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by **covalesky** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:37 pm

All New Atom managed to squeeze in. GREAT! Its an underrated book.

by **misac** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:08 pm

Like on the other lists, I'd like to do three entries per day, so this is the final entry of day 1. An odd pairing, we have a Japanese book, a definitive American book, and a indie book that took a long time to come out. But was a fairly short run.

160. 8 points - Lone Wolf and Cub (Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima)

If people were to step away from the American superhero comic book industry for just a little while, they'd find that one of the most important and influential works in the medium is Lone Wolf and Cub, the long-running manga series about stern-faced ronin Ogami Itto. Okami Itto travels Tokugawa Japan with his son Daigoro righting wrongs, helping the helpless, and all the while seeking bloody revenge on the Yagyu clan, the murder of his wife. Itto is one of the greatest "grim-faced avenger" characters in any medium (or maybe more accurately, every medium–the book has been adapted to films, television, and even a video game), and although the story has its roots in Japan's past, the storytelling may look familiar to superhero fans, since Kojima's figure drawing and page layouts are decidedly Western-influenced.

159. 8 points Sgt. Rock (Kanigher/Kubert)
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Joe Kubert is one of the best artists of all time and if you disagree you can kiss my ass. With that out of the way, Sgt. Rock was created back in 1959 by Robert Kanigher in the book GI Combat, an anthology book set in WWII. There were a couple of early versions of the character to use the name, the final one being the leader of Easy Company in issue #81 of Our Army At War, a group of badass soldiers with various special skills. Easy Company and Sgt. Rock became a fixture of the book and continued to star for decades. While other characters like Enemy Ace were created and had prominent roles, the next 20 years were mostly about Rock and Easy Company. In 1977 with issue #302, the name was officially changed to Sgt Rock. There were also various one-shots, digests (precursors to the modern OGN), and whatnot by the same team. The book ran until 1988, where it ended with issue #422. Kubert continued to work with the character off and on in various stories over the year, most notably in Wednesday Comics in 2009 where he did the art on a story that his son, Adam, wrote.

158. 8 points - Black Hole (Charles Burns)

What if there was an STD that turned you into one of the Morlocks from the X-Men? That's the central theme of this series. Charles Burns wrote and did the art, creating trippy, interesting designs and unique layouts that tell as much of the story as any of the words. A book that fully utilizes the medium, it's something that wouldn't work as well in a book and wouldn't have the room to tell its story as a movie. Published over 10 years from 1995-2005, the book's original publisher, Kitchen Sink, actually went out of business and threatened to end up with the book never being completed. Luckily, Fantagraphics republished the first four issues that Kitchen Sink released and then was able to release the rest of the book as well.

http://173.199.169.70/index.php/features/the-outhouse-top-lists/11987-your-top-creative-runs-part-3.html/

by **chap22** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:12 pm

misac wrote:Third article is coming up in a bit.

how long's a bit?

by **rdrsfn82** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:16 pm

Chap, if you can't wait here's the next group.

[Reveal] Spoiler: Click to Expand

Spider-Man (Todd McFarlane)
Harbinger (Jim Shooter)
New Teen Titans (Wolfman/Perez)

Happy?

by **misac** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:26 pm

Ha! Chap's so impatient!

by **S.F. Jude Terror** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:35 pm

rdrsfn82 wrote:Chap, if you can't wait here's the next group.

[Reveal] Spoiler: Click to Expand
Spider-Man (Todd McFarlane)
Harbinger (Jim Shooter)
New Teen Titans (Wolfman/Perez)

Happy?

by **Royal Nonesuch** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:40 pm

Lone Wolf & Cub only got eight points? Damn, when I saw that it made the list, I was hoping it would be higher.

by **rdrsfn82** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:43 pm

I forgot to give credit, but Royal did the Lone Wolf & Cub writeup. My bad.

by **rdrsfn82** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:44 pm

Royal Nonesuch wrote:Lone Wolf & Cub only got eight points? Damn, when I saw that it made the list, I was hoping it would be higher.

I've never read it and I think many people are in the same boat. :smt102

by ****** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:48 pm

I don't actually remember what I nominated, but the fact that none of my entries showed up on day 1 leads me to believe Bubba probably "misplaced" my list again.

by **chap22** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:51 pm

rdrsfn82 wrote:Chap, if you can't wait here's the next group.

[Reveal] Spoiler: Click to Expand
Spider-Man (Todd McFarlane)
Harbinger (Jim Shooter)
New Teen Titans (Wolfman/Perez)

Happy?

True story, rdrs is an asshole.

by **chap22** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:52 pm

LW&C -- should probably read this some day

Sgt. Rock -- should probably read this some day

Black Hole -- will never ever read this some day

by **chap22** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:54 pm

also, whoo-hoo, my 10th place pick made it past the first day and i know it's not OPC. at least 1 other person out there has some excellent taste!

by **S.F. Jude Terror** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:58 pm

chap22 wrote:also, whoo-hoo, my 10th place pick made it past the first day and i know it's not OPC. at least 1 other person out there has some excellent taste!

I voted for it too, but I'm surprised you didn't place X-Men Forever higher than 10.

by **Stephen Day** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:09 pm

Night Force is a series that I'm interested in. I enjoyed the 90s series and I've added the DC Comics Presents reprint series of the original run to my pull list.

Quasar at three points -- WTF? It was number three on my list so it should at least have 8 points. Something is wrong here.

I never read Power Company, but I liked Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E.