What was/is your favorite comic book?

I used to read comics as a kid, but not anymore.

Too Much Coffee Man!

probably the issue of the X-Men where Jean Grey commits suicide in order to stop The Phoenix.

but also likely The Watchmen... V for Vendetta... the Earth X series (the payoff for reading Marvel comics for 20 years...)

I've never been a fan of comic books, but the few that I've read or owned was the original 'the Crow' (now lost forever somewhere ) and I've read a few Sandman...so I guess darker comics.

In no particular order:
1) Daredevil (the current Bendis era)
2) Daredevil (Frank Miller's run in the 80s)
3) Avengers (Perez/Busiek 80s run)
4) Flex Mentallo (Morrison/Quietly)
5) Alias (Bendis)
6) Top Ten, Promethea, V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing, Watchmen (Alan Moore)
7) The Invisibles (Grant Morrison)
8) Miracleman (Moore and Gaiman's run)
9) Sandman (Gaiman)
10) The whole Kirby/Lee Marvel Universe

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (and) Fat Freddy's Cat

Superman, Batman, Legion of Superheroes, Lois Lane, Supergirl and Archie were the ones I read most often, but the first three would probably be considered my favorites.

more recently, it was generation x........ previously, in my childhood which was a long long time ago......... batman.

yeah, definitely Promethea, Flex Mentallo and The Invisibles too.

my mind has rotted away...

I've never been a big fan of comic books. The only comics I read are in the Sunday newspaper.

disney comics like donald duck or scroge mcduck

I don't really like comic books. Overdone. Rather silly. Corny. This is just IMHO. I don't like how you already have the thing drawn out. Movies give you the story, books make you have imagination. Comic books do a little of both, which to me just ruins everything.

OK, I take this back. I didn't think about non super-hero ones. Archie is the best!

Hare Krishna Comics

This one: http://www.psychoteam.com/home.html (but then I'm biased by relation)
Follow the link to 'a new kyuu'.
Before that, it was Batman from the ancient detectives comics, back in the days when any man of leinsure and commitment could have become batman.
Oh, I was intensely big on the metaphysical sci-fi 'Black Incal' series by Mobius which originally appeared in Heavy Metal before it degraded to mostly sex and violence.

Had you considered that they can be appreciated as art for their mastery of palette relationships, dynamic composition, expressionistic textures... My daughter has been at it for years, and every week she demonstrates usage of some new art technique. The text is as demanding as Haiku. Even where to place the text is quite a compositional art; A 'Far Side' comic would fail if the artist had not orchestrated (probably unconciously) the comparative rate at which captions, bubble-text, description text, blatant graphic content, and slightly sublimated graphic content all congeal in the readers perception for them to 'get it', not to mention it's tough just to fit the text in without ruining the composition. Comics have far more liberty with things like camera angles, but they have to use techniques created by the Dynamists of the 20's to achieve illusions of movement, which movies don't have to do.

Sandman, though, in general I don't really like most comic books and haven't read that many.

Asterix & Obelix
(While listening to the Doors - fond memories... *sigh*)

I loved those! They were hard to come by in Quebec... I used to sneak them from my older brother's room when he was out.

I Feel Sick. It only had two issues.

Unfortunately I don't have anymore of them now and I miss 'em.

Patchouli, Monkey Man Unleashed, Green Arrow and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (based on the TV series of the same name) are the only titles I read regulary, and MMU was only a 3-part miniseries.

I used to like Archie and Betty & Veronica comics. Those romance ones - Love Diary - and stuff were great when I was 13. I really liked the cover of the first Sisterhood of Steel comic, so a friend gave it to me.

As far as regular comics go I enjoyed Preacher, Batman, Hitman, The Tick, JLA and Pitt. My favourite miniseries were The Long Halloween, Kingdom Come, Watchmen, From Hell and V for Vendetta. My favourite one off graphic novel is 'Batman: The Killing Joke'.

I wandered into a comic book store for the first time in a while two weeks ago. Couldn't believe they've brought Ollie Queen back from the dead! Since you're a Green Arrow fan, what was your take on that? What's Connor Hawke supposed to do now... sit around twiddling his thumbs?

Also, I couldn't figure out what they've done to Aquaman's hand (or DC felt the need to make him look younger again).

It was a comic called 'Whizzer and Chips'. I got it every week.

The only ones I ever had were the Dandy or the Beano. I preferred Dennis the Menace (Beano) to Desperate Dan (Dandy) but my favourite cartoon (Winker Watson) was in the Dandy. It was about a schoolboy called Winker Watson and his chums at a very English boarding school who used to get into "wangles" every week, as they called it, usually involving tuckboxes. I still love boarding school stories now

I also liked the strip about Calamity James, but I don't remember which comic that was in, Minnie the Minx (the Beano I think) and the Bashstreet Kids (The Dandy???).

Sheesh, am I the only one who only ever had kiddie comics? Though, a lot of the things some of you are talking about (like Sandman) I would call graphic novels rather than comics.

I liked the way it was handled. Of course, it was written by Kevin Smith who managed to make a niche movie about Catholicism cool.

I know DC comics are hardly consistent when it comes to continuity, but I did always think it was odd to kill Ollie off in the first place when you think that he is a supporting character in The Dark Knight Returns. I know that's only supposed to show one possible future, but I do feel that Frank Miller wrote the definitive end to Batman's story.

Garfield and Asterix and Obelisk.

I was actually rummaging through the junk in my house, the other day, and found this issue of Asterix and Obelix in Swedish, methinks. I tried reading it, and voila, I did get what it was on.

Mause I think I spelled that right, it a very interesting graphic novel about the nazi germany and the jews. Jews were mice, Nazis were cats, American were dogs, I highly reccomend finding this.

The choice of species there seems to imply a natural order of things which does no one justice. At best, it reflects, after the fact, how the dominance of power played out in this particular scenario.

If people are going to include graphic novels, then I'm changing my vote to the Snowman and the one about nuclear war, both by Raymond Briggs I think. The Snowman is just so sad at the end and the nuclear war one is really very scary.

The one about nuclear was was "When the Wind Blows", and it was by Briggs. Not only was it very scary, but it was the naivety of the two protagonists Jim and Hilda that was truly heartbreaking. The fact that they genuinely trusted what the government had told them in the leaflets about 'duck and cover' and that this, coupled with a British 'stiff upper lip', would see them through the inevitable nuclear fallout.

PS - It's not that I never read Beano or Dandy, it's just that I didn't buy them. The only time I ever did read them was in the dentist's waiting room (so it was a choice between that and a 12 yr old copy of Women's Realm!).

That was what upset me so much - they were a very average, not all that bright but trusting couple It seemed to me that's exactly the way that the vast majority of people would react. I read it when I was quite young, and while I got that they were being naive, I also realised that at that age I would respond in much the same way.

Anyone else remember Captain Action?

They're out of print now, aren't they?

I never really read them so don't have a favorite.

I think so, but there are some comic book stores around where one could probably find 'em. I haven't been into one of these in years though.

Hmm, I'm sure I'm familiar with them for some reason. Probably just from standing in newsagents and knowing that there were shelves above a certain level I wasn't supposed to look at. Of course, the things at about head height (for a small child) but above the imaginary line were the ones that have fixed in my memory the most. It looks like the kind of thing they had in Viz....

Dirk en Desiree Tweekeerbellen.

I'm in Quebec, remember? I'd have to find the odd, surviving English comic book store limited to the island of Montreal... I think I'll visit my Mom in Ottawa!.

Precisely!

http://www.viz.co.uk/motorstrips/fatslags.htm

Funny what I remember from when I was very small

(To say I don't remember what I had for tea yesterday!!! Oh wait, no I didn't have any - no wonder I can't remember! )

I also like the Spoilt Bastard, unfortunately they didn't have an example of that.

Dylan Dog.

Superman

The Punisher

Whisper