Comments on: Top 100 Comic Book Storylines #100-91

By: Dave Anderson

Dave Anderson — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:12:12 +0000

Two of my votes right off the bat — Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck and the Great Cow Race. I’m glad to see they made — and no doubt will help to broaden out — the list, but I wish they had appeared higher. I voted for a different Swamp Thing storyline, but I’m glad to see Love and Death on the list. It’s also nice to see Crawling from the Wreckage, although I didn’t vote for it.

By: Joshua Nelson

Joshua Nelson — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:56:55 +0000

I was about to complain about “Valley Forge , Valley Forge” not making it because I do feel that was the arc that crystallized The Garth Ennis Punisher (Knights/Max/Whatevers) for all eternity and made an iconic shadow akin to Miller’s Daredevil and now Brubaker’s Iron Fist that any ensuing writer must at least be aware of (don’t tell me Hurwitz and Aaron would be doing just fine on their own)… The final pages of that arc are so spare in art and narration, yet they’re so powerful and definitive that anything more than those figures, words, and darkness would flower it up…

That said, I’m going back to re-read “The Slavers”…

By: Sean C.

Sean C. — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:51:13 +0000

“it’s certainly not a comic that someone can read and enjoy if they haven’t been a longtime DC fan. but all of the continuity references, for those of us that get them, are a real reward for our misspent youths.”

Heh. I’m 1987-born, have virtually no experience with Green Arrow, didn’t really affect my enjoyment of it.

By: Eric Henry

Eric Henry — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:42:28 +0000

So far, so good. One of my picks (First Tale of the Demon) has made the list, although I honestly expected it to be higher.

Let’s see how the other nine do.

By: azjohnson5

azjohnson5 — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:16:27 +0000

Bone AND Scrooge McDuck… nice start.

Willing to bet only DKR makes it from my list.

By: BDaly

BDaly — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:06:26 +0000

Hey stealthwise, I also had The Long, Cold Dark at number two. The Slavers is great, as are all the Max storylines. I’m really disappointed that the only one to appear is this low down.

I didn’t vote for any Doom Patrol runs, because I couldn’t split it. I’d imagine one needs to read the whole run, and finish up with Morrison’s final issue.

I actually voted for two Sandman storylines, so I hope at least one of them makes it.

By: Nick Evans

Nick Evans — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:31:22 +0000

Jimmy Corrigan *and* Love and Rockets. CSBG is almost becoming an indie comix site!

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:23:10 +0000

Indeed. There is however a Green Arrow TPB called Crawling Through the Wreckage which regularly gets misquoted as “Crawling From the Wreckage”

By: Blackjak

Blackjak — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:04:34 +0000

Teensy-Weensy nit-pick…

Shouldn’t that be “Crawling FROM the Wreckage”, rather than “THROUGH”?

By: wwk5d

wwk5d — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:44:43 +0000

One thing we need to remember, this is a unscientific poll voted on by people who regularly read Brians posting who felt like voting or were able to vote. If this list is done again in 4 months (or had been done 4 months ago), or if people could only vote for their top 5 or top 3 runs, it could turn out to be very different…

It is going to be a fun list, but I wonder if it is pointless to wonder why such and such isn’ t ranked higher/lower, or why such and such didn’t make the cut…

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:30:17 +0000

I’ve read all of those except Scrooge McDuck, but none of them got my vote.

If I had voted for Punisher then The Slavers would probably have been it.

By: daniel

daniel — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:52:15 +0000

good to hear quiver has at least two picks! i think it’s amazing, but i understand the complaints levied against it. it’s certainly not a comic that someone can read and enjoy if they haven’t been a longtime DC fan. but all of the continuity references, for those of us that get them, are a real reward for our misspent youths.

By: Sean C.

Sean C. — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:53:23 +0000

“and one might not make it because it’s not widely enough liked (green arrow: quiver)”

I voted for “Quiver” too, so there’s at least two votes.

I didn’t put any minis on my list; something about ‘storyline’ just makes me think of one part of a larger whole.

By: Mike Loughlin

Mike Loughlin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:11:34 +0000

I’m just happy my #1 (“Blood of Palomar”) made the list.

By: stealthwise

stealthwise — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:14:30 +0000

The Slavers is awesome, and although I didn’t choose it (I voted for the Long Cold Dark as my #2), I would realistically be able to justify placing probably at least five Punisher MAX stories on a longer list. LCD, Slavers, Up is Down, Black is White, Valley Forge, Valley Forge, Born, and the Tyger are all top-notch sequential storytelling.

By: Omar Karindu, with the power of SUPER-hypocrisy!

Omar Karindu, with the power of SUPER-hypocrisy! — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:39:57 +0000

My take on the Slavers? It’s the one arc of MAX Punisher where there’s at least as much focus on the victims and the society around the crime as on the crime and punishment themselves. When the story’s drawn Viorica well enough that she can be the final, tragic moment instead of Frank’s bloody revenge as per the usual structure, you know the story’s done something different.

By: Enrique

Enrique — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:57:07 +0000

I had Slavers on my vote. It is my favorite of the MAX stories. I hadn’t heard of the sex trade before that and I thought the story had a lot of emotional impact because of the victim. I also thought the old guy was a very good villain. I think Leandro Fernandez was the best of the artists on the MAX run, he is great when drawing Punisher.

Slavers is the only one on my top 10 that has made the list so far. Out of this ten I’ve only read Bone besides Slavers. Several of them look really good, specially Jimmy Corrigan.

By: Jack Package

Jack Package — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:32:38 +0000

The Slavers was a fantastic arc, no doubt. Beats me why it was chosen as the best of MAX Punisher, much less why it was the ONLY MAX Punisher to make the list. Would probably be my third choice, after “In The Beginning” and “Up is Down, Black is White.”

By: Henry

Henry — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:14:54 +0000

I usually pick The Slavers since it’s really the only Punisher arc where not only was that a huge cathartic bit but also the only one that had an ending that made me cry.

By: Dalarsco

Dalarsco — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:54:10 +0000

I agree. I also voted Doll’s House, and wouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t make it or ends up very low on the list. There are lots of great runs that don’t have an instantly identifiable great story. For instance, Born Again will obviously do well, but I think that Millar’s first Daredevil run won’t make the list. Vote splitting will probably keep out a lot of the stuff that was featured in the top 100 runs, and the allowing of minis will ensure that the top of the list is populated by a lot of Moore works and CoIE.