Great job. I can see you put a lot of thought into this. I like the fact that you didn't go along with the current 'anti-Bendis/Millar'- trend. Of course there can never be a 100% consensus on a list like this. I would have added Peter David's first X-Factor run, Alan Davis' Excalibur run, Warren Ellis' Excalibur run, Fabian Nicieza's Cable And Deadpool run, Steve Seagle's Alpha Flight, Gerry Conway's run on Spectacular Spider-Man and Web of Spider-Man of the 80s, Bob Harras' run on Avengers and Namor, David Hine's run on District X, Zeb Wells' New Mutants and Hellions runs, Fabian Nicieza's New Warriors, Matt Fraction's Invincible ironIron Man and Uncanny X-Men and the work Scott Lobdell and Nicieza did on (Uncanny) X-Men ( I know that 's not a fan favourite, but I love the quiet issues of that run). Just my two cents, though. As I said, you compiled a great list.
Glad you liked it. Some of your mentions were considered - David's first X-Factor run, Davis' Excalibur, but had to be left out in the end. Some, I admit, had never crossed my mind. The day I list Bob Haras in a video, you can be sure my family is being held hostage is a shed somewhere. There are also great short runs that I hope to include in a future video. Check out Ellis' Nextwave, if you haven't yet. It's an underrated joy. Thanks again for the feedback.
@@comicbelief got to agree that the Cable & Deadpool run was the best Deadpool series (except perhaps Uncanny X-Force but that's more of a team book). I also think the X-Men Animated comic run in the 90s was good X-Men too. Ease of access definitely helped.
As hardcore Thunderbolts fan thank you so much for adding the classical series run on your list, a lot of people don't give appreciation to the OG Thunderbolts series. I would've also recommend putting Warren Ellis' Thunderbolts as it was really different take on the incarnation team and how it tied to other Marvel comics during the Post-Civil War era. Also there are others like Bendis' Dark Avengers, Dematteis' Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt, and Mark Miller's Wolverine series.
I had to make a choice of how many issues constituted a run, and picked 14 issues as minimum, which excluded Ellis’ Thunderbolts, Bendis’ Dark Avengers and other brilliant works like Ellis’ Nextwave or King’s Vision. I hope to address shorter runs along with limited series in a future video.
I think this and your other videos are great lists. I noticed you had Conan on there, so I was just wondering if you also had considered other licensed works like the marvel Star Wars series when making this. Of course as time goes on you may read more runs you've missed out on or new runs that don't exist now. Some people might make brand new lists every once in a while but maybe instead you could do a 'Another 10/20/Whatever Great Marvel/DC Runs' when you hit the right amount. Or you can just leave this as it is, regardless this stuff is great. Keep up the great stuff!
I did consider Star Wars, but I thought best to reserve it for a specific video about it. Larry Hama’s GI Joe was almost included as well. I’m working on a video focused on limited series and short runs, so hopefully some of the gaps will be filled. There’s a lot of material for us to talk about. Glad you liked the video.
Always fun to see someone else's top 100. I made my own top 200, but here are runs on my top 100 that didn't make yours: Moon Knight by Moench/Sienkiewicz, Amazing Spider-Man by DeFalco, West Coast Avengers by Englehart, Excalibur by Claremont/Davis, Spectacular Spider-Man by DeMatteis, Moon Knight by Lemire/Smallwood, Young Avengers by Gillen/McKelvie, Exiles by Winnick, Nova by Abnett/Lanning, Untold Tales of Spider-Man by Busiek, Master of Kung Fu by Moench/Gulacy, X-Factor by L. Simonson, Doctor Strange by Stern, Cable & Deadpool by Nicieza, and Ghost Rider by Aaron Nice list though. Always great to see love for Steve Gerber's Howard the Duck and Man-Thing runs. Gerber is one of my favorite writers for Marvel that doesn't get much love.
Millar's #554-557 is some of the best FF I've read. Trumps anything Waid did and I love that run. Only beaten by Hickman's run in the middle to end of the first omnibus...
I've been going through every issue of Marvel comics starting from FF #1, and I'm in the early-mid 70's now, and I am only about a third through the run, but I think Don McGregor's run on Jungle Action deserves to be here. Some of the best written stuff out of Marvel at that point so far, in my opinion.
It was a tough one. I did include it in the Best of the Rest video, though. That’s an ambitious project, to read everything Marvel ever published. One guy did it and went to write a book about it. All of the Marvels, by Douglas Wolk.
My top 5 favorite Marvel comic book runs 1. Frank Miller & Klaus Jensen's Daredevil 2. Joe Kelly's Deadpool 3. Josh Weadon & John Cassady's The Astonishing X-Men 4. Garth Ennis' The Punisher 5. Stan Lee & Steve Ditko's The Amazing Spider-Man
Hey, I have the issue from Peter David's run on the Incredible Hulk where Hulk fights Wolverine. And speaking of Ultimate Spider-Man, I have 16 volumes of the Ultimate Spider-Man comics. But I need to collect 6 more volumes before I get to the Death of Ultimate Spider-Man Arc. I haven't forgotten about the rest of the Ultimate Universe.
Well, by “modern run” I refer to the last 20 years. And the only two writers to make a mark on the character in the 21st century are Slott and Straczynski. I’m a huge fan of Straczynski, but Slott’s run made far better use of villains, of Peter, and has a longer shelf life. I don’t put him as the best Spider-Man run ever… that goes to Lee and Romita still… but his is THE Spider-Man of the modern era.
@@comicbelief That's awesome, dude! And yes: post-"One More Day" Spider-Man was designed and spearheaded by Slott. I like Straczynski's voice for Peter more, and his collaboration with John Romita Jr. is hard to beat, but Slott had a knack for writing exciting and engaging stories. I'm actually surprised you didn't put Zdarsky's "Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man" and Tom Taylor's "Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man" on here, as I thought those were incredible modern Spider-Man runs as well.
@@MastermindAXL Zdardy was a serious contender. His Spider-Man Life Story makes my top 10 in the limited series video. But I just couldn’t fit him in this one.
Un run que para mi gusto falto fue el Wolverine de Mark Millar, son de las mejores historias del personaje. Enemy of the state, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D, Old man Logan. (Wolverine Vol. 3 20 - #32 / #66 - #72)
I agree with the Marvel runs but the Best Modern X-Men run aren't Grant Morrison's New X-Men run but Jonathan Hickman's X-Men run is the Best Modern X-Men run. Daniel Way's Wolverine run is the best Wolverine run.
It’s a matter of personal taste, but I love Ultimate Spider-Man. Even though the series interacts with the rest of Ultimate Marvel, it is pretty self contained throughout. It’s very well written, characters grow, the story actually ends. I like Slott’s run a lot, but Ultimate is in its own league. By the way, a Ultimate Marvel reading order video is coming up next.
@@comicbelief Well what a good timing to ask XD Thank you very much for the answer is that I was looking for the best Runs to meet the character in the comics and these always appear in the options
@@_Zarick_ Ah, for a new reader Ultimate is absolutely the way to go. Now understand that the Ultimate Universe is a separate one from the main continuity, so it only interacts with other Ultimate titles. But it’s more streamlined and modern, and it has only one writer, so the quality remains high and cohesive for most of it. It’s a great jumping off point.
@@_Zarick_ You might also want to check out Chip Zdarsky’s Spider-Man - Life Story limited series. It reimagines the character as aging naturally through the decades. So he fights the Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus as a teen in the sixties, he is in his forties when Venom appears in the 1980s, and so on… It’s a short but very enjoyable read.
Obviously there’s a lot of personal taste involved. There were a few runs I regret not including, and Fraction’s Iron Man is one. But I thought the list was too 21st century heavy already and something had to go. The best excuse I can give is that I wouldn’t know what to take out.
@@MastermindAXL From the top of my head, Chris Claremont’s New Mutants and Excalibur, Peter David’s first X-Factor run, even Larry Hama’s GI Joe was a contender at one point. There were also a few short runs that I later included with the best limited series video, like Jim Starlin’s Warlock and Captain Marvel, Roger Stern’s Captain America, Warren Ellis’ Thunderbolts and Nextwave, Mark Millar’s Wolverine… but the one run that should have been included but wasn’t is Peter Gillis’ Strikeforce Morituri.
I like Spencer, though I didn't love his Spider-Man. Maybe I liked Slott's run so much that I didn't give his successor a proper chance. I might have to revisit it. For some great Nick Spencer runs, check out the next video on tuesday.
Well, Spider-Man appears 9 times. But what makes Daredevil notable is that for the first two decades, the character was very bland before Frank Miller revamped him into what he is today.
@@shengcer True. But it’s very rare for Daredevil post-1981 to have a bad run. There was Chichester in the 90s, Diggle in the early 2010s, Soule more recently… everyone else I consider highly recommend…
Found the list a little underwhelming. Here are some I missed: Ewing's Ultimates Abnett and Lanning's Nova Stalin's Warlock Englehart's Doctor Strange Claremont and David's Excalibur Ellis's Thunderbolts (12 issues) Carrey's X-Men Legacy Bendis' Dark Avengers Brubaker's X-Men Remender's Secret Avengers Remender's Uncanny Avengers Lemire's Old Man Logan Slott and Gage's Avengers Initiative Winick's Exiles Maybe I stretched it, but there are some outstanding runs in the list
True. Some of these were just too short, and will have their place in another video. Starlin’s Warlock, Ellis’s Thunderbolts, other series like King’s Vision or Ellis’s Nextwave… they are awesome, but are 12 issues or less. I had to make the cut somewhere as to what I considered a run.
Iron man, I grant you, is a controversial choice. It ties into Civil War 2, which is certainly not great, but the Infamous Iron Man series that follows is. As for his Guardians, he may not have created them, but he made them into what they are.
@@comicbelief Thank you so much for the answer. U got one more sub, hehe. One last favor, please, Can I ask your opinion on these "controversial" runs?: Action Comics (2015) (Dan Jurgens) Batman Eternal (2014) Batman and Shadow War (2022) (Joshua Williamson) Justice League (2021) (Brian Michael Bendis) Red Lanterns (2011) (Charles Soule) Sinestro (2014) (Cullen Bunn) Doctor Strange (2018) (Mark Waid) The Mighty Thor (2011) (Matt Fraction) Captain America (2018) (Ta-Nehisi Coates) Avengers (2018) (Jason Aaron) Fantastic Four (2018) (Dan Slott) Tony Stark: Iron Man (2018) (Dan Slott) Magneto (2014) (Cullen Bunn) Thunderbolts and Dark Avengers (Jeff Parker)
@@kirilovmyshkin8902 My general rule is that one should follow writers instead of characters. I dislike Dan Jurgens, so I haven’t read his 2015 Superman except for the occasional special issue. Batman Eternal I enjoyed, but it feels more like a Tynion comic that a Snyder’s. I haven’t gotten around to Williamson’s Batman yet, but I usually like his stuff. Bendis’ League is not the best. And I say this as a huge Bendis fan. His best DC work for me is Batman - Universe. For me, both Soule and Bunn are a hit-or-miss. It didn’t even cross my mind to read their Lanterns. But I enjoyed Bunn’s Magneto, for the most part. I did like Waid’s Dr Strange. I think his biggest fault was coming right after Jason Aaron’s run, which is much better. Aaron’s Avengers rubbed me the wrong way. But at least part of it was McGuinness’s art, which I don’t think fit very well. Fraction’s Thor is among of the character’s very best. Even rivals Simonson’s. I had no idea this was a controversial opinion. The movie does suck, however. I enjoyed Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Captain America. Again, his Black Panther is better, but that’s hard to beat. I like Slott very much, but his Iron Man was a bit off… It was not a good pairing and it felt like he was still writing Spider-Man. His Fantastic Four is a better fit. Parker’s Thunderbolts didn’t leave a lasting impression, which is probably not a good sign. I’m very selective about what I read nowadays. Sometimes, great stuff slips by. For instance, I always saw Peter Tomasi as solid, but not amazing, so I took a while to pay attention to what he was doing with Superman. Same thing with Tynion. He was someone I read after I read the better stuff. But he comes up with The Nice House on the Lake and blew me away. We can never judge a comic by its cover.
@@comicbelief Again, Thank you so much for the time. Yeah I try to look for writers instead of characters, but with Marvel and DC and "continuity" plays a mayor role. Supposedly. I'm a fan of Bendis too. I love his Superman (2018), and I was enjoying his Action Comics until John Romita JR... Batman Universe is awesome. Here in Spain we have the full run of Bendis' GOTG, X-Men and Iron Man in beautiful ohc, but there's so many bad reviews on them... even as a fan of his work, I couldn't. Yeah Aaron's Strange is pretty good. And as for Fraction's Thor, maybe you are thinking of Aaron's work? Fraction gets a lot of hate for his work on Thor (Galactus Seed and stuff). I'm thinking of reading Coates' Captain America, but I need to read Spencer's run first (again, controversial run). Maybe you could do a top... 10? (haha) mainstream writers... Marvel and DC... like Bendis or Slott. Just saying.
@@kirilovmyshkin8902 Oh, I really mixed my Thors. Yeah, I was thinking of Aaron’s. Fraction’s Thor barely registers with me. I remember thinking the whole Asgardians vs Galactus was a cool idea, but poorly executed. I understand why some people dislike Bendis’ Iron Man, but I think it’s unfair. I really enjoyed to redemptive Doom arc. And I love Maleev’s artwork. It was Bendis’ last Marvel work, and maybe fans feel a little hurt. It’s not his best work, but it’s certainly not bad. Spencer’s Captain America, I’m not a fan. I actually made a mistake in the video where I listed Spencer’s run when I meant to list Remender’s. Bothers me to this day.
Irredeemable Ant-Man, from 2006, by Robert Kirkman is probably the best of the bunch. It stars Eric O’Grady as a new, unheroic Ant-Man. It had 12 issues. There’s also an Astonishing Ant-Man series from 2016 by Nick Spencer about Scott Lang, which is enjoyable. It lasted 13 issues. But there’s no doubt that Ant-Man works better as a team player. Read the Avengers’ “Trial of the Yellowjacket”, “Vision Quest” and Avengers Initiative for some great Hank Pym, and read Geoff Johns’ Avengers and Matt Fraction’s Fantastic Four for some great Scott Lang.
Great job. I can see you put a lot of thought into this. I like the fact that you didn't go along with the current 'anti-Bendis/Millar'- trend. Of course there can never be a 100% consensus on a list like this. I would have added Peter David's first X-Factor run, Alan Davis' Excalibur run, Warren Ellis' Excalibur run, Fabian Nicieza's Cable And Deadpool run, Steve Seagle's Alpha Flight, Gerry Conway's run on Spectacular Spider-Man and Web of Spider-Man of the 80s, Bob Harras' run on Avengers and Namor, David Hine's run on District X, Zeb Wells' New Mutants and Hellions runs, Fabian Nicieza's New Warriors, Matt Fraction's Invincible ironIron Man and Uncanny X-Men and the work Scott Lobdell and Nicieza did on (Uncanny) X-Men ( I know that 's not a fan favourite, but I love the quiet issues of that run). Just my two cents, though. As I said, you compiled a great list.
Glad you liked it. Some of your mentions were considered - David's first X-Factor run, Davis' Excalibur, but had to be left out in the end. Some, I admit, had never crossed my mind. The day I list Bob Haras in a video, you can be sure my family is being held hostage is a shed somewhere. There are also great short runs that I hope to include in a future video. Check out Ellis' Nextwave, if you haven't yet. It's an underrated joy. Thanks again for the feedback.
@@comicbelief got to agree that the Cable & Deadpool run was the best Deadpool series (except perhaps Uncanny X-Force but that's more of a team book). I also think the X-Men Animated comic run in the 90s was good X-Men too. Ease of access definitely helped.
Amazing video. I just love classic Fantastic Four and X-Men, and this was soo pleasing
Thanks for doing this. I would have made a different Top 10, but you did a good job highlighting the best runs and comics .
Waiting for the best dc runs video. Great work
This is an incredibly solid and well thought out list. Thanks for making this.
Awesome video, I can tell there was a lot of work put in. +1 sub
Glad you liked it. The next one will work as a nice complemment to this video, I hope.
Fantastic video, the DC video is fantastic too! They are very helpful. What about 100 best Indie comic runs ?🙂
As hardcore Thunderbolts fan thank you so much for adding the classical series run on your list, a lot of people don't give appreciation to the OG Thunderbolts series. I would've also recommend putting Warren Ellis' Thunderbolts as it was really different take on the incarnation team and how it tied to other Marvel comics during the Post-Civil War era. Also there are others like Bendis' Dark Avengers, Dematteis' Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt, and Mark Miller's Wolverine series.
I had to make a choice of how many issues constituted a run, and picked 14 issues as minimum, which excluded Ellis’ Thunderbolts, Bendis’ Dark Avengers and other brilliant works like Ellis’ Nextwave or King’s Vision. I hope to address shorter runs along with limited series in a future video.
Great job on the video.
I think this and your other videos are great lists. I noticed you had Conan on there, so I was just wondering if you also had considered other licensed works like the marvel Star Wars series when making this.
Of course as time goes on you may read more runs you've missed out on or new runs that don't exist now. Some people might make brand new lists every once in a while but maybe instead you could do a 'Another 10/20/Whatever Great Marvel/DC Runs' when you hit the right amount. Or you can just leave this as it is, regardless this stuff is great. Keep up the great stuff!
I did consider Star Wars, but I thought best to reserve it for a specific video about it. Larry Hama’s GI Joe was almost included as well. I’m working on a video focused on limited series and short runs, so hopefully some of the gaps will be filled. There’s a lot of material for us to talk about. Glad you liked the video.
Cant agree on most of the recent ones but spot on for the early years. 👍
Great video 👍😎
Always fun to see someone else's top 100. I made my own top 200, but here are runs on my top 100 that didn't make yours:
Moon Knight by Moench/Sienkiewicz, Amazing Spider-Man by DeFalco, West Coast Avengers by Englehart, Excalibur by Claremont/Davis, Spectacular Spider-Man by DeMatteis, Moon Knight by Lemire/Smallwood, Young Avengers by Gillen/McKelvie, Exiles by Winnick, Nova by Abnett/Lanning, Untold Tales of Spider-Man by Busiek, Master of Kung Fu by Moench/Gulacy, X-Factor by L. Simonson, Doctor Strange by Stern, Cable & Deadpool by Nicieza, and Ghost Rider by Aaron
Nice list though. Always great to see love for Steve Gerber's Howard the Duck and Man-Thing runs. Gerber is one of my favorite writers for Marvel that doesn't get much love.
Ah, Untold Tales of Spider-Man! A hidden gem in a bad decade…
Happy to see Cates Venom here. Incredible book
Millar's #554-557 is some of the best FF I've read. Trumps anything Waid did and I love that run. Only beaten by Hickman's run in the middle to end of the first omnibus...
You might have forgotten about Byrne, Lee and Kirby
I've been going through every issue of Marvel comics starting from FF #1, and I'm in the early-mid 70's now, and I am only about a third through the run, but I think Don McGregor's run on Jungle Action deserves to be here. Some of the best written stuff out of Marvel at that point so far, in my opinion.
It was a tough one. I did include it in the Best of the Rest video, though.
That’s an ambitious project, to read everything Marvel ever published. One guy did it and went to write a book about it. All of the Marvels, by Douglas Wolk.
Hey nice vid. It seems like you've put Rick Remender's name in the section that had Nick Spencer's issues tho.
On the Captain America entry. You are right. That’s going to bug me.
@@comicbelief well you can always re-edit and re-upload, even if it means resetting view counter
oh, fuck yeah.
That video is awesome!
My top 5 favorite Marvel comic book runs
1. Frank Miller & Klaus Jensen's Daredevil
2. Joe Kelly's Deadpool
3. Josh Weadon & John Cassady's The Astonishing X-Men
4. Garth Ennis' The Punisher
5. Stan Lee & Steve Ditko's The Amazing Spider-Man
My complete Marvel runs are:
Walter Simonson's Fantastic Four
Frank Miller and Klaus Jensen's Daredevil
Jason Aaron's Thor
Hey, I have the issue from Peter David's run on the Incredible Hulk where Hulk fights Wolverine.
And speaking of Ultimate Spider-Man, I have 16 volumes of the Ultimate Spider-Man comics. But I need to collect 6 more volumes before I get to the Death of Ultimate Spider-Man Arc. I haven't forgotten about the rest of the Ultimate Universe.
Ultimate Spider-Man is one of the most satisfying character arcs in all of comics.
The only one I feel you have not mentioned is Matt Fraction’s Iron Man - which is possibly the greatest Iron Man run of all-time.
Hey, a fellow Slott Spider-Man fan! Can I ask why you like the run so much? I've never seen anyone put it at the top like this.
Well, by “modern run” I refer to the last 20 years. And the only two writers to make a mark on the character in the 21st century are Slott and Straczynski. I’m a huge fan of Straczynski, but Slott’s run made far better use of villains, of Peter, and has a longer shelf life. I don’t put him as the best Spider-Man run ever… that goes to Lee and Romita still… but his is THE Spider-Man of the modern era.
@@comicbelief That's awesome, dude! And yes: post-"One More Day" Spider-Man was designed and spearheaded by Slott. I like Straczynski's voice for Peter more, and his collaboration with John Romita Jr. is hard to beat, but Slott had a knack for writing exciting and engaging stories. I'm actually surprised you didn't put Zdarsky's "Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man" and Tom Taylor's "Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man" on here, as I thought those were incredible modern Spider-Man runs as well.
@@MastermindAXL Zdardy was a serious contender. His Spider-Man Life Story makes my top 10 in the limited series video. But I just couldn’t fit him in this one.
Un run que para mi gusto falto fue el Wolverine de Mark Millar, son de las mejores historias del personaje.
Enemy of the state, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D, Old man Logan.
(Wolverine Vol. 3 20 - #32 / #66 - #72)
I agree with the Marvel runs but the Best Modern X-Men run aren't Grant Morrison's New X-Men run but Jonathan Hickman's X-Men run is the Best Modern X-Men run. Daniel Way's Wolverine run is the best Wolverine run.
A Question, Ultimate Spider-Man o Slott's Run?
It’s a matter of personal taste, but I love Ultimate Spider-Man. Even though the series interacts with the rest of Ultimate Marvel, it is pretty self contained throughout. It’s very well written, characters grow, the story actually ends. I like Slott’s run a lot, but Ultimate is in its own league.
By the way, a Ultimate Marvel reading order video is coming up next.
@@comicbelief Well what a good timing to ask XD
Thank you very much for the answer is that I was looking for the best Runs to meet the character in the comics and these always appear in the options
@@_Zarick_ Ah, for a new reader Ultimate is absolutely the way to go. Now understand that the Ultimate Universe is a separate one from the main continuity, so it only interacts with other Ultimate titles. But it’s more streamlined and modern, and it has only one writer, so the quality remains high and cohesive for most of it. It’s a great jumping off point.
@@comicbelief Thanks, that was what I most wanted to know
@@_Zarick_ You might also want to check out Chip Zdarsky’s Spider-Man - Life Story limited series. It reimagines the character as aging naturally through the decades. So he fights the Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus as a teen in the sixties, he is in his forties when Venom appears in the 1980s, and so on… It’s a short but very enjoyable read.
Hey, Comic Belief: you didn't include Fraction's "Invincible Iron Man": I'm curious as to why?
Obviously there’s a lot of personal taste involved. There were a few runs I regret not including, and Fraction’s Iron Man is one. But I thought the list was too 21st century heavy already and something had to go. The best excuse I can give is that I wouldn’t know what to take out.
@@comicbelief Cool! If you could make it longer, what would you include? It seems like we have really similar tastes.
@@MastermindAXL From the top of my head, Chris Claremont’s New Mutants and Excalibur, Peter David’s first X-Factor run, even Larry Hama’s GI Joe was a contender at one point. There were also a few short runs that I later included with the best limited series video, like Jim Starlin’s Warlock and Captain Marvel, Roger Stern’s Captain America, Warren Ellis’ Thunderbolts and Nextwave, Mark Millar’s Wolverine… but the one run that should have been included but wasn’t is Peter Gillis’ Strikeforce Morituri.
@@comicbelief Wait, but you did include New Mutants and Excalibur!
@@MastermindAXL I included New Mutants, but not Excalibur. Chip Zdarsky’s Spectacular Spider-Man is also really good
To my twin brother, Nick Spencer's Amazing Spider-Man is the best modern Spidey.
I like Spencer, though I didn't love his Spider-Man. Maybe I liked Slott's run so much that I didn't give his successor a proper chance. I might have to revisit it. For some great Nick Spencer runs, check out the next video on tuesday.
chip Zdarsky’s daredevil is truly elite.
One of my favorite writers right now. Also check out what he’s doing with Batman.
One of my favorite writers right now. Also check out what he’s doing with Batman.
Daredevil appears 6!! times in the top 100. Wow
Well, Spider-Man appears 9 times. But what makes Daredevil notable is that for the first two decades, the character was very bland before Frank Miller revamped him into what he is today.
@@comicbelief Sure but spidey already embeds himself into the American cultural awareness, like Batman. So I am not surprised.
@@comicbelief Also Matt Fraction Ironman is highly regarded by many readers. Why do you think it should not be included on top 100?
@@shengcer True. But it’s very rare for Daredevil post-1981 to have a bad run. There was Chichester in the 90s, Diggle in the early 2010s, Soule more recently… everyone else I consider highly recommend…
@@shengcer That was the biggest lapse of the list.
Found the list a little underwhelming. Here are some I missed:
Ewing's Ultimates
Abnett and Lanning's Nova
Stalin's Warlock
Englehart's Doctor Strange
Claremont and David's Excalibur
Ellis's Thunderbolts (12 issues)
Carrey's X-Men Legacy
Bendis' Dark Avengers
Brubaker's X-Men
Remender's Secret Avengers
Remender's Uncanny Avengers
Lemire's Old Man Logan
Slott and Gage's Avengers Initiative
Winick's Exiles
Maybe I stretched it, but there are some outstanding runs in the list
True. Some of these were just too short, and will have their place in another video. Starlin’s Warlock, Ellis’s Thunderbolts, other series like King’s Vision or Ellis’s Nextwave… they are awesome, but are 12 issues or less. I had to make the cut somewhere as to what I considered a run.
Great again, but no Moon Knight ????
Bendis GOTG and Iron Man? Wow, people on internet throws shit to those runs. Didn't know they were good. Are both runs top tier of their characters?
Iron man, I grant you, is a controversial choice. It ties into Civil War 2, which is certainly not great, but the Infamous Iron Man series that follows is. As for his Guardians, he may not have created them, but he made them into what they are.
@@comicbelief Thank you so much for the answer. U got one more sub, hehe. One last favor, please, Can I ask your opinion on these "controversial" runs?:
Action Comics (2015) (Dan Jurgens)
Batman Eternal (2014)
Batman and Shadow War (2022) (Joshua Williamson)
Justice League (2021) (Brian Michael Bendis)
Red Lanterns (2011) (Charles Soule)
Sinestro (2014) (Cullen Bunn)
Doctor Strange (2018) (Mark Waid)
The Mighty Thor (2011) (Matt Fraction)
Captain America (2018) (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
Avengers (2018) (Jason Aaron)
Fantastic Four (2018) (Dan Slott)
Tony Stark: Iron Man (2018) (Dan Slott)
Magneto (2014) (Cullen Bunn)
Thunderbolts and Dark Avengers (Jeff Parker)
@@kirilovmyshkin8902 My general rule is that one should follow writers instead of characters.
I dislike Dan Jurgens, so I haven’t read his 2015 Superman except for the occasional special issue.
Batman Eternal I enjoyed, but it feels more like a Tynion comic that a Snyder’s.
I haven’t gotten around to Williamson’s Batman yet, but I usually like his stuff.
Bendis’ League is not the best. And I say this as a huge Bendis fan. His best DC work for me is Batman - Universe.
For me, both Soule and Bunn are a hit-or-miss. It didn’t even cross my mind to read their Lanterns. But I enjoyed Bunn’s Magneto, for the most part.
I did like Waid’s Dr Strange. I think his biggest fault was coming right after Jason Aaron’s run, which is much better. Aaron’s Avengers rubbed me the wrong way. But at least part of it was McGuinness’s art, which I don’t think fit very well.
Fraction’s Thor is among of the character’s very best. Even rivals Simonson’s. I had no idea this was a controversial opinion. The movie does suck, however.
I enjoyed Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Captain America. Again, his Black Panther is better, but that’s hard to beat.
I like Slott very much, but his Iron Man was a bit off… It was not a good pairing and it felt like he was still writing Spider-Man. His Fantastic Four is a better fit.
Parker’s Thunderbolts didn’t leave a lasting impression, which is probably not a good sign.
I’m very selective about what I read nowadays. Sometimes, great stuff slips by. For instance, I always saw Peter Tomasi as solid, but not amazing, so I took a while to pay attention to what he was doing with Superman. Same thing with Tynion. He was someone I read after I read the better stuff. But he comes up with The Nice House on the Lake and blew me away. We can never judge a comic by its cover.
@@comicbelief Again, Thank you so much for the time. Yeah I try to look for writers instead of characters, but with Marvel and DC and "continuity" plays a mayor role. Supposedly.
I'm a fan of Bendis too. I love his Superman (2018), and I was enjoying his Action Comics until John Romita JR... Batman Universe is awesome. Here in Spain we have the full run of Bendis' GOTG, X-Men and Iron Man in beautiful ohc, but there's so many bad reviews on them... even as a fan of his work, I couldn't.
Yeah Aaron's Strange is pretty good. And as for Fraction's Thor, maybe you are thinking of Aaron's work? Fraction gets a lot of hate for his work on Thor (Galactus Seed and stuff).
I'm thinking of reading Coates' Captain America, but I need to read Spencer's run first (again, controversial run).
Maybe you could do a top... 10? (haha) mainstream writers... Marvel and DC... like Bendis or Slott. Just saying.
@@kirilovmyshkin8902 Oh, I really mixed my Thors. Yeah, I was thinking of Aaron’s. Fraction’s Thor barely registers with me. I remember thinking the whole Asgardians vs Galactus was a cool idea, but poorly executed.
I understand why some people dislike Bendis’ Iron Man, but I think it’s unfair. I really enjoyed to redemptive Doom arc. And I love Maleev’s artwork. It was Bendis’ last Marvel work, and maybe fans feel a little hurt. It’s not his best work, but it’s certainly not bad.
Spencer’s Captain America, I’m not a fan. I actually made a mistake in the video where I listed Spencer’s run when I meant to list Remender’s. Bothers me to this day.
Does Ant-Man have any good runs?
Irredeemable Ant-Man, from 2006, by Robert Kirkman is probably the best of the bunch. It stars Eric O’Grady as a new, unheroic Ant-Man. It had 12 issues.
There’s also an Astonishing Ant-Man series from 2016 by Nick Spencer about Scott Lang, which is enjoyable. It lasted 13 issues.
But there’s no doubt that Ant-Man works better as a team player. Read the Avengers’ “Trial of the Yellowjacket”, “Vision Quest” and Avengers Initiative for some great Hank Pym, and read Geoff Johns’ Avengers and Matt Fraction’s Fantastic Four for some great Scott Lang.
@@comicbeliefthank you so much
@@sasharogers7066 Scott Lang also dates Jessica Jones for a while in her series Alias, which is highly recommended
No Master of Kung Fu? Bogus
Dan slott spiderman was bad but the only thing great was spiderverse and superior spiderman