Great Comic Book Arcs

Originally Posted by Acro-nym

I've always been a big fan of the Death of Superman. (He should've stayed dead!)

Best line referencing that storyarc, from Batman toward Superman. "The last thing you did to inspire people was dieing." Classic moment.

I'm going to say one of my favorite story arcs is one that alot of people groan over, but I really enjoyed the whole Onslaught cross over. Going in to it, it wasn't really expected, unless you were an avid reader of Wizard or Previews. The execution of the story was pretty tight, save for a few of the side-stories, and Onslaught on the whole was a great villian.

Another one that sticks out for me is the recent Identity Crisis. I mean, the story itself was kind of meh, but the writing and characterization of the characters was excellent. I mean, who really cared about Elongated Man before this story? Same thing with that Prelude to Infinite Crisis, Blue Beetle was a running joke until that story.

The Phoenix Saga from the X-men is a great story. Also the Round Robin Side-Kick saga from Sensational and Amazing Spidey was awesome. And finally, the Powerless story arc from Spider-man, when he looses his powers but still has to fight crime, and severely gets his ass handed to him by Scorpion and a few other baddies, was awesome. Black Cat had to save his ass. Powerless spidey was enjoyable.

Then there's all the required reading stuff, Batman:The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, Days of Future Past, etc.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Knighthawk

Yeah that black and white shit is ridiculous, I think I saw some spiderman books like that.

The marvel TPB's that are really thick and black and white, are the Essentials line. They're not too bad an investment at 14.99 a pop for over 500-800 pages. I picked up the Howard the Duck Essential and it was fun to read it. Afterwards, I finally finished off my Howard the Duck series..so now I just read the Essentials, as it was a killer to find alot of those issues in decent to excellent condition.

and just to keep it on topic: Avengers Disassembled was one of the greatest arcs in recent history. Hawkeye biting it was sad as hell.

There's nowhere I can't reach.