Michael Walsh tweeted:
If you had to recommend someone read 5 comic book runs/graphic novels to really get a feel for you/your tastes what five would you pick?
Mine were:
Promethea by Alan Moore, J. H. Williams III & Mick Gray
Essential Fantastic Four vol 4 by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
We3 by Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely
Magnus Robot Fighter by Russ Manning
The Ministry of Space by Warren Ellis & Chris Weston
Runners up
Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
Buck Rogers by Philip Nowlan & Dick Calkins
Planetes by Makoto Yukimura
Erma Felna by Steve Gallacci
Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. by Stan Lee and Jim Steranko
If you had to recommend someone read 5 comic book runs/graphic novels to really get a feel for you/your tastes what five would you pick?
— Michael Walsh (@Mister_Walsh) September 4, 2018
Invincible
Planetary
Saga / Prophet
Artesia
Order of the Stick / Dungeon
But also Boneyard, Luther Arkwright, Thieves & Kings, A Distant Soil, The Sword, half a dozen other things…
I mean, 5 doesn’t even cover all the genres, let alone give a good spread of my tastes.
Powers
Astro City
Saga
Planetary
Kingdom Come
Runners up: Tom King (Vision, Batman), Dan Brereton’s The Psycho and Nocturnals, Watchmen and V for Vendetta . . .
Yeah, there isn’t time to list the runners-up.
HOW THE HELL DID I MISS ASTRO CITY.
HOW THE HELL DID I MISS NOCTURNALS?
Elfquest (original B&W series)
Love & Rockets
RanXerox
Lone Wolf & Cub
A Manual of Cheap Living in Greater Tokyo