{"id":789,"date":"2008-04-12T16:34:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T16:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/04\/12\/top-100-comic-book-runs\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:39","slug":"top-100-comic-book-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/04\/12\/top-100-comic-book-runs\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 100 Comic Book Runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the entertaining blog <span style=\"font-style: italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/goodcomics.comicbookresources.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">Comics Should Be Good<\/a><\/span>, some 700 comic book fans submitted their ten favorite comic book runs.  Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/goodcomics.comicbookresources.com\/category\/top-100-comic-book-runs\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">the results<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>\nSome interesting findings so far:<\/p>\n<ul><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/goodcomics.comicbookresources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/stern1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">*<\/span><\/span>Two Roger Stern runs (<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">58.<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Avengers<\/span> #227-279, 281-288 and  <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">55.<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Amazing Spider-Man<\/span> #224-227, 229-252) <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px;line-height: normal\">*<\/span>The shockingly meager rankings of <span style=\"font-style: italic\">League of Extraordinary Gentleman<\/span> at #64, Kirkman&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Invincible<\/span> at #76, and Lee and Ditko&#8217;s Dr. Strange at #88.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/goodcomics.comicbookresources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/moore11.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px;line-height: normal\">*<\/span>The fact that Christopher Priest\u2019s <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Black Panther<\/span> even made the list (73).  It is easily the worst book mentioned so far.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px;line-height: normal\">*<\/span>Preponderance X-books:<\/p>\n<ul><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">90.<\/span> Chris Claremont and John Romita Jr <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Uncanny X-Men<\/span> #175(partial), #176-197, 199-200, 202-203, 206-211 <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">81.<\/span> Peter Milligan and Mike Allred <span style=\"font-style: italic\">X-Force<\/span> #116-129, <span style=\"font-style: italic\">X-Statix<\/span> #1-26<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">74.<\/span> Chris Claremont and Alan Davis <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Excalibur<\/span> #1-24, 42-52, 54-58, 61-67<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">71 (tie).<\/span> Chris Claremont and Paul Smith <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Uncanny X-Men<\/span> #165-170, 172-175<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">71 (tie).<\/span> Chris Claremont and Marc Silvestri <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Uncanny X-Men<\/span> #218, 220-222, 224-227, 229-230, 232-234, 236, 238-244, 246-247, 249-251, 253-255, 259-261<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">69.<\/span> Peter David <span style=\"font-style: italic\">X-Factor<\/span> #70-90<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">66.<\/span> Chris Claremont <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Marvel Graphic Novel<\/span> #4, <span style=\"font-style: italic\">New Mutants<\/span> #1-54, Annuals #1-3<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/goodcomics.comicbookresources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/milligan.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m definitely curious about the rest of the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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