Comments on: Sunday Brunch: 10/18/09

By: Random Thoughts! (October 20, 2009) | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:46:45 +0000

[...] Thought! Bill asks: "What was the best last issue you ever read? Last, as in, final. As in, there were no more to [...]

By: Mary Warner

Mary Warner — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:01:32 +0000

Now that I’ve thought about it some more, I do really like West Coast Avengers # 102. (I refuse to call it Avengers West Coast.) Even though I really hate the Force Works travesty that it led into.
For those who think that Civil War invented the idea of Iron Man being a total dick, this issue is evidence that those personality traits have been around much longer.

By: dhole

dhole — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:37:34 +0000

I’m kind of fond of Marvel Two in One number 100.

In those days Marvel didn’t do a lot of final issues that weren’t last minute cancellations, often mid-storyline that had to be finished in a different book. But the Thing’s last team-up with himself as Ben Grimm was a pretty nice send-off for the series, as I recall.

Best final issue in terms of leaving me wanting more: Shadow no. 19! Gotta re-read those crazy Helfer issues someday!

By: Robert Wolfe

Robert Wolfe — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:09:00 +0000

G.I. Joe issue #155.

By: Matt Lazorwitz

Matt Lazorwitz — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:40:30 +0000

Sandman #75. Perfect, beautiful thematic coda, and hey, Shakespeare!

By: Mary Warner

Mary Warner — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:24:29 +0000

I remember D’Arc Tangent #1. Was it the last (only) issue? It is true I never saw any others.

By: Doug M.

Doug M. — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:11:56 +0000

Has everyone forgotten D’Arc Tangent #1?

Morrison’s last Doom Patrol issue wins “last issue _of a run_”, hands down.

Doug M.

By: David B

David B — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:17:17 +0000

Watchmen #12, followed by Starman #80 and Y: the Last Man #60.

By: Tekende

Tekende — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:54:16 +0000

The Automatic Kafka ending, with Ash Wood and Joe Casey explaining why they are killing him off, always seems to be what i think of in regards to great final issues.

Ooh, good call. That’d be high up on my list as well.

That was a really good series overall. Shame it didn’t last longer.

By: Matt Bird

Matt Bird — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:34:05 +0000

Dakota North #5. That is one ridiculously fun comic. And it ends with a series of questions that were never answered. Will we ever know if the pen wrote underwater?

By: Rob Ocelot

Rob Ocelot — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:22:23 +0000

I dunno about Planetary — aren’t we getting more of it now?

Nice ending (for now) to Nexus in issue #102, but I think I preferred the ending to Nightmare in Blue. The 3 issue arc was done in B&W (for cost reasons) but it had perfect symmetry with Baron and Rude’s original 3 issue B&W magazine format that started the whole thing.

I was tempted to say Cerebus #300 as an ending but it seemed more like a mercy killing rather than a blow out issue.

By: Andrew-TLA

Andrew-TLA — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:06:03 +0000

Flash #350. Sentimental favorite, anyway, since it was also the first Flash comic I ever read. Super-sized, and jam-packed with time travel, supervillians, deathtraps, a guy running really, really fast, and enough exposition that a nine-year-old who had been blissfully unaware of such things as “The Trial of the Flash” or “Crisis on Infinite Earths” was still able to know what was going on.

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:43:14 +0000

What was the best last issue you ever read?

It was either Starman #80, Automatic Kafka #9, or Druid #4.

The first two because they wrapped them up perfectly, the last one because it did anything but – the lead character turned out to be in the wrong, got killed, burnt, and thrown into a skip, and no one missed him.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:52:08 +0000

For me, it was always the last issues of JLI and JLE. Truly the end of an era where super hero comic books could be more than punching and grimacing.
And also Legion of Super-Heroes #37, the last penned Giffen LSH story. Legion was never ever the same after that issue (it got dumbed down, wiped out and it became a different beast ).

By: Daryll B

Daryll B — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:49:49 +0000

The original Exiles #4 from Malibu or Epic or Valiant …..I mean no one expected the events of the issue…and there was even a solicit for a next issue ……Ballsiest issue I read pre-Vertigo

By: Stephane Savoie

Stephane Savoie — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:14:34 +0000

Hmmm, that’s hard. Animal Man 26 is touching, but Y the Last Man is surprising in its goodness.
I thought Gerber did a nice job wrapping thing up with the last issue of Hard Time, all things considered.

By: Mike Loughlin

Mike Loughlin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:54:01 +0000

Transmet, definitely. Y: the Last Man 60 had my favorite last page. Tomb of Dracula, Hitman, Preacher, Spectre, Martian Manhunter, Zot, and X-Man are my runners-up.

By: Scott Harris

Scott Harris — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:22:07 +0000

Sandman Mystery Theatre #70 has to be my choice. Not only for all the great stuff in it, but for the structure itself. Every arc in SMT was 4 issues long, and the last arc is no exception — except the main characters decide to leave the series, so we only get the first two issues of the arc. The mystery, the subplots, the action — all of it is only halfway done and we never find out any of what happens because when Wes and Dian head off to join the war in Europe, they leave behind all the superhero stuff — and so do we. I could not love this series and issue more.

By: Mea

Mea — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:24:40 +0000

Another vote for last issue of “Hitman”. You kinda knew that it was going to end like this, but it was still… wow.

By: sgt rawk

sgt rawk — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:03:22 +0000

Stig’s Inferno Number 7. Ever read Stig’s Inferno? Ty “the Guy” Templeton at his FINEST.