Since we are in the throes of DCU: Year One. What has been everyone’s favorite comics read this year on the app?
My favorites have been:
Cyborg (read as part of book club)
All-Star Superman (recommendation from @biff_pow on my recommendation thread)
Catwoman: When in Rome (random read)
And DC Comics Presents (which coupled with All-Star has made me start to like Superman a lot more)
So what are some of your favorites you got to read this year because of the original comic upload and 23,000+ comics library addition?
Batgirl: Year One
Manhunter (2004-)
Gotham Central
Nightwing Annual (1997-) #2
Batgirl New 52
The Long Halloween was fun. I remember liking Huntress: Year One. I’m currently enjoying the George Pérez run of Wonder Woman. I’m sure I’m missing a lot, I’ve read so many
Great Rao, Suffering Sappho and Neptune’s Beard, where to begin? This is all random and I’ll probably forget some gems, but what the hell, here goes (99% of these were re-reads):
-Justice League Elite
-Divine Right: The Adventures of Max Faraday
-New 52 Blackhawks
-Extreme Justice
-Rebirth Justice League
-Rebirth Action Comics and Superman
-The Spectre (thanks to the Book Club; I’d only read random issues beforehand)
-Golden, Silver and Bronze Age Superman
-Golden, Silver and Bronze Age Action Comics
-The Movement
-DC Comics Presents
-The Brave and The Bold (original series and the ‘00’s volume)
-Lobo (90’s mini)
-Lobo (original ongoing)
-Lobo Unbound
-The Power of Shazam!
-Justice League International (original and New 52)
-Justice League Europe
-Justice League: Year One
-DV8
-Morrison’s Doom Patrol
-all of DC Retroactive
-Swamp Thing (2016)
-The Authority v1
-WildC.A.T.S (first year of the first series)
-New 52 Batman and Robin
-The Darkseid War (from New 52 Justice League)
-Dark Nights: Metal
-early 80’s Wonder Woman
-70’s/80’s Justice League of America
-Brad Meltzer’s run on Justice League of America
-The Rock of Ages (from Morrison’s JLA)
-New 52 OMAC
-Superman v2 #75
-Hitman
-Ambush Bug
-Ambush Bug: Year None
-Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade
-Superman Adventures
-The Flintstones (thanks again to Book Club; I previously had no interest in this series)
-Future Quest
-Rebirth Harley Quinn
-assorted volumes of Legion of Super-Heroes
-Legion Academy, from Adventure Comics
-Legion: Secret Origin
-Titans (2008-2011)
-The Titans
-The Shadow War of Hawkman
-The Sinestro Corps War
-War of the Gods
-Geoff Johns and Jim Lee’s run on New 52 Justice League
-Superman Unchained
-The Daring Adventures of Supergirl
-The Supergirl from Krypton arc of Superman/Batman
-Gail Simone and John Byrne’s run on The All-New Atom
-Gail Simone and John Byrne’s run on Action Comics
-everything pertaining to Convergence
-Justice League Adventures
-oodles, oodles and oodles of Superman series/books
-the Engelhart and Rogers run of Detective Comics
-Prez (the modern series)
-Telos
-Green Lantern/Green Arrow
-selective portions of Geoff Johns’ first Flash run
-Grant Morrison’s Flash
-Mike Grell’s Green Arrow
-Green Arrow/Black Canary
-Black Canary (mini-series)
-Batman: Gotham Adventures
-New 52 Team 7
-Warlord (all whopping 2 issues that are here)
-Gotham Girls
-Gail Simone’s Birds of Prey
-JSA
-Starman (some of it I’d read before, other issues were new to me)
-Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E.
-Doug Moench and Kelley Jones on Batman
-Stormwatch: PHD
These are pretty much just in the order I thought of them, but also kinda vaguely organized by author-ish except for some of them (and aside from a few Rebirth titles, I hadn’t actually read that many comics before DCU, so you’ve basically asked me what my favorite comics are):
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Batman: The Long Halloween
Birds of Prey (Simone’s run is the best, but as far as I’m concerned, there’s not a single bad issue in the first two volumes)
Chuck Dixon’s Nightwing
Chuck Dixon’s Detective Comics
Chuck Dixon’s Robin
George Perez’s Wonder Woman
Mark Waid’s Flash
Mark Waid’s JLA
Kingdom Come
Denny O’Neil’s Question
Denny O’Neil’s Azrael
Batman: Shaman
Batman: Venom
The pieces of Denny O’Neil’s original ‘70s Detective comics run I’ve read
Batman: Knightfall (Especially the parts written by - guess who - Denny O’Neil (and also Chuck Dixon))
Cary Bates’ and Greg Weisman’s Captain Atom
Englehart/Rogers ‘Tec (Thank you, Vroom, for reminding me of this one)
Giffen’s and DeMatteis’ JL/JLI/JLA (and their initial run of JLE for that matter)
Batgirl (2000 series)
Geoff Johns’ Green Lantern
Peter Tomasi’s Green Lantern Corps
52
Peter David’s Young Justice
John Byrne’s Man of Steel miniseries
Paul Dini’s Detective Comics
Marv Wolfman’s Batman
John Ostrander’s Suicide Squad
The Death of Superman
Devin Grayson’s Titans
All Star Comics Issue 58 on
All Star Squadron Thomas
Wonder Woman Byrne
Aquaman 1994 David
Young Justice David
Supergirl 75-80 David
Hawkman Geoff Jones
Outsiders 2003
Teen Titans 2003 Geoff Jones
Justice League of America Meltzer
Spectre Ostrander
Wonder Woman Straczynski, 601 first arc
New Frontier Darwyn Cooke
Batman Superman Wonder Woman: Trinity Wagner
Starman Robinson
Batman &.Robin 2009 Morrison
Batgirl 2009
Power Girl 2009
Planetary
Supergirl Cosmic Adventures in the 8th grade
Legion of Super Heroes in 31th Century
Birds of Prey Simone
Villains United Simone
Secret Six Simone
Aquaman 2011
Demon Knights 2011
Frankenstein Agent of Shade 2011
Justice League Dark Lemire
Huntress mini, Levitz
Worlds Finest, Levitz
Earth 2 Taylor 17 on
Superman Lois and Clark
Titans Hunt
Aquaman 2016
Wonder Woman 2016, Year One
Detective Comic 2016
Green Lanterns 2016
Flintstones
I really want this app to not only mark what I’ve read but count them. I think I’m well over 1,000. That is one heck of a bargain. At the top, in no order
Flintstones - flipping awesome
Manhunter- Rucka writes Kate Spencer
Doom Patrol - Young Animal version is A+
Superman book club - it’s Superman, even the dated, weird whatever are great
Mr. Miracle - had to post Learning to Love King Kirby because of it
Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olson - Kirby era just fantastically wacky
Injustice, try to read just one, can’t do it
So,so many more
W/O thinking & looking at my notebook. I know for sure Godhead, Rotworld, Madame Xanadu, Camelot 3,000, all fit that list. Forever Evil Blight, on Suicide Squad side The Janus Directive. Also, I was shocked at how good the Katana & Deadshot & El Diablo & Boomerang most wanted mini- series were for ones I’ve never heard of. There’s tons more but those were ones that were right off the top of my head when I saw this post. Oh, sorry, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the Doom Patrol especially Grant Morrison’s run but really all of em from silver age on.
Just started Wildcats loving it so far. Started with ‘92, just finished version 3.0 and am about to start nemesis. B4 I attempt to figure out order for 2008 worlds end crossover, which is had to find an order for, cuz every site thinks I’m asking about the other worlds end dc crossover. Even if I put Wildstorm in front of it. Before I get there I’m gonna read all the others. Gen 13, Stormwatch, The Authority. Since these are all new areas for me it’s tough to find an order but I’m gonna do it, then read the JLA/ Wildcats, JLA/ Planetary & the other Wildstorm related one that’s slipping my mind at the moment.
Planetary, Gotham city central, Kingdom Come. So many more,. Also really enjoyed rereading Wally West flash stories I haven’t read since I was a kid. Finally got to read all the Dark Knight Returns and sequels. Read flashpoint a few times. So many to choose from it’s been a fun damn year for reading
I’ve enjoyed a lot.
My favorite has to be the Detective Rebirth. I really enjoyed those.
Others include
Batman rebirth
Superman/Batman(the comics the movies were based off of)
Long Halloween
Arkham Knight prequel comics.
Deathstroke Rebirth
New Teen Titans (1980)
Harley Quinn (Both of the most recent ongoing series)
Starfire
Green Arrow (2001)
The various Convergence Tie-in Mini-Series
Damage
Superman Original series
The Man of Steel
Without looking, I really liked Hitman. Also, Wildstorm: Michael Cray and Mark Russell’s Prez. That’s the stuff I read on here, anyway. I also checked out some Vertigo stuff I thought was pretty great recently like Unfollow, Lucifer, and Invisibles.
