-200, 202-203, 206-211
81. Peter Milligan and Mike Allred X-Force #116-129, X-Statix #1-26
74. Chris Claremont and Alan Davis Excalibur #1-24, 42-52, 54-58, 61-67
71 (tie). Chris Claremont and Paul Smith Uncanny X-Men #165-170, 172-175
71 (tie). Chris Claremont and Marc Silvestri Uncanny X-Men #218, 220-222, 224-227, 229-230, 232-234, 236, 238-244, 246-247, 249-251, 253-255, 259-261
69. Peter David X-Factor #70-90
66. Chris Claremont Marvel Graphic Novel #4, New Mutants #1-54, Annuals #1-3
I’m definitely curious about the rest of the list.
Top 100 Comic Book Runs was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon