classic long running one writer series: Favorite and why??

[Winghead]

There have been a lot of really great long running titles, especially stuff that has been released by Vertigo. I am putting this in the general DC group because a lot of them were originally published by DC before Vertigo and I figure more people read this group than the imprint one. Which was your favorite and why?

(I'm leaving Watchmen out because I figure it will win by a landslide and it wasn't long enough to be considered a long running serie

[Winghead]

I'll say Sandman even though they are all great. Just a lot of awesome literarry references, and very ahead of its time. I'm also partial to Gaiman because I've read all of his novels as well.

[Armadillo]

Yeah, Sandman is my pick as well.
Why? Awesome stories. that's why.

[Winghead]

add James Robinson's Star Man to the list. I forgot about it.

[jerrymcl89]

I'd have voted for Sandman anyway, but Fables ought to be on the list.

[Plex]

I really enjoyed all of these books but the best one for me was Sandman. The combination of story and artwork kept me in comics when I was getting burned out on everything else. I finally got all the absolute Sandman hardcovers and look forward to obtaining the absolute Death when it comes out. The only other title that I would say is a close second to this series for me is the currently running Fables book.

[Aghast]

What about Brian K. Vaughn's Y, The Last Man?

[Shellhead]

I thought that Y the Last Man was better than anything on your list, including Alan Moore's classic Swamp Thing run. Though starting from a silly premise (one man left on a planet full of women), Vaughn had a lot to say about society, gender, and the interplay between the two concepts. Nearly every issue included at least one interesting fact, and there were some great insights into human nature. All the main characters had very distinct personalities and viewpoints, and the interaction between them was an ongoing source of entertainment.

Sandman got lost after a while. Gaiman stopped writing about Morpheus and instead used the comic as an outlet for various, miscellaneous stories that he wanted to tell, generally about characters that didn't particularly interest me.

Milligan seemed less interested in telling a story that interested me and more interested in weirdness for the sake of weirdness. I may still go back and buy some of the early issues that I missed from Shade, to see if it at least started strong.

Moore definitely wrote an outstanding Swamp Thing run, but I couldn't stand Abby anymore. She was so shrill and annoying that it constantly grated on my nerves.

Transmet seemed too close to its Fear & Loathing roots for me to stick around. Preacher seemed too crude and deliberately shocking for me to take it seriously. I haven't tried the rest of the titles on your list. And I can't think of any superhero titles that were better than the top half of your list.

[Winghead]

Damn, I forgot about Fables, Y and Starman!! is there a way to add them to the poll? Can a poll be edited?

[daveageallen]

alan moores swamp thing truly was amazing. he took so many great elements from the original run, and added scifi and myths and religion and a weird super back story about the parliment and the green and made it so good.

the retcon still stands up to this day. in my opinion the only one that was needed, making swamp thing not alec holland but plant trying to be and not realizing that its not man.

[Wilder Midnight]

stan lee and jack kirby's "fantastic four".

[4thHorseman]

I voted Preacher. Other than Swamp Thing, it was the only one I have read the entire run of. And as great as Swamp Thing was, it didn't have me buying the TPB's one after the other like Preacher did.

[discodicky]

I started rereading transmet today- how brilliant can one comic be?

[Eumenides]

Swamp Thing: one of the cornerstones of modern comics. If it didn't invent, it popularised the self-contained run that everyone nowadays at Marvel, DC, Vertigo, etc. tries to emulate.

Plus it was one of the first stories to explore 'how would a super-being work in the real world', which is another staple of modern comics.

Furthermore, the intellectual and mature growth of Swamp Thing from a plant-based creature into a god is still light-years ahead of the so-called mature comics of nowadays, full of characters acting not only like teenagers, but like retarted teenagers.

And finally, it just had the most beautiful love relationship in comics.

[Munkiman]

Sandman, most assuredly.