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83/100

46/100.

80/100 of your list I’ve read.

i’ve read all or most of 66 of the top 100, with another 20 or so that i either own or currently have checked out from the library… so by the end of christmas break, i should be in the 80s

48.

I’ve flipped through more of Gus’s Marvel books than I realized.

45/100

67/100

Best part of the lsit is it gives me some ideas on what to read next…after checking out this “Atari Force” a lot of people mentioned!

26/100….. but I’ve been reading comics for 3 years….

78/100

I could round that up a notch or 2 if I counted things I started but didn’t read enough of to constitute having read it, like Mutant Massacre (it’s where I totally gave up on X-Men until Morrison), Sleeper (read the first 7 issues, then got poor), or Astonishing X-Men/Ultimates 2 (trade-waited after 3 issues, then forgot).

Wasn’t unaware of anything on the list, and a few items on the Marvel side are queued up and ready to read through their digital comics service. The only things I’ve actively not read are Fables and any Marvel-cosmic stuff. It leaves me cold. The highest item on the list I haven’t read would be Age of Apocalypse.

34/100. Ha! I’m terrible.

45/100 but I’ve been reading comics for 43 years. (Just not very many since the 90′s)

I scored about 50%, I guess; it’s a fairly safe bet that I’m unfamiliar with any superhero stuff written by Bendis/Millar/Johns or published after 1999 or so, Morrison’s pre-Batman stuff and Punisher excepted.

No Love & Rockets, Greg. For shame!

83/100

30/100

62/100, although if I counted some of these that I read partway and abandoned, it would be slightly higher.

I’ve read ten of these, and parts of eight others. And I’ve been reading comic books since around 1974. I seem to be the least well-read person who visits this site regularly, or at least of the ones who comment regularly. I thought I had a pretty huge collection, but I guess maybe I don’t.

I’ve read three that you haven’t, though, so I guess that’s something.

96. Oddly, of the groups I was s’pposed to write about, I hadn’t read 3 out of ten.

And you really, REALLY need to read Church and State. I’m 95% sure you’d love it.

42/100

wow, only 44, and some that I know I should have, although not the one’s you’d think.

It’s kind of funny, I’ve read a lot of the ones at the bottom and a lot of the ones at the top, but I’m missing a lot in the middle. I wonder what that means?

I’ve read 89/100.

If you count the ones I’ve read some of, but I’m not sure whether it’s enough to count — half, or a little less, generally — I’m at 93/100.

I wouldn’t have expected to be anywhere near that high, mainly because of newer stuff. The oldest thing on the list that was on my “I don’t know if I read enough of this to count” was Age of Apocalypse.

kdb

50/100, 7 of top 10. 16 of top 20

1 out of the top 10, 3 out of the top 20, 12 out of the top 50, 27 out of the top 100

73/100 – not bad for someone who reads 95% Marvel

read almost all of the dc and marvel stuff on your list and working on sandman and love and rockets keep planning to get around to finaly reading it.

32/100. At least I read all the Sandman ones.

6 of the Top 10

68/100. I’m missing a lot of Vertigo, Indy and a couple of the older Marvel sagas.

81/100

Pretty much everything except Cerebus, Love & Rockets and some 80s/90s DC (Death of Superman, Judas Contract) Highest not read was 11. “The Great Darkness Saga” – Legion of Super-Heroes #290-294.

I’m gonna list all the ones I’ve read, partly for my benefit, partly for bragging–eh, who knows?
I’ll use a loose definition of having read; a lot of the single issue stuff I’ve only read parts of (e.g., I’ve read House of M issues 1, 3, 4, 5, & 7–it counts!) Hit the page down key if you get bored:
97 (all three)
96
94 (both)
88 (both)
87
86
84 (both)
83
82
80
78
75
74
73
68
64
61 (both)
58
56
55
53 (both)
49
46
45
44
43
42
39
36
34
33
32
31
29
25
23
22
20
19
15
14
13
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
3
1

That’s 58. There’s not much here that I missed that I’m particularly interested in. I’ll get around to the rest of Year One, I’m not quite to the points in Transmet and Y that were included on this poll, and I’ve read a lot of Powers but not the first arc.

Thus ends my solipsism!

I miscounted. I’ve only read nine of these.

Wow. Kurt Busiek was here.

I’ve read like 33 of these. I must be a bad nerd. Or a super elitist one. Yes.

74/100. 80/100 if you count the half-read ones.

22 of my favorite stories ever and another 24 that I love a lot.

Three comics I actively dislike, including one I which would rank in the top ten if I were listing worst stories I’ve ever rear.

47/100

I thought my number would have been higher!

71/100 – I’m missing all the Sandman and Cerebus stuff plus various items here and there.

For me it’s 85/100. Some of which I could have gone without, to be honest. For example, “Hush” was a massively overrated little storyline with pretty artwork.

And I should probably give “Y the Last Man” another chance one of these days.

75/100 for me.

And 48 of the Top 50.

59/100, and I’ve read parts of 4or 5 others. I was expecting to be closer to 80/100.

42 by my count!

53/100 for me.

That’s 21 as Marvel UK/trade paperbacks. The other 32 as monthly comics when they first hit the newsagents and comic bookshops.

I’m kinda chuffed that I’ve read all of the top 15 and bought 13 of them on their original publication date. As I had limited pocket money in the 80s and no part-time job, I had to choose. Good to know that I chose well.

63 plus some partials and maybe some stuff I’ve forgotten I’ve read. And some of the stuff I will never read despite it making this list and probably being at the library.

I think you’d probably enjoy Cerebus, too. But I would almost pay just to see your review of something by Chris Ware (assuming your wife and kids aren’t cleaning your brains off the wall after you read it).

32/100

But i didn’t know Brubaker’s cap was volume 72 (winter soldier entry)… a relaunch every year or so?

67/100

86/100

Super Comic Book Junkie that I am: 98/100

These are the ones I have not read (but will, one day)

88. “Church and State” – Cerebus #52-111.
87. “The Death of Speedy” – Love and Rockets #21-23.

I’m in the lead!

Best,

Luis Jaime

26/100

88/100, and there are only a few that I haven’t read that I want to (mostly out of historical curiosity/obligation, more than intrigue : Magus Saga, Korvak Saga, Death of Jean DeWolfe, Judas Contract, Spidey 31-33.

I skipped most of the Mega-events of the 90s (Infinity Gauntlet, Knightfall, Death/Reign of the Supermen, No Man’s Land), and I’m perfectly happy with that.

Similarly, Fables failed to make an impression on me, although I suspect I should check out the later volumes, since people say it gets better.

I rarely enjoy Ennis, and didn’t enjoy the Preacher I did read, so I’ll likely never check these out. Same for Dangerous Habits. Similarly, I never enjoy Joss Whedon, so no Astonishing X-Men.

Really, the best thing to come of this list is to reaffirm my desire to read the Magus Saga, and to pick up the Ditko Spider-Man Omnibus.

I´ve read 34 of this completely and 7 of them only parts of.
I have read 5 of this while the list was being mentioned and I am currently reading a few more in the holidays (Preacher, Jimmy Corrigan, Sandman).

I’ve never lived anywhere near a comic shop (except for the two months that I tried to run one out of my home, and the less said about that the better), and the selection at the drugstore around the corner from my house was surprisingly poor, and has only gotten worse over the years, so I’ve only read 27 of the stories, and part of another 10.

17 that I haven’t read:
Scrooge McDuck
Love and Death” – Swamp Thing
The Great Cow Race” – Bone
The Slavers” – Punisher MAX #25-30
First Tale of the Demon” – Batman #232, 235, 240, 242-244, Detective #411
Weapon X” – Marvel Comics Presents #72-84
Sleeper Season 1
No Man’s Land
From Hell (one of the few things I haven’t read here that I care about correcting)
Mutant Massacre
Infinity Gauntlet (just rack-skimmed enough to get the plot & that it wasn’t worth it)
Under Siege” – Avengers #270-277 (must’ve been faltering purchases going to rack skimming, as I remember generally what happened but know I definitely wasn’t a regular buyer of the book at this point)
“Kraven’s Last Hunt” (Spidey dead zone period, possibly on leave from comics entirely…?)
The Judas Contract
The Age of Apocalypse
The Great Darkness Saga
Born Again

Read all of? About 80.
Read some of and then gave up on? About 10. (Lots of Sandman and Fables and Ennis in this group)
Read none of? About 10. (I should really tackle Love and Rockets one of these days. And Sleeper. And Scrooge McDuck. I dunno about Thunderbolts.)

To confirm Greg’s suspicions, 100/100.

Heck, I would have to go pretty far down on the list (past the top 200, for sure) before I hit a story that I haven’t read (most likely a 2000 AD story, as I’m spotty with my reading there – I’ve read Zenith, a lot of Dredd stuff – including the Armageddon War, and not a lot past that). Oh, and if anyone put any fairly obscure Golden Age stuff on their list, I’m spotty there (I’ve read a lot, but there’s so much of it, ya know?), as well. And, of course, random indie books are difficult, as are web-comics, because there are so many of them and they’re often harder to hear about when they come out.

63
Like others, I thought it would be higher. I was a marvel zombie for much of my life so I suppose I should be impressed. Sandman and Cerebus helped out.

And by the way Burgas, the Louise Simonson, June Brigman run on Power Pack was great, (though I think the fall of the Mutant Masacre was just after Brigman left.) Give them a read.

Here’s my thinking for the next 100:
Persepolis
Chicken With Plums
Concrete
Palestine
Zot
The Winter Men
Cerebus: Flight
Ultra: Seven Days
Miracleman 1-10
Smax (from Top 10)
Top 10: The Forty-Niners
League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2
Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life, vs. the World, and the Infinite Sadness, Gets It Together, vs. the Universe
JLA Earth 2
Mouse Guard Winter 1152
Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite (and also): Dallas
The Escapists
Stig’s Inferno
Like A Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (from Eightball)
Mage I and Mage II
The Jam (Bernie Mirault)
Captain Britain and MI13: Vampire State (will rise in stature with time’s passing)
Reid Fleming (World’s toughest milkman) in: Rogue to Riches
Nexus (can’t figure which run to go with)
The Tick (original Ben Edlund run)
Yummy Fur: Ed the Happy Clown
The Seaguy Saga
Age of the Sentry
The Sword (Luna Bros)

Any other good ideas?

I’ve read 38. More than I was expecting, less than I was hoping. A lot of the more glaring omissions are because I’m painfully averse to putting the time into reading something if I already know what’s going to happen, so I tend not to track down the trades of things that I’ve heard too much about. The Dark Knight Returns, for example, I can quote passages from despite having never read it. The Sandman, on the other hand, tends to be discussed strictly in terms of the quality of the ideas with no reference to the actual plot, so when a friend assured me it was a good as everyone said and loaned me the trades, I had no qualms about reading it.

(That actually brings up the other major reason I haven’t read more of the books and don’t read much indy stuff in general: If I don’t recognize the writer or characters in a book, don’t know what it’s about, and don’t have someone whose tastes I trust vouching for it … that’d basically be like picking a book at random and hoping it’s good, which I don’t have the time or money for.)

78

33/100… if I can count ones I read over half way through before deciding it wasn’t worth my time to finish.

23/100, of ones that I actually finished.

91/100

But of the 9 I didn’t read, I read parts of the storylines, except for that Transmet arc.

93/100

No wonder you have trouble thinking in terms of storylines. You don’t seem to have read many series done by a single person or team, where the entire series was one “run”. It’s pretty easy to separate Cerebus, or Love and Rockets, or Eightball into distinct storylines, even when they’re not explicitly labeled as such.

Ed: I’m not sure if that’s supposed to be insulting or not. As far as I can see, the only ones I haven’t read that are by a single person or team on the list are Love and Rockets and Cerebus. I’d like to read Love and Rockets but haven’t yet, and nothing anyone says about Cerebus makes me think I’d like it. What about Bone, which I’ve read? That’s by a single person, and I’ve read that, and I don’t think of it in terms of storylines, but as a single big story. Even when things ARE labeled as storylines, I tend to think of them as part of a whole. The Dark Phoenix Saga, for instance (even if it’s not labeled as a storyline in the book), is to me a culmination of the “Jean as Jesus” story that began in X-Men #100. You can’t have the Dark Phoenix Saga without the Light Phoenix Saga, after all. But that’s just me.

Whoops – I guess Jimmy Corrigan counts, too. Oh well. Still, my point stands!

No, it wasn’t supposed to be insulting. I understand what you’re saying, and sometimes that might be the case, as in Dark Phoenix, but I don’t think Bone is one big story, anymore than I think the Lee-Kirby Fantastic Four was one big story. Are all the Travis McGee novels one big story?

49 of 100, so I just miss the 50% mark. There is quite bit on there that I want to read but haven’t got around to yet. At least I’ve read the whole top 10.

Greg and Tim (and some others here), you guys sure do read a lot of comics. But Brian, I really don’t understand where you find the time to read that much, especially given all the stuff you do here (and your various other legends revealed, and your book, and, you know, having a life).

52/100

no sandman, love and rockets, cerebus, y last man, only an issue or two of swamp thing and animal man, no doom patrol, transmetro…

Brian, did Slaine the Horned God, Buddha, or Hard Boiled make the top 200? or anything by John Buscema?

But Brian, I really don’t understand where you find the time to read that much, especially given all the stuff you do here (and your various other legends revealed, and your book, and, you know, having a life).

Well, it’s not like I JUST read all of these.

To wit, I haven’t read an issue of Sandman (outside of the ones I dug up for the Cool Comic Book Moments) in about ten years. Too many great new books to read to have time to go back and re-read them, even the classics like Sandman!

My goal was to come up with a list of stuff that (A) nobody else would vote for, and (B) Cronin hadn’t read. Sadly, I didn’t get it done.

And Burgas! Cerebus! It’s beautifully drawn, it’s funny like Bone, it’s about the eb and flow of history (and the individual’s place in it), and I’ve honestly never head anything say anything bad about it… Well, except for the stuff at the end that’s kind of unreadable. But High Society and Church and State should be required.

89/100. The only stuff I hadn’t read were some of the older marvel sagas that I never bothered getting around to and Cerebus: Church and State. Rectified that by placing Cerebus on my shopping list for January. After that, I’ll just settle for making the top 90 (and 100% of all indies on the list)

Overall, I’m feeling pretty good ’bout myself.

it really was a fun list. Enjoyed following it day after day.

Does it count as cheating if Kurt includes Astro City, Marvels, and Avengers Forever on his list?

Oh, I clock in at 59/100, but a few are tossups because I only read about half of them

Adam: Maybe Busiek hasn’t even read those …

Mark: As I started reading comics well into Cerebus’s run, I never got into it. Then, years later, when I started to become interested in it, all I kept hearing was how crazy Sim was, which kind of turned me off. I suppose I should start reading the phone books one of these days until it becomes too nutty!

>> Does it count as cheating if Kurt includes Astro City, Marvels, and Avengers Forever on his list? >>

My list of stuff I’ve read?

I’ve read them — multiple times, usually, because I proofread them, among other things.

I wouldn’t rank them, or vote for them for something. But I’ve read ‘em.

kdb

I believe I’m in the 60-70 range. A good dozen (Fables, Y, Planetary, Watchmen, V) I’ve read in the last few years based on word of mouth through CSBG. Seriously, Brian & Greg should get a percentage from my LCS.

Yeah, you REALLY gotta pick and choose your Cerebus. The first volume isn’t very good, one of the latter volumes is an interpretation of the book of Genesis which I found bordering-on-unreadable – And I’m a layman fan of Bible history – and the second half of READS is the tangents male light/female void stuff which is….

Which is…

Honestly, I like Sim’s prose writing. And still do. And I agree with an awful lot of it, but sometimes he hits me with stuff c-o-m-p-l-e-t-e-l-y out of left field and you gotta shrug your shoulders and say “whoah. Dag.”

But, honestly, I think it’s all kind of interesting, and the crazy stuff is just too far out there to be offensive.

But there is absolutely brilliant work in there: I’d definitely (strongly!) recommend HIGH SOCIETY, JAKA’S STORY, and MELMOTH – They’re all stand-alone volumes with their own plot that doesn’t require you to read everything that comes before.

I’ve not read and probably won’t: The life and times of Scrooge McDuck, Kree/Skrull War, The Magus Saga, Coming Home, Avengers Forever, The Death of Jean DeWolff, The Surfur Saga, If this be my destiny, Mutant Massacre, Return Of Barry Allen, Infinity Gauntlet, Days of Future Past, The Galactus Trilogy, Under Siege, Kravens Last Hunt, The Judas Contract, The Age of Apocalypse, The Great Darkness Saga, The Dark Phoenix Saga (yes really)
I’ve not read but really want to read: Jimmy Corrigan, First Tale of the Demon, Sins of the Father, Reign of the Supermen, Confession, Olympus (damn those out of prints),

In total I’ve read 74 of the top 100, which I’m pretty chuffed with. Most of the ones not read are from the pre mid-80′s superhero genre, which I find almost universally leaves me cold (as much as I acknowledge its all-encompassing influence)

I’ve only completely read 22 of these. 8 others I have read most of or significant portions of – enough that I feel I have some idea of how good it is.

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and AZjohnson Buscema did 1 issue of Kree/Skrull War and breakdowns for Under Seige.

Since he was mostly a mainstream artist, he gets left out too easily when it comes to discussions of great artists.
I’m sure you already know that. His Conan work ranks as some of the best comic art ever, IMHO of course. The recent B/W Conan collections include about 5-6 panels per issue that I stop to look at that panel, and marvel at it.

For the record, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck contains some of the best comic storytelling in the history of the form. Read it!!

I’ve read EXACTLY HALF of these stories. Much more of the top 50 than the bottom 50, which I suppose is to be expected.

Of the 50 I’ve read, I’d estimate that 45 of them would be on my own 100 list, if I drew one up.
(the 5 that wouldn’t are Age of Apocalypse, Death of Superman, Infinity Gauntlet, Civil War and Secret Wars – AoA was terribly uneven, much better in concept than execution, and the latter four were all crowd-pleasing mega-events without very much to say).

There are probably about 10 on the list that I have no intention of reading, ever; three of them because I think they probably sucked (the Ulimates stories and Identity Crisis) , the other seven just because they don’t really interest me.

26 I haven’t read. (or not completely!)

So, 74/100…

Including a couple that I’ve only read half of, 78.

53/100.

Mainly because I’ve hardly read anything from DC in the last 15 years and I’m not a Morrison fan. You Americans show far too much love to that Scot. But each to his own.

And Cerebus? – IMHO the first volume is great especially after Sim finds his feet around issue 8 or 9. If nothing else should persuade you – it’s one of the funniest comics ever. Still, I agree, when things get too serious after Church and State it is not the easiest of reads.

41/100… but i’d say that could go five in either direction because 1) i may have read some of that stuff years ago and completely forgotten i read it, 2) i may have read less issues of said storyline than i thought, or 3) i may have not known that what i read was named / titled with an above storyline (and yes i may have forgotten the issue numbers too).

i dunno if this counts towards anything but i’ve probably read at least one issue of 80 of the storylines up there. thus it would appear that i decided that i didn’t feel like finishing half of them.

I’ve read exactly half of these, 50/100.

72/100 that I’m positive about. I have dodgy memories of five or six more, which could mean 1.) I read them and forgot, 2.) I read only part of them, or 3.) I read part of the run and am now confusing it with the story listed. Call it 72 pessimisticly, 78 or so if we’re being generous.

But I’m going to track down all my deficiencies eventually.

55/100

70/100

Do note that I partially read most of the rest, but either gave up on it halfway or still have to finish (have all the Iron Fist TPBs but still have to read half of them, for example). Doesn’t help that most of the list is so damn RECENT!

Do note I’m not proud of reading lots of stuff there, like Reign of Supermen or anything “written” by Mark Millar.

Hunter (Pedro Bouça)

I want to be counted!

My total is 88 out of 100. Earlier in the original threads I didn’t count Annihilation, because while I have read all 6 issues of the mini-series I did not read all of the lead-in minis, but I have changed my mind on that. I read every issue that was actually called Annihilation, and I’m gonna count it dammit! Also, as I explained previously, but don’t expect anyone to remember, or care for that matter, I did not read every single issue of No Man’s Land, but I read a bunch of them and the Rucka novelization so I count it.

So, my list that I have not read is:
Jimmy Corrigan (although I have read the first 3-4 Acme Novelty Library issues in which it was first serialized so I’ve read part of it).
Blood of Palomar and The Death of Speedy (I have only read 2 issues of Love and Rockets in my life and neither of these storylines were represented).
The Slavers (The only Punisher Max I have read was the hardcover collecting the storylines Man of Stone and Widowmaker. I plan to read the rest soon).
March of the Wooden Soldiers and Homelands (I have just begun Fables this year with the first hardcover Deluxe Edition volume so I will get there eventually).
Planet Hulk (I do own the hardcover collection and will get to it one day).
Whys and Wherefores (I have read Unmanned which also made the list because I am also reading Y in the hardcover deluxe editions so, again, I will get there eventually).
Kree/Skrull War, Magus Saga, and Korvac Saga (The only part of any of these I have ever read is the final issue of the Korvac saga. Although after reading comics for years, official Handbooks, and things like Infinity Gauntlet and Avengers Forever I feel like sort of like I have read them).
Hush (I bought and read the first trade, but didn’t care enough to buy the second trade to find out how it ends).

And then after beginning my post with, “I want to be counted” I forget to put my name on it. That’s me directly above.

Ones I haven’t read:

The two Ennis Punishers (Not a Punisher fan, and haven’t really liked Ennis’ stuff since the Hellblazer days)
The two FABLES arcs (Read the first TPB, just didn’t appeal to me, so I’ve never picked up others)
The two Y The Last Man arcs (someday, just haven’t gotten to that series yet)
Immortal Iron Fist (didn’t care for David Aja’s art)
Bendis’ Daredevil or House of M (I have not liked any of his Marvel work I’ve tried, I see no reason to expect different here)
Annihilation (crossover crap)
Planet Hulk (not a Hulk fan)
Avengers Forever (Had my fill of Busiek’s Avengers with the run with Perez – good run that was)
Final Crisis (crossover crap)
Batman: Hush / Long Halloween (Not a Jeph Loeb fan)
Infinity Guantlet (if Perez lost interest in drawing it half way through the series, it can’t be that good.)
Civil War (crossover crap, and the concept had been done in Marvel U like, two dozen times already)
SINESTRO CORPS WAR (not interested)
X-Men: Age of Apocolypse (not interested)
LoSH: Great Darkness Saga (never really been into Legion; maybe someday)

So I’ve read 80 of 100, and I might read another 2-5 works on the list.

42/100

82/100
If I count partial reads, 86/100.
I’ve been buying the Love & Rockets collections that Fantagraphics released and Moore’s Swamp Thing, so hopefully by next year I’ll be four closer.

EM