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[Nacmir]

I don't recall anyone saying X-Factor was the best comic in the medium in this thread.

Best X-book? Yes.

But what Punchy said is another debate entirely, that wasn't really being had prior to him making that post.

Thus, my poking fun at the Watchmen thing.

I know, but when we recomend stuff, we can go with different criteria: you can recomend watchmen or JLI, for different people and different tastes. Theory of reception says that a book-reading experience is composed of what the book expects plus what the reader expects.

[DMM]

Avengers Academy is really really good.

Is it still good? I dropped right around Fear Itself (along with a bunch of other stuff). Is it worth getting back into?

[Punchy]

Give me some mainstream examples of team books that are better.

Bendis' Avengers books.
Avengers Academy
Thunderbolts
Wolverine & The X-Men
Uncanny X-Force
Fantastic Four and FF
The Ultimates

[Punchy]

Hate to say it but I'm with Chris on this one. Watchmen is nowhere close to Moore's best work and I'd easily recommend something like X-factor to people before I did Watchmen.

Crazy talk!

[chap22]

Is it still good? I dropped right around Fear Itself (along with a bunch of other stuff). Is it worth getting back into?

yes.

[The Shadow]

Thunderbolts is up there, but Parker doesn't have nearly as long of a "its been a great book" run as PAD dfoes. He didn't really, IMO, come into his own on TB till after FI

Yeah, Ellis on TBolts was really good too.

X-Men Legacy might be a contender

Yep!

never read it, but I heard good things about Batman Inc

Same here.

would IDW's GI Joe: RAM count as mainstream?

Sure.

That's a pretty short list though.

[The Shadow]

I don't recall anyone saying X-Factor was the best comic in the medium in this thread.

Best X-book? Yes.

Yeah, I've never said BEST BOOK OUT THERE... but certainly the best and most consistent X book.

[The Shadow]

Bendis' Avengers books.

Too inconsistent.
Inconsistent?
Yep.
Avengers by Bendis?
Yeah.
You think it's inconsistent?
Yeah, too much sameness and reliance on events.
Events?
Yep.

Avengers Academy

Not reading it so no comment.

Thunderbolts

Hard to argue.

Wolverine & The X-Men

... really? Give it 5 years with the same writer and see.

Uncanny X-Force

Meh.

Fantastic Four and FF

Hickman is certainly channeling his inner Lee and Kirby.

The Ultimates

All show... no row.

Gorgeous art though.