Great Comic Book Arcs

I remember from the early 90's to early 2000 I was a huge comic book fan, now Im really just a reader of Ultimate Spiderman, and there was alot of great stuff to read back then. What are some of your favorite past story arcs that you just couldnt wait for 30 days to pass to pick up the next part? Some of mine are :

The whole death, funeral, return of superman. The death wasnt a surprise, I knew he was going to die a few issues before it happened...and wondered if it really was the end, collected all the comics thinking they would be worth something and then heard about the return. The return was interesting...although you obviously knew that some of the Supermen were not Kal-El (Steel and Superboy) but it made you wonder about Eradictor and Cyborg. I still have all the issues, and double copies of the cutout debuts on the return.

Dark Phoenix Saga was another one that I actually paid alot of money for and enjoyed, I dont know it was just classic story telling to me.

Batman: Knightfall. I think I enjoyed this up until Azrael. I loved Bane breaking Batmans back...that was wicked. Ill forever hate the movie business for fucking up Bane in the movies.

X-men (and other xovers) I forget the name of the saga but they all had issues with a small hologram on the cover. I remember Magneto ripping out Wolvs adamantium...that was pretty sweet. Speaking of this...I miss those special edition comic covers...the hologram covers, foil covers...cut outs...good times.

I know there are others...i just cannot think of them now.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I was looking through my old comics, I recall enjoying the X-men Onslaught and Zero Tolerence arcs...but lookign through them again...they do not appear to be too good. I think it was shortly after these...I stopped reading (I think when Maggot was introduced ...i quit)

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Ive heard people mention the X-mens age of apoc, I sadly missed out on this till the very end. So I didnt get much of what was going on. I wish they had graphic novels of shit like this.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by LeHah

Well, count your blessings. On one hand, graphic novels are coming out all the time. However, Marvel has this lovely trend of lowballing theirs; they're reprinting all their classic stuff - but its on cheap newspaper stock and in black and white. I want all the old 70s Ghost Rider stuff - but not if its in the cheapest form ever invented.

On a similar note - I found it very odd that Dark Horse didn't bother putting their original (,excellent) Aliens Versus Predator series to TPB when the crappy-ass movie came out.

Yeah that black and white shit is ridiculous, I think I saw some spiderman books like that. My old roomate had most of the DH Alien V Predator, I paged through some of it ...seemed decent. I refuse to believe there was ever an Alien Versus Predator movie, actually I refuse to believe in anything that Paul Anderson would be involved in.

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