Got a half hour before I crash.

Gonna steal this from David Pepose and other people who were doing this yesterday. :)

Denny O'Neil and David Mazzucchelli doing one hell of a done-in-one. A story in two-time frames, juggling back and forth between Daredevil and the Two-Gun Kid.

If you've never seen the Mazzucchelli art for this, you're doing yourself a grave disservice. Find this comic!

This Silver Surfer annual came out in between Mike & my run and Cates & Moore's Silver Surfer: Black.

Ethan Sacks tells a stunning Surfer done-in-one tale, and André Lima Araújo's art is gorgeous! If you missed this one, trust me, you missed out!

Mark Millar tells 22 single page stories from the world of Superman Adventures, with the help of a murderer's row of artists. Boy is the comic some serious bang for your buck! Love this to bits!

ZOT! #29, "Looking For Crime" is one of my favorite issues of the book's Black & White run. I talk about ZOT! #33 a LOT (it's one of my favorite comics of all-time), but honestly, that who era of ZOT! is just perfect. In #29 McCloud really shows what makes ZOT! a true hero.

This feels like a cheat. Because you've probably all read it and you all know it's awesome. But there's a good reason for that, it is THE definitive Harley Quinn story-- as told by her co-creators, Dini & Timm-- and it IS awesome!

Byrne & Austin at the peak of my Byrne & Austin fandom telling a story with the hero of my favorite movie of all-time?!! You can't beat that! This is part 1 of a 2-parter... and while the series continued, that was it for Byrne & Austin on the title. But glad to get what I could!

Moon Knight was my favorite book in high school.
And this double-sized, done-in-one issue by Moench & Sienkiewicz felt like I was getting a feature length Moon Knight movie! This was one of my "Read It So Many Times The Cover Fell Off" books.

Want to know where the "Spider-Man With A Cape" costume from the INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE came from?
From THIS issue of What If?.
And let me tell you, THIS is a damn fine issue of What If?!
By Gillis, Broderick, & Esposito, it can get goofy at times, but that's what I love about it!

Giffen & DeMatteis, Maguire & Gordon... telling a story of Batman... on a mission... *disguised* as Bruce Wayne. There's no way that's NOT a perfect comic. None.

This Denny O'Neil script does something unbelievably clever.

If you spoil it in this thread, I *will* block you.

Seriously, find and read this book.

Spidey. Punisher. Doc Ock.

Breakdowns by Miller, finishes by Janson-- so you KNOW it's stunning from start to finish.

Okay. That's 10 books. Gonna put a pin in it there. :)
Time for some shuteye.
ttyl!

Ok, ONE quick bonus round:
The Thing punching a shrunk-down Godzilla!
Dude, THAT'S comics! You can't beat that!
(And good luck finding that collected anywhere! Time to go to the back issue bins!)

Hunt down all of Zenith.
Zenith is amazing.
Morrison & Yowell telling the story of a complete shit heel with super powers who is using them-- and his adventures-- to help his crappy 80's music career, all while facing "Crisis on Infinite Earths" level events.

Kaiji Kawaguchi's Eagle: The Making of an Asian-America President is damn good comics!
It's the movie THE CANDIDATE, mixed with WEST WING, mixed with ALMOST FAMOUS-- as an Asian American candidate for president gives complete access to his campaign to a young Japanese reporter.

As a writer, JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE NAIL is the most annoying Elseworlds comics of all-time.
Because Alan Davis furiously tosses one brilliant Elseworlds concept in after another. Entire forests of ideas are chopped down with the reckless abandon of an unstoppable, creative genius.

In this issue of Marvel Team-Up, Claremont & Byrne gave us the first ever appearance of Arcade and Murderworld. I love this comic so much! This kind of biff, bam, and pow was exactly why MTU was my go-to book as a kid-- w/ every issue starring Spider-Man AND another Marvel hero!

The Cowboy Wally Show by Kyle Baker is freaking brilliant.
If you don't find the "Ed Smith" segment (that's all I'll say, I'm not ruining it for you) funny as all hell, there is something wrong with you.
Same goes for the Hamlet in prison segment.

Okay. That was 5 more. Putting another pin in this because work's gotta get done. :)

Quick bonus round:
X-Men Annual #5 by Claremont, Anderson, & McLeod is just good, clean super hero FUN! The X-Men and FF team-up and beat up evil alien Badoon in an over-sized comic! Pure bliss.

This is a GOOD comic.
AVENGERS #190 will forever be one of my favorite comics for THIS sequence between the Beast and Henry Gyrich. This is the kind of wonderful nonsense you'd only see in a Marvel comic back then.
Stern/Grant on the plot/script & Byrne/Green on pencils/inks.

DETECTIVE COMICS #571 is ingenious.
Barr takes the Scarecrow, a character who'd been around since 1941, and came up w/ an ALL NEW twist:
Instead of using fear gas, what if he used chemicals that took away ALL your fear? That's way deadlier!
All this and perfect art by Davis/Neary

SUICIDE SQUAD #58 wins everything.
Ostrander realized when Grant Morrison wrote *himself* into ANIMAL MAN #25 and #26, he became a character IN the DCU.
So Ostrander picked up *that* character and sent him on a Suicide Squad mission.
That's just wonderful on every possible level.

DAREDEVIL #7 is a perfect comic.
Because comics work best when they play fair.
Example: Spidey defeating Firelord is BS.
We all know it.
DD #7 has DD fight Namor. He can't do squat against him. And Namor beats the crap out of DD. That's fair.
But that's not the whole story...

(Seriously. If you're a fan of Spidey Vs. The Juggernaut or The Thing Vs. Champion or any of the great Marvel Comic book mismatches... THIS comic, DAREDEVIL #7, by Stan Lee and Wally Wood, is the one that paved the way.)

Neal Adams' SKATEMAN is not a comic that can be described.
Only experienced.
And then it can never be forgotten.

It is not done ironically.
There is no humor in SKATEMAN.

SKATEMAN... is.

At some point in your life, you need to read SKATEMAN.

(Also, he gives a kid a grenade.)

Last one tonight.

This story in AMAZING FANTASY #10 gave me a nightmare as a kid. It's by Lee & Ditko and it's messed up.
Jerky bodybuilder from Earth gets to compete in a REAL Mr. Universe competition.
I'm including the twist ending. But you should find & read the whole thing.

If anyone can find it: There's a horror comic (I want to say DC. Might be wrong) where a guy in an ice cream truck winds up in King Arthur's court. He becomes the king's favorite, but he knows that'll only last as long as the ice cream. So he starts scheming...
What's that comic?

Thanks everyone for finding it!
It's HOUSE OF SECRETS #123.
It's another comics I dearly love... because it REALLY messed me up as a kid.
Seriously. I could not sleep for a while.
And for a couple weeks-- I didn't want to eat ice cream.
THAT'S SOME POWERFUL COMICS!

Goodnight!

I've talked about these comics elsewhere on my feed.
They're drawn by Art Adams and they are some of my all time favorite comics: The New Mutants/X-Men Asgard specials and the Comico Gumby seasonal specials.

These are all BRILLIANT.
You really need to read ALL of them!

Okay...

...let's talk about a *different* Art Adams comic I love!

WEB OF SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #2 features Spider-Man dealing with an out of control Warlock (from the New Mutants)... who, in the course of the story, turns into Speed Racer's Mach 5, David Letterman, Godzilla AND King Kong.

There are truly awesome Marvel/DC crossover books.
IMO, the best ones are:

X-MEN/TEEN TITANS

JLA/AVENGERS

SUPERMAN VS. THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
...

...and PUNISHER/BATMAN
HULK/SUPERMAN
&
BATMAN/CAPTAIN AMERICA

They're all truly excellent.
We could talk about 'em all day and all night.

That said, here's the wonky one that you need to get into your cranium. Here's the one that makes you, "What in the hell did I just read?"

BATMAN VS. THE INCREDIBLE HULK is one of the most insane comics you'll ever read.

Batman takes out HULK w/ a kick to the gut.

More than any other scene in comics: The scene where Batman should have DIED.

And Joker, w/ the power of GOD, & he does... THIS.

BEST. COMIC. EVER.

Want to know what was an EXCELLENT series you probably missed out on?

Busiek & Fry's THE LIBERTY PROJECT!

It predated *both* DC's version of the SUICIDE SQUAD that used super-villains *and* the TV show "The Misfits of Science"...

...yet somehow was a cross between the two!

Love Joe Kubert's SGT. ROCK, but his ENEMY ACE comics are my favorites.

Telling war stories from the enemy's POV along with the stunning way Kubert drew the aerial dogfights of WWI made each tale unforgettable.

IMO these are some of the most beautifully illustrated comics ever.

BATMAN #291-294 was, w/o exception, my FAVORITE Batman arc when I was 10.

Batman was DEAD and his Rogue's Gallery was holding a trial to figure out which one of them *really* had the honor of killing him. What a premise!

Was it Catwoman?
Riddler?
Lex Luthor (WHAT?)?!
Or Joker?!

For 3 months I actually thought Batman was DEAD.

(I was 10.)

DEFENDERS #48 was where Moon Knight was put in a death trap. The villain offered him a last drink of beer... which Moon Knight took.

And *SURPRISE* he somehow escaped!
But we never SAW how he did it.

3 months later that MINOR story point was revealed & teenage-me was grateful!

One of the best single issues of any Spider-Man comic is SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #14.

Written by Paul Jenkins and fully painted, both cover & interiors, by the legendary Paolo Rivera.

If you haven't read it, I won't spoil a single panel for you. Because I like you. Find this.

(Last one for a bit. There's work to do!)

INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #150 is pure comic book bliss.
Iron Man vs. Doctor Doom... in King Arthur's Camelot!
That's the comic. They're thrown back in time, they pick sides: Iron Man w/ King Arthur, Doom w/ Morgan Le Fay! What a read!

Just one rec tonight. Need to work. And sleep. Maybe not in that order.

This is a beautiful FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL by Kesel, Immonen & Smith.
The Thing's transported to a parallel Marvel Universe where "Marvel Time" doesn't exist & everyone Ben knows has been aging since FF #1...