Hate is brillant and Messnor-Loeb Flash didn't make my list as I resticted myself to one run per character but is my second fav Flash run its fantastic.

Anyway stop reading this in America and go track down 2000AD its well well worth it!

Incidentally, I was reading T-Bolts regularly during Busiek's run, and then I kept with it for at least a year or so after Nicieza took over . . . and eventually gave up. His writing on those characters just didn't excite me. I'm very surprised it even made #137!

All Star Squadron is like the LSH, but during WWII. Interesting and enjoyable, and I guess part of the fun also is seeing all those different characters interact with one another.

Definitely need to check out Nicieza's Thunderbolts. I loved it when Busiek was on the title, but gave up towards the end of the run (since I got out comics for a brief period at that point).

And Zenith. How on earth did enough people get hold of it to make it a contender?? I came across it completely by accident in a shed load of 2000AD comics I read. I guess if it was made available in color trade it would zoom up the charts.

I suffered through The Crossing and Heroes Reborn, but it was Bendis that finally ended my nearly 2-decade reading of the Avengers. I bought it out of habit for awhile, but ultimately realized that I was buying a book I hated and, most months, didn't even read before filing it away. I love the Avengers, it'll be nice when they finally come back in a few years.

It was also pretty interesting that they made Katar into the "rich kid" liberal fascinated by Earth's democracy and human rights, while Shayera was the hard-line conservative that grew up in poverty. Man, screw continuity, that series started out great!

*I'd consider it all one, despite the gap. after a brief bit, he picks up the main post #50 plot thread, which is the redemtion of Zemo, surely one of the most ambitious superhero stories ever. Why Nicieza doing that to a Neo-Nazi never attracted more attention to the book astounds me.

Everything prior to issue 50 was a bit of a mess, yes, but everything after was so well done.

Exploring the idea of heroism through the eyes of a character as flawed as Zemo was just fascinating to me. He's Marvel's best character right now and no one uses him.

I thought X-Factor Volume #2 got 63 pts.

Did I say that?

Oops!

It got 72 points.

It was on my list.
I came across it near the end of the run, and eventually was able to get all the issues.
Roy Thomas did a wonderful job of using the Golden Age stories as source material and fleshing out the characters, backgrounds, and events. And he threw in some new ones as well.

Johnny Quick, Liberty Bell, Firebrand, Tarantula, Phantom Lady...

Ostrander's Hawkworld should be reprinted, but I doubt DC will bother with a series people had trouble fitting into (ugh) current continuity. The Ostrander Hawkwoman is my favorite comic book "tough" heroine, along with Big Barda. If you liked Hawkgirl on JLU, her personality came from the Hawkworld version.

I'd love to read the Messner-Loebs Flash, as I've read nothing but good things about it.

Messner-Loebs Flash: better than Waid's.

I think I still have one of those HATE t-shirts in a dresser drawer somewhere.
It seems to me that out here in the 100+ numbers we're getting into people's more personally cherished "special" books, as opposed to "consensus" books that everyone "knew" would place highly and not be embarrassing to vote for. (Well, not for everything, but a number of the books "out here" seem to fit that description.)