Favorite Comic Book Story line or issue.

[Vanyel]

I thought I'd add to the comic threads being posted. Now in all your time reading comics what was your favorite story line or issue.

As you can see from my avatar, my favorite is the Phoenix Saga, from Jean Grey piloting the shuttle to Earth, her death and resurrection as Phoenix to her conversion to Dark Phoenix by Master Mind and finally, her death on the moon.

Next would be The Judas Contract from The New Teen Titans. Terra was always a favorite character of mine, and watching her go insane was heartbreaking.

Also from The New Teen Titans would be the single issue, Who Is Donna Troy. A simple detective story with so much emotion I couldn't put it down and had to read it again.

Days of Future Past is a powerful story line that made me cry when I saw Storm, one of my favorite X-Men, cut down by a Sentinel.

Last comes Raven of the New Teen Titans. Her changes in appearance were small until she was finally taken over by Trigon. I loved the story, but hated Azarth for using Raven in this manner.

The Elfquest series from The Wolfriders escape from The Holt, the Troll's caves, the desert crossing and finding a peace in Sorrows End. Then The Blue Mountain events that led to Winnowill trying to kill the Wolfriders and Two Edge staging a war between the elves and trolls to see which of two edges he is.

So tell me yours.

 

[KeepOnTrekking]

I haven't read comics in years but I'll try to remember the best I can.

Dr. Strange in Strange Tales Vol. 1 where he goes on The Search for Eternity while battling Dormammu and Baron Mordo.

Dr. Strange again in Marvel Premiere #3-14 with the Shuma-Gorath storyline where the Ancient One dies.

The Armor Wars in Iron Man Vol. 1 .

Namor in Tales to Astonish where he goes on The Quest for Neptune's Trident .

Then there was a storyline in Avengers Vol. 1 where Sersi and the Black Knight were joined together in the spirit link (Jann Gossun?) where Sersi was slowly going insane. Captain America and Iron Man were just coming to the disagreement that caused the Force Works to split away from the Avengers.

 

[TheBrew]

"The Death of Captain America"

"The Sinestro Corps War"

 

[Mistral]

Days of Future Passed. Including all of the "add-on" stories in the various titles like New Mutants, Fantastic Four, Xforce etc. The whole mutant Holocaust just grabbed me....

Also, the Excalibur "time train" storyline was amusing, where they rode to parallel Earths..

 

[suarezguy]

Probably Amazing Spider-Man #13 (great story all in one issue, love Mysterio and how effective he was plus all of the Lee/Ditko comic relief), #82 (really shows the strain and frustration very well) and Batman: Shadow of the Bat #16-18, "The God of Fear" (first Scarecrow story I read and he was very well presented).

 

[Thrall]

The Dark Phoenix Saga. It's not just a great fantasy story or a great superhero story. It's a great love story. It's what made me an X-Men fan.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Crisis on Infinite Earths

 

[TheSeeker]

I remember being very moved by The Death of Captain Marvel graphic novel when I was a kid.

The original Secret Wars mini-series was also a big favourite of mine.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

My favorite single issue is G.I.Joe 21, called Silent Interlude. Scarlett is kidnapped by Storm Shadow. He basically places her in a large paper bag and carries her to Cobra Island. Then he tosses her in a filfthy dungeon- like pit. Snake-eyes is covertly trying to rescue her, all while she prepares her own escape. Just as she is trying to escape, both Storm Shadow and Sake Eyes arrive, and Storm Shadow nearly kills her by tossing his sword at her but just before it pierces her abdomen, Snakeye's catches it and takes off with her. It's then we realize that Snake Eyes and Storm shadow have the same clan tatoo. The mo0st important thing is that this issue is done without any words at all.

 

[Ben Sisko3]

Cable & Deadpool #18 - "Why, When I Was Your Age..."
Y: The Last Man #60 - "Alas..."
Watchmen #11 - "Look Upon My Works, Ye Mighty..."

 

[stonester1]

Walt Simonson's "Ragnorok" storyline on Thor

John Byrne's "Trial of Galactus" on Fantastic Four

The Dark Phoenix saga on X-Men

The Immortus saga on George Perez/Marv Wolfman's run on Avengers

A whole crapload from their run on Teen Titans

 

[Mr Light]

Basically Claramont's entire 20 year run on X-Men, but specifically the entire Phoenix/Dark Phoenix Saga. For more recent fare, the Sinestro Corps War.

 

[exodus]

Legends of the Dark Knight-Venom

Batman-Arkham Asylum

X-Men-The Dark Phoenix Saga

Preacher- Until the End of the World

 

[Gojirob]

Batman/Captain America by John Byrne. The king of hit/miss zero/one hit one to the moon with this comic.

 

[ElScoob]

Off the top of my head, "Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow?", "The Great Darkness Saga", the Evillo/Devil's Dozen two-parter in Adventure Comics #350-351, and "New World Order" (Morrison's first JLA story arc).

--g

 

[Professor Zoom]

I don't remember the exact issue, but The Flash under the helm of William Messner-Loebs. Wally West is on a plane, helping transport a criminal. A gun fight break outs, or something, but, a hole is creating in the plane and a stewardess is blown out the plane. Wally, without a hesitation, jumps after her. The rest of the issue is how The Flash brings them down.

Just a great little single issue story that's always stuck with me.

 

[Admiral2]

The original GALACTUS saga, Fantastic Four (of course...)

The Dark Phoenix saga, X-Men (of course...)

The Cobra Civil War, GIJOE (the comic)

"Man and Superman", Fantastic Four (Byrne's run)

And there was one issue of Spider-Man (during the Frenz-Rubinstein run) when an ex-herald of Galactus - Firelord - came to Manhattan for pizza and Spidey had to stop him by hisself. Some might call "bullshit" but I love that freakin' issue!

 

[captcalhoun]

My favorite single issue is G.I.Joe 21, called Silent Interlude. Scarlett is kidnapped by Storm Shadow. He basically places her in a large paper bag and carries her to Cobra Island. Then he tosses her in a filfthy dungeon- like pit. Snake-eyes is covertly trying to rescue her, all while she prepares her own escape. Just as she is trying to escape, both Storm Shadow and Sake Eyes arrive, and Storm Shadow nearly kills her by tossing his sword at her but just before it pierces her abdomen, Snakeye's catches it and takes off with her. It's then we realize that Snake Eyes and Storm shadow have the same clan tatoo. The mo0st important thing is that this issue is done without any words at all.

it was Castle Destro in the Balkans, not Cobra Island, but never mind...

mine:

The Ultimates Vol 2: Homeland Security. It's Independence Day with superheroes!

The Ultimates 2 vol. 2: Grand Theft America. America gets invaded by super-soldiers from Iran, China, Russia and Syria, a fight breaks out with the Ultimates, then the EUROPEAN supersoldiers show up and all hell breaks loose.

Ultimate Spider-Man: Clone Saga. SO. MUCH. BETTER. THAN. THE FIRST.

Dragon's Claws. the entire 10-issue run.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

ah thanks for correcting me. I don't have the issue anymore LOL

 

[captcalhoun]

's okay. they reprinted it in Marvel UK's Action Force weekly comic and it had a framing story in which Scarlett was kidnapped from Trafalgar Square and flown to Castle Destro by Stormie. I don't think a CLAW would'vve reached across the Atlantic! hell, across Europe's stretching credullity...