Top 11 Comic Books Series.

Just read this off on peiratikos’s website. This was originally from Steve Lieber’s post.

Here’s my top 11:

  1. Blade of the Immortal - Hiroaki Samura (Dark Horse) - Pure genius, the characters are real in my eyes. That’s it’s greatest achievement as a comic book series.
  2. 100 Bullets - Azzarello and Risso (DC/Vertigo) - Crime Noir at it’s greatest. One of the all time greatest comic book series.
  3. Promethea - Alan Moore and J H Williams III (ABC) - Words cannot give justice to this series. The amount you can learn from this series is astounding.
  4. Vagabond - Takehiko Inoue (Viz) - Relatively new in status, but gets read before I’ve left the god damn shop, it’s that addictive.
  5. Inhumans - Jenkins and Lee (Marvel) - ‘If you were a good soldier you’d do as you were told’ . The best comic series to ever come out of the Quesada era at marvel, and god knows he’s done a lot for the place, but this series has never been followed in sheer class, and creativity. Both creators haven’t reproduced anything on this level.
  6. From Hell - Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell (Top Shelf) - I’m going to read this again this summer, but it’s too great a work to not be legendary in status.
  7. Metabaron - Jodo and Gimenez ( Humanoids publishing) - The most insane sci-fi series in the world. Period.
  8. 300 - Frank Miller (Dark Horse) - Completely engrossing. Best thing Frank Miller has ever been involved in.
  9. Channel Zero - Brian Woods (AIT Planetlar) - ‘Your mind is a weapon. Use it’. That line says it all. Brian however has lost his edge I feel.
  10. Shi: Senryaku - Billy Tucci (Crusade Comics) - When I read this I was amazed with the depth of story in each page. It was elevated from simply a poster book to something of a treasure I think few people have read, and few remember.
  11. Kabuki - David Mack (Image Comics) - Poetry and music on a page.