Post your favorite (or at least good) one-and-done issues. I've gotten into more characters this way than most huge overblown story arcs.Detective Comics 567 written by Harlan Ellison, it portrays Batman as a complete asshole and takes the piss out of him. Good clean fun.
>>153339241what's the appeal of humiliating a character in their own book
>>153340239appealing to non-readers and/or author venting
>>153339241This is exactly why superheroes and realism don't mix
>>153340239It made Tom King a superstar
>>153340239Another anon from the batgod church I seeBatman don't make mistakes
>>153340239It's Harlan Ellison dude, he was a cantankerous old jew, but it was clearly just played for laughs, guy loved Batman for decades.
>>153340239It's fun.
>>153339241For a guy who hates capeshit, Moore understood how to write for it like no one in his cohort or after him could. Every issue of Swamp Thing can be read on its own with no prior knowledge. Anatomy Lesson sets up the rest of his run, but on its own it’s a phenomenal horror story.
>>153342844>hates capeshit,>Moore Moore probably cracks. awry smile under his beard reminiscing about Silver Age Superman. He love this stuff. He had a few years in his 20s and 30's cracking jokes on them and pushing boundaries, but he still loves the genre.
This is what Superman is all about and doesn't involve him punching space invaders.
>>153342844He hates it now, mostly because he hates the industry itself, but he used to be a huge fanboy.
>>153342844Why do people keep peddling this lie? Because Watchmen?
>>153345759Probably because of all the more recent press with Moore expressing his distaste for the genre and industry now. It's easy to believe he felt this way back then given the brutality of his big two work.
Tec 783 from the early 2000's, it's just Batman stopping a serial killer who is basically D Fens from Falling Down only his mother drove him nuts by being a fucking bitch, and there's an extremely kino batmobile segment in the finale
>>153342844Don't agree that Moore hates capeshit, but speaking of Moore, his story in Batman Annual #11 is one of the best, and most unfairly forgotten Batman stories. It displays one of Batman's best facets: His hope and willingness to help his villains reform.
>>153347613Interesting.
>>153339241>>153347613>>153350047Batman works best as one-shot stories anyway. The root of Batman is as a police procedural or detective story like Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot, or pulp detectives like The Shadow or The Spider, he solves a crime or mystery, story done. If Batman as a concept would've remained as one-off detective stories, it never would have impacted his appeal.
>>153345759Probably has to do with the 20 years of interviews where he says he hates them and thinks they are bad for society. I think he's a bit of tsundere for superheroes though, even as an old man writing regular novels he can't stop himself from writing capeshit.
>>153350158>If Batman as a concept would've remained as one-off detective stories, it never would have impacted his appeal.He would have been discontinued long ago.
>>153339241ya know this reminds me Harlan Ellison also wrote this crazy really good issue of Daredevil where Deathstalkers mother makes him run a gauntlet of traps in an old mansion as revenge
>>153339241Doctor Strange (vol. 2) #66 is great. Strange goes looking for the Dalai Lama’s latest reincarnation and shenanigans ensue. Paul Smith’s art is great, the plot is tightly paced and very entertaining, and the entire concept is down-to-earth in a way that somehow fits a cape as out-there as Dr. Strange.
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>>153342844Tygers is a good example of his hand with the short form as a standalone. Subtle, and insidious in it's ambiguity. Unlike what was done with it afterwards.
>>153351410Who's the writer? And would you recommend this run?
Marvel Fanfare #47, just a really fun romp, with some of the best art of Michael Golden's career. Honestly Marvel Fanfare is a good source for great one-shot, self-contained Marvel stories by great creative teams in-general.
>>153342763--ny. Funny!
I miss PAD
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>>153351410I like the one where the backwards extraimensional barbarians decide they want bigger and better weapons so they start magically stealing ours, eventually working their way up to nukes. (sound familiar?)
>>153352614Roger Stern, and absolutely! Honestly, the entirety of vol.2 (Master of the Mystic Arts) is fucking great. There are very few bad stories in it, and they’re mainly done by guest writers. I’d sincerely recommend the entire volume, starting from the beginning, and can safely say it’s probably my favorite ongoing ever. Englehart, Stern, and even Claremont all contribute some really good stories with even better art.>>153355545lol, that was a good one too. Despite being super of-its-era, Stern wrote it very well. I sometimes wonder what it would’ve looked like with Miller penciling. That’s not to say that Blevins did a bad job— just that it would’ve been very interesting to see a simulated nuke drawn by Miller.
>>153352485To date, it's still my favorite Green Lantern-related comic.
>>153350047I love that Clayface story. It's from an annual or something, right? Every story was about a villain having some kind of romance, and Penguin's was sweet too.
>>153355292Mary Jane doesn't seem to care about what's going on
>>153359157>It's from an annual or something, right?Yeah, Batman Annual 11. Story goes that when rumors started about Alan Moore doing The Killing Joke, fans thought it was for an annual, so DC begged Alan Moore to write this to have something in the Batman annual before The Killing Joke was officially announced.
>>153360732That's cool. And he just pulled out two nice, soulful stories out of his back pocket.
>>153355843Interesting.
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That time Leia went up against Vader on planet switzerland. A nifty little bit of galactic intrigue actually
>>153365793I had to look up if this issue came out before or after Empire Strikes Back, it would've been cool if this issue established Vader being able to deflect blaster shots, but this issue came out in '81.
Another cool Dr. Strange one-shot from Marvel Fanfare #41, featuring some very Moebius influenced artwork from Watchmen's Dave Gibbons.
Just read the new Punisher epic collection, and really enjoyed v.2 #81, Bodies of Evidence.Some cops get a tip on one of Frank's safehouses, and the issue centers around an academy hotshot trying to wrap his head around Frank's psyche going off of the evidence left behind.None of the shit actually mattered or had any significance. The whole thing was just a setup from Frank to help draw out a crime boss.Punisher has a lot of fun one-offs that really make me lament that we can't just have a procedural TV show about him. It'd be so fucking cheap and easy to do.
>>153359697She's looking at Peter's ass
>>153367914Wouldn’t you?
I really liked this one
>>153369244No. That's gay.
Speaking of moore....
Good thread.
Coincidentally probably one of the better points to jump off the already sinking ship.
Just a really funny book in a long line of funny books
>>153339241The Bacchus Color Special is one of my favorites. It's connected to the King Bacchus arc, but is mostly standalone.
If I was in charge of a Punisher television show, this would definitely be an episode
>>153340239why do people get so upset over a hero making a mistake? how hard in the taint do you self insert that you feel as if it were a personal slight?
>>153376005Honestly it's the best place to end it. Peter gets closure with Uncle Ben, he's still with MJ, it's a full circle place to end it.
>>153376077That was a good thread.
>>153378011It's a shame it went to hot shit so soon
>>153377966It's a bit of cheating to do graphic novels, but those old Marvel ones are short enough that they're really just glorified Giant Sizes.I like Punisher: Intruder. Frank sneaking around a military base like Solid Snake.
