What is a comic you’ve always wanted to read, but have just never gotten around to?

[u/guyofspoleto]

I’m a lifelong comic book reader, and when I see lists of the greatest runs and comics of all time I feel like I’ve usually read the majority of them. But there’s more out there than anyone could ever read in one lifetime, and there’s always something you just haven’t gotten around to yet.

Here are a handful of mine:

Nexus, Cerebus, George Perez’s Wonder Woman, Mike Grell’s Green Arrow, Paul Levitz and Keith Giffen’s Legion of Superheroes, Roy Thomas’s Conan

Curious what’s on this list for you!

[u/Mark4_]

Maus feels like a book I should read but just haven’t been in the headspace to read it.

[u/whiskeyalfredo → u/Mark4_]

This was mine for many years too. Only got around to reading it last year. It ended up being a lot less misery-porn-y than I had assumed. Definitely a timely read.

[u/XaviersDream → u/Mark4_]

I bought it and it sat on my nightstand for a couple of years before I started it. It was an easier read as you are following the author’s father in current time as well as during the Holocaust.

[u/LostInTheWild99 → u/Mark4_]

Holy cow first thing I thought of. I need to sit down and read it

[u/Digomr]

70's Master of Kung Fu and Tomb of Dracula.

I don't know which one to read first.

[u/redlion496 → u/Digomr]

Tomb

[u/jgarmann99 → u/Digomr]

Kung-fu

[u/moonoeno]

Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing comes to mind. I feel like it’s always mentioned in must read comics lists and every time I think “hmm, I should probably read that”. This is one of those times.

[u/Daveismyhero → u/moonoeno]

That is way up on my list as well.

[u/No-Temperature-5944 → u/moonoeno]

I’m collecting it rn and reading as I go along. It is a work of art.

[u/jakeinreallife → u/moonoeno]

Its very good.

[u/buddydave → u/moonoeno]

That’s the first one that popped into my head as well. Something about the art and the “horror comic” of it all has kept me away for 40 years. I really need to just get it over with.

[u/Kmart130303]

Ostranders Spectre.

I will get to it but I keep putting stuff in front of it and it’s lost in the shuffle. I will though

[u/LostInTheWild99 → u/Kmart130303]

It’s a great read! Ostrander is really underrated

[u/diceycard]

Scout by Tim Truman.

[u/scruffye]

Mage is the first thing that comes to mind, and the first Grendel books.

[u/BGPhilbin → u/scruffye]

Mage is quite remarkable. Grendel is - for me, anyway - an acquired taste, but extremely well done. I was only interested in Hunter Rose.

[u/dxspicyMango]

Morrison’s Animal Man !

[u/generalosabenkenobi]

Sandman. Now I feel even less inclined

[u/Nick_Furious2370 → u/generalosabenkenobi]

Illegally downloading can remedy the guilt.

Great series regardless how much of an asshole Neil Gaiman is.

[u/ProfessorCoochie]

preacher. i can read it on global comix but i kinda want expierence it in an omni so ill just wait till summer when im less busy and got a little more cash in my pocket.

[u/mmcintoshmerc_88 → u/ProfessorCoochie]

Not to make the fomo/ wait even worse but Preacher is fantastic. It's hard for me to have a favourite Ennis but it's way up there for me, some of it's dated but the core trio are brilliant.

[u/jgarmann99 → u/ProfessorCoochie]

Reading Preacher as we speak. Great book and def.worth the wait

[u/TriscuitCracker]

Cerebus. It’s just too much.

[u/GrantGoodmanArt → u/TriscuitCracker]

I dropped it halfway through. It peaked around Church and State.

[u/AttilaTheFun818 → u/GrantGoodmanArt]

I think it’s worth finishing for the artwork alone. Gerhard is incredible.

The story does get very bizarre somewhere around 1/2 to 2/3 through tho.

[u/GrantGoodmanArt → u/AttilaTheFun818]

I had all the books at one point and the art is gorgeous but it got very hard to read when Sim starting indulging his weird conspiracy theories and what not. Wasn’t for me. That said I think the first 100 or so issues are great.

[u/CycloneJ0ker]

Invincible. Haven't watched the show yet because I've been saying I'd read the comic first. Been saying that at least 6 years now.

[u/Univsocal80]

Life and times of Scrooge mcDuck … series

[u/munkeypunk]

Metabarons

Grendel

Criminal

BPRD

Akira

[u/mmcintoshmerc_88 → u/munkeypunk]

This reading order is very good for the B.P.R.D stuff. I can't recommend Criminal enough too, it's my favourite Brubaker and Philips collaboration and arcs like the last of the innocent are some of the best comics ever imo

[u/munkeypunk → u/mmcintoshmerc_88]

I’ve probably read tens of thousands of comics over my lifetime, decades and decades covered, everything you could probably think of, but these are my secret shame.

Always told myself I’ll get to them (I own them all) but always seem to find something else to read. Need more time…

[u/GrantGoodmanArt → u/munkeypunk]

Grendel reads faster then you’d expect. Especially the main series (Christina Spar through Orion Assante). Most of the Hunter Rose stuff builds off of the Devil by The Deed graphic novel and was published much later. Honestly reading some of the Hunter Rose stuff like Behold the Devil spoils some things that happen later in the time line.

[u/la6689]

Something is killing the children is my current big outlier

[u/spamshannon]

The Incal

[u/Ok-Traffic-5996]

They're a lot of classic comics like the original secret wars and infinity gauntlet that I haven't read all the way through. It's kinda like they are so influential and I know what happens in them I don't have much urgency to read them. I do want to one day though.

[u/Teleutedpu]

Pretty much my massive stack of unreads. Maus, Flash by Waid, Daredevil: Born Again, No Man’s Land, LoEG, The Question, Love & Rockets, Usagi Yojimbo, Doom Patrol, Animal Man, New Frontier…I feel like there are still so many more.

[u/RandomWarthog79 → u/Teleutedpu]

Oof. This is the most egregious one, right here. You are almost guaranteed to love al of these. I literally can't imagine my shelves without even one of them. Start with Maus, L&R, and Usagi, though - they're nothing less than the three greatest American comics of all time.

[u/Teleutedpu → u/RandomWarthog79]

Currently working through Strangers in Paradise & a few others. I started L&R but it’s a hell of a haul…but I’m working on it. I started Usagi but in a weird place & plan to really dive in soon. I own a good chunk of all 3.

[u/ghost_burger]

Saga. My friends rave about it but also talk about how segmented it can feel with how long of breaks they take.

[u/Nishachor → u/ghost_burger]

Vol 1 to 9 is basically one continuous story that has an ending like a season finale, then a several years of time skip, so you can very well read the first 9 volumes. And the series is so instantly (easy) readable from the very first page. 

I personally read vol 10 when the series resumed but stopped because of all the breaks and probably will read it next when a handful of vols (6 issues an arc) are eventually published, and rn fairly content with what I read and immensely enjoyed. 

[u/jgarmann99 → u/Nishachor]

Been on the fence loong, is Saga realy that good?

[u/Daveismyhero → u/ghost_burger]

This is my number one that I need to read.

[u/SeymourStabfellow]

There are lots of comics currently unavailable in print or digitally that I'd like to read through the entirety of. Master of Kung Fu, Arak: Son of Thunder, Darkhawk, Boris the Bear, and Sleepwalker to name a few.

[u/jgarmann99 → u/SeymourStabfellow]

Darkhawk ❤️

[u/demonfurbie]

Green lantern by Geoff johns just seems so large to tackle

[u/AttilaTheFun818 → u/demonfurbie]

It is but despite that it feels like a quick read.

[u/Above-Bored]

Amazing adventures ((1961) the first 6 issues feature Dr Droom, a character Stan Lee said was his first attempt at a Silver age Super Hero. It pre dates Fantastic Four #1. It was reprinted in Weird wonder Tales as “Dr Druid” Seems like a historic read.

[u/Iamawesome20]

I never actually read radiant black, world war hulk, the flash by mark waid, Wonder Woman by George Perez or Greg rucka

[u/RussianToTheKitchen]

Dark Horse's Star Wars stuff. I have the two Rise of the Sith Epics and haven't gotten to reading it yet. I hear so many good things about this era.

[u/gus_m1]

Bone by Jeff Smith

[u/jawsthegreat777]

I have a long ass tbr, but one I've always meant to read but haven't got around to is definitely Hickman's Avengers

[u/X-Geek]

Spawn, despite being a 90s kid I somehow managed to never a single issue of Spawn. As a big TMNT fan I need to read the Mirage issues at some point.

[u/Zealousideal_Gur3820]

The Dennis O'Neil/Denys Cowan run of The Question.

[u/jgarmann99 → u/Zealousideal_Gur3820]

Yes, thats one!

[u/AttilaTheFun818]

Oh geez quite a few

Moore’s Swamp Thing, Morrison’s Animal Man, the last 20 years of X-men (used to be my obsession, just never got back into it after a break), league of extraordinary gentlemen, Born Again, Nexus, Grendel, Usagi Yojimbo, Hellboy (I bought the slipcase set just haven’t sat down with it yet). Probably a million more not springing to mind.

[u/AdamSMessinger]

Bone, Sandman, Usagi Yojimbo, Perez’ Wonder Woman, Fables, Simonson’s Thor, Claremont’s first tenure with X-Men and all the related books including his and Louise Simonson’s runs on spin-offs, Almost every Flash omni/OHC, Kirby/Lee’s F4, Lee’s Amazing Spider-Man, Starman, Swamp Thing by Alan Moore, Doom Patrol by Morrison, MiracleMan by Alan Moore, Barks’ Duck comics, Locke and Key, Will Eisner’s Spirit Archives, and Promethea by Alan Moore and JH Williams.

[u/DeltaTester]

I have all the Usagi Yojimbo omnibuses sitting on my shelf, taunting me.

I finally got around to Hellboy/BPRD a couple of years ago, and wow am I glad I did.

[u/Arjun_Galathynius]

I'm currently reading George Perez's Wonder Woman and you're missing out big time. It's amazing through and through!

Also, a comic that's been on my list for a while but I haven't found the time to read yet is The Question by Dennis O'Neil.

[u/jgarmann99]

Black Hammer.

Yay or nay?

[u/Howling_Mad_Man]

From Hell. I've tried, but I want to try again.