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Post by sabongero on Apr 25, 2018 12:22:07 GMT -5
The decade of the 90's has a general bad rap in comparison to other comic book written decades in the pats. The illustration-driven & quality writing taking a back seat Image Publishing debut, Speculation bringing in alternative covers & introduction to various "rebooting" to issue #1's, The Clone Saga, and other things that gave the 90's a general image and perception it probably didn't deserve.
I am sure there are many quality writers and stories written in that decade in all publishing houses (Marvel, DC, Image, Vertigo, Dark Horse, etc.).
What were some of the storyarcs, and writers of the 90's decade that you liked?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2018 13:08:42 GMT -5
Like any decade, there were a lot of great comics coming out in the 90s, you just had to know where to look and you couldn't limit yourself to super-hero fare from the big 2. It may have been a lean time for capes and tights from Marvel and DC, it was in no way, shape, or form a lean time for good comics, and there was even some good stuff coming from the big 2.
Ostrander/Mandrake on Spectre
Robinson/Harris on Starman
Stern on Monster Hunters (Marvel Universe 4-7)
Priest on Black Panther
Busiek/Perez on Avenger
Jeff Smith on Bone
Warren Ellis on Stormwatch
Warren Ellis on Authority
Warren Ellis on Planetary
Grant Morrison on Invisibles
Gaiman on Books of Magic
Gaiman on Sandman
Grell on Green Arrow
Grell on Shaman's Tears
Talbot on Adventures of Luther Arkwright
Talbot on Heart of Empire
Talbot on One Bad Rat
Sakai on Usagi Yojimbo
Chaykin/Mignola on Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser
Mignola on Hellboy
Kubert on Abraham Stone
Kubert on Tor @epic
Miller on Sin City
Colleen Doran on A Distant Soil
Linda Medley on Castle Waiting
Carla Speed McNeil on Finder
Ellis on Hellstorm
Terry Moore on Strangers in Paradise
Simonson's Starslammers
Brereton's Nocturnals
Wagner's Sandman MysteryTheatre
J.M. DeMatteis Brooklyn Dreams
J.M. DeMatteis Seekers into Mystery
Chadwick's Concrete
Tom Veitch & Cam Kennedy's Dark Empire Star Wars stuff from Dark Horse
Busiek's Marvels
Busiek's Astro City
Gary Spencer Millidge's Strangehaven
Waid/Garney's 1st Captain America run (Man Without a Country et. al)
Charles Vess' Book of Ballads and Sagas
Art Adams Monkeyman and O'Brien
Paul Grist's Kane
Paul Grist's Jack Staff
Len Kaminski's Scare Tactics
Robinson & Smith on Leave it to Chance
Johnson & Williams III on Chase
Truman's Guns of the Dragon
Shanower's Age of Bronze
Jeff Nicholson's Colonia
Jason Lutes Berlin
Kubert's Fax from Sarajevo
and more I am overlooking or forgetting.
-M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 25, 2018 13:11:27 GMT -5
Neil Gaiman. Alan Moore. Pretty much anything by John Ostrander. Bone. The Adventures of Luther Arkwright. Hellboy. Preacher Transmetropolitan, Sin City. Lucifer. Large swathes of Hellblazer. Sandman Mystery Theater.
I can go on and on.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Apr 25, 2018 13:42:48 GMT -5
I mean, Ghost World.
The '90s were the peak for independent adult floppy comics-that-kind-of-worked-as-art-objects-unto-themselves, especially from Fantagraphics. Now everything is 25 dollar graphic novels, 'an I miss actual comic comics.
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Post by badwolf on Apr 25, 2018 14:43:43 GMT -5
I was reading a lot of Vertigo, and pre-Vertigo like Sandman, Animal Man, Doom Patrol, and Hellblazer.
I recently finished the final volume of James Robinson's Starman, which I completely overlooked at the time. It was really fantastic, and tells a nice complete story in which all the elements wrap up neatly at the end of 80-odd issues.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2018 14:59:48 GMT -5
Waid's Flash.
Dixon's Nightwing.
Ordway's Power of Shazam.
Morrison's JLA.
PAD's Young Justice.
Busiek's Untold Tales of Spider-Man.
PAD's Hulk.
Waid's Capt America.
Byrne's Namor.
Kesel & Nord on Daredevil.
Busiek & Perez Avengers.
First year of Solar, Magnus, X-O, Prime.
First 12 issues of the Authority.
Quantum & Woody.
Moore's Supreme.
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Post by sabongero on Apr 25, 2018 16:42:52 GMT -5
What was the difference between Supreme's first 42 issues as compared to Alan Moore's issue #43 and onwards on that title? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2018 17:14:08 GMT -5
What was the difference between Supreme's first 42 issues as compared to Alan Moore's issue #43 and onwards on that title? #1-40 was Rob Liefeld's version of Supreme. A hyper violent angry jerk with the powers of Superman. When Liefeld hired Moore to revamp his books he was allowed to revamp Supreme.
Moore's Supreme was basically the Silver Age Superman written thru a modern viewpoint. It was Moore's way of showing the Silver Age with all it's silliness could be updated & used without throwing out all the concepts. I loved it. When Moore re-launched Youngblood he carried over a lot of the stuff he had created in Supreme. I did a review on Moore's first year on Supreme: Alan Moore's Supreme
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Post by sabongero on Apr 25, 2018 17:19:41 GMT -5
What was the difference between Supreme's first 42 issues as compared to Alan Moore's issue #43 and onwards on that title? #1-40 was Rob Liefeld's version of Supreme. A hyper violent angry jerk with the powers of Superman. When Liefeld hired Moore to revamp his books he was allowed to revamp Supreme.
Moore's Supreme was basically the Silver Age Superman written thru a modern viewpoint. It was Moore's way of showing the Silver Age with all it's silliness could be updated & used without throwing out all the concepts. I loved it. When Moore re-launched Youngblood he carried over a lot of the stuff he had created in Supreme. I did a review on Moore's first year on Supreme: Alan Moore's Supreme
Thanks for the link Michael James it's good to read about old school "Superman" like the way he was in Superfriends. |
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Post by Bronze age andy on Apr 25, 2018 17:43:34 GMT -5
Lot of great ones mentioned ( I especially liked seeing Namor chosen)
I'll add my love of Thunderbolts 1-40 or so and the first 30 plus issues of Iron Man Vol. 3.
Busiek was on fire in the late 90's!
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Post by berkley on Apr 25, 2018 17:53:51 GMT -5
I mean, Ghost World. The '90s were the peak for independent adult floppy comics-that-kind-of-worked-as-art-objects-unto-themselves, especially from Fantagraphics. Now everything is 25 dollar graphic novels, 'an I miss actual comic comics. Yes, and reading Ghost World as it came out in the individual issues of Eightball was a very different experience to reading it as a collected whole. For me it worked much better reading it as separate instalments or episodes. I'll name Poison River as one of my favourite 90s story-arcs. It was probably the peak of my Love and Rockets fascination and there haven't been many serial stories in any medium that I've looked forward to the next instalment as much as I did this one. |
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 25, 2018 19:43:04 GMT -5
 Roger Stern - Action Comics  Roger Stern - Adventures of Superman  Grant Morrison - Animal Man  Marty Pasko - Blackhawk  Larry Welz - Cherry (guilty pleasure) |
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 25, 2018 21:51:01 GMT -5
 Mike W. Barr - Doc Savage  Grant Morrison - Doom Patrol  William Messner-Loebs - Flash  John Ostrander - Grimjack  Mark Evanier - Groo the Wanderer |
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 25, 2018 23:00:14 GMT -5
 Grant Morrison - Hellblazer  Peter David - The Incredible Hulk  Bernie Mireault - The Jam  Keith Giffen & J.M. DeMatteis - Justice League America  Keith Giffen & Alan Grant - L.E.G.I.O.N. '90 |
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Post by brianf on Apr 26, 2018 1:11:26 GMT -5
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