Comics that I miss.

[proditor]

Yep. Seconded.

Levitz baxter era Legion.
Morrison JLA.
Perez Wonder Woman.

Crossgen: Sigil, Negation, Scion, Mystic, Way of the Rat.... pretty much thier whole line.
Hardcase and great chunks of the Ultraverse.
DP7 from the New Universe - seeing them again in the pages of Exiles was cool.

Oh hey, I forgot the New Universe entirely. I was a huge Psi-Force fan once things got shifted around a bit and Boyd got featured more prominently. I keep meaning to write him up.

[Suleyman Rashid]

HERO, the most recent incarnation of Dial H For Hero.

The Will Peyton Starman.

L.E.G.I.O.N.

Alien Legion

Suicide Squad

The Elementals

[BigJackBrass]

ROM and Micronauts (the original version) both, certainly, even though one was based on the most disappointing toy ever and the other on some of the best.

I really used to enjoy the old Marvel UK Captain Britain, back when he has the staff and his original outfit (so much better than the generic flag hero getup he wears now). The series was utterly bonkers, of course, and full of errors, but I don't read comics for pure literary merit and factual veracity.

[MCMaenza]

While I could certainly pick some runs on titles with certain creators, I would rather go with title-concepts I miss:

- monthly team-up titles (like Brave & the Bold, Marvel Two-In-One, DC Comics Presents, Marvel Team-Up) set in the main universe continuity that doesn't have six part stories all the time just so they can be collected into trades
- a solid anthology title (like the old DC dollar comics or the relaunched Showcase book of the 90's) that has a couple different tales, with rotating line ups (some one parters, some two, some four perhaps)

[Beetle]

Limiting myself to comics that are no more:

Power of Shazam

Starman - Wil Peyton version (Three votes! It's a landslide!)

Elementals - Willingham only

Most !mpact titles (Fly, Jaguar, Comet, Black Hood)

New Warriors by the original creative team

[John Desmarais]

In no particular order:

• StarMan (Jack Knight)
• Sandman (Wesley Dodds)
• Sandman (Dream, of the Endless)
• The (real) Legion of Super Heroes (pre-Crisis)
• All-Star Comics
• All-Star Squadron
• The Invaders (the real ones, stories set in WWI written by Roy Thomas, not that New Invaders nonsense Marvel recently started).
• New Gods (the first series, by Kirby. Heck, all of his DC work at that time was fun)

[starblaze]

D'oh, I can't believe I forgot about Power of Shazam, I have nearly every issue of this series. Loved the painted covers.

[CrosshairCollie]

My #1 has to be New Warriors, Fabian's run on it. When I was running Champions (4th) at the time, I made myself a WWFD bracelet to wear when I was GMming.

Firestorm, the original Ronnie-and-Martin combo with all the problems that caused, with the original set of nuclear powers. Not the one with Ron and the Russian, or the one with all three yet Firestorm had an independent personality, and definitely NOT the Fire Elemental version. Curse John Ostrander and his elemental fetish.

Wonder Man's own comic. It just ruled, plain and simple. Great writing, great art ... and they gave Wonder Man, who had typically been just an overstuffed can of beef in a costume, some major character development as well as some of the best lines I've ever read ... and the most amusing fight scene, as detailed next.

During Galactic Storm ... Captain Atlas has gotten the Negabands; he clangs them, and switches places with Rick Jones, who is being bodyguarded by Wonder Man. Atlas starts brawling with Wondy, but soon realizes that he can screw Wondy up by swapping places with Rick whenever Simon throws a punch ... he either has to stop or pulp Rick!

This continues for about ten pages (alternating with Starfox and Quasar, who were near Atlas when he found the bands), until Simon 'gets his timing' ... and times a haymaker to land just as Atlas appears (see, the Speed Chart DOES work!). Atlas goes down, and Simon looks at the reader and remarks ...

"Duck season."

[Blue]

Sandman! Good Catch.
I Soooo miss monthly Neil Gaiman.

[FenrisUlf]

Add my voice to the Chorus for ROM, it was "The Day the Earth stood still" meets Green Lantern Corp.

I loved the one too. ROM was great.

Related to the Nova comic, the first run of New Warriors was fanastic use of some other wise under used characters. There was a great synergy. Of course, later Marvel would drop the ball on them utterly. So very very sad.

I liked New Warriors back when they first came out, but got out of comics at about the time Rage lost his grandmother. Just how did Marvel 'drop the ball'?

Nomad, by Fabian took Jack Monroe and made him truly live up to the name. Sure, he had Baby Bucky strapped to his back as he went through America trying to do the right thing... even if he wasn't always sure what the right thing was, but it was some of the best character development I'd seen.
It makes what happened to Jack in Brubaker's excellent run all the sadder.

I vaguely remember this, and it seemed cool. Again, what did Marvel do to Jack Monroe?

[CandidGamera]

Wonder Man's own comic. It just ruled, plain and simple. Great writing, great art ... and they gave Wonder Man, who had typically been just an overstuffed can of beef in a costume, some major character development as well as some of the best lines I've ever read ... and the most amusing fight scene, as detailed next.

Wonder Man's book was surprisingly solid, considering the star. And you're right, excellent writing - that's why I stuck with it so long.

[TheQuestionMan]

My Top 5 Comics
1. Darkstar Ferrin Colos created by Michael Jan Friedman and Larry Stroman. - He wore an experimental "exo-mantle" from an alternate universe keyed to his cybernetic implants and attuned to his biological signature. It was powered by a "Black Hole". How this Darkstar fell to an energy parasite like the "Starbreaker" is beyond me. The Darkstars were an alternative to the Green Lantern Corps, The LEGION, and like groups.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkstars
http://www.mykey3000.com/cosmicteams/cosmic/index.html

2. Starman V - Will Payton created by Roger Stern and Tom Lyle. A 1980s DC Comics superhero, created by Roger Stern and Tom Lyle. Payton was struck by a bolt of energy from space which transformed him into a human shaped fusion reactor, and was empowered to fly, was superhumanly strong, could fire bolts of energy, and could change his appearance. He first appeared in Starman vol 1, #1 (1988), and seemingly died fighting the supervillain Eclipso. The 1990s Starman series (q.v.) revealed that his fate was different from previously believed.
http://www.dcuguide.com/who.php?name=starman5
http://www.mykey3000.com/cosmicteams...es/starmen.htm

3. Checkmate, created by Paul Kupperberg and Steve Erwin.
http://galileo.spaceports.com/~xsufi...ank/Checkmate/
http://www.mykey3000.com/cosmicteams/

4. Thunderbolts created by Kurt Busiek
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolts_%28comics%29
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Portal/5275/mini.html

5. The Warlord created by Mike Grell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlord_%28comics%29
http://www.colinonline.com/images/wa...dshot-h550.jpg


Cheers

QM

[RPMiller]

Justice Machine
Iron Man
Avengers
Alpha Flight
West Coast Avengers
Project Moritorium (I think that was the name)

[RPMiller]

Oh hey, I forgot the New Universe entirely. I was a huge Psi-Force fan once things got shifted around a bit and Boyd got featured more prominently. I keep meaning to write him up.

ME TOO!! I totally forgot the New Universe. Those came out shortly after I finished reading the Wild Card series IIRC. I saw them as being in the same vein as the series. Collected them all for a while.

[RPMiller]

In no particular order:

• Sandman (Dream, of the Endless)

My wife bought the graphic novel series. They were a great read. And yes, she bought them for herself.