4. Top 10 Comics and Comic Book Story lines (part 1)

Warning Comic Book Spoilers Ahead!!!

In this weeks episode, we dive into our top 10 comics and comic book storylines. We go into many of the details of our favorite books, so if you haven’t read these books and don’t want anything spoiled for you, please read through the notes and skip ahead.

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:30 James introduces the topic of our top 10 comic books or comic book story lines.

1:35 James, whose list is in no particular order, starts off with his first book/ series which is Thor vol 2 written by J Michael Straczynski with artwork by Olivier Coipel.

4:50 Joe starts off with number 10 on his list, which is a golden/silver age comic Superman 248 vol. 1. “The Man Who Murdered Earth” written by Lein Wein with artwork by Curt Swan.

8:06 Chris gives us his number 10 pick, Green Arrow: Quiver written by Kevin Smith with artwork by Phil Hester.

13:45 James gives his next pick, Dare Devil: Guardian Devil written by Kevin Smith with artwork by Joe Quesda.

19:38 Joe’s number 9 pick is Batman 251: The Joker’s 5 Way Revenge written Denny O’neil with artwork by Neal Adams.

25:08 Chris’ number 9 pick is Sandman vol.3 Dream Country written by Neil Gaiman with artwork by many talent artists that would be too long to name here.

31:01 James gives his next pick, X-Men: “The Age of Apocalypse” the entire four volume run written and drawn by too many talent artists to list here.

36:00 Joe’s number 8 picks is Adventure Comics 369 “Mordu the Merciless” and 370 “The Devil’s Jury” written by Jim Shooter with artwork by Jim Shooter and Curt Swan.

41:55 Chris gives us his number 8 titles V for Vendetta written by Alan Moore with artwork by David Lloyd and Tony Weare.

44:10 James gives his next pick, Swamp Thing Annual #2 written by Alan Moore with artwork by Steve Bissette.

47:00 Joe’s number seven pick and what he considers the greatest cover of all time, Amazing Spider-Man 39 written by Stan Lee with artwork by John Romita.

50:50 Chris gives his number seven pick, Marvel’s “Civil War” written by Mark Millar with artwork by Steve McNiven.

58:00 James gives his number 6, JLA “Tower of Babble” written by Mark Waid with artwork by Howard Porter and Steve Scott.

01:05:35 Joe gives his number 6, Fantastic Four 48, 49, and 50 “The Coming of Galactus” written by Stan Lee with artwork by Jack Kirby.

01:12:56 Chris gives us his number 6, Amazing Spider-man written by JMS Vol. 1: “Coming Home” with artwork by John Romita jr.

01:21:07 James gives his number 5 Amazing Spider-man written by JMS issue 37 “The Confrontation” with artwork by John Romita jr.

1:27:50 Joe’s gives his number five pick “The Man of Steel” story and artwork by John Byrnes.

1:32:22 Chris gives his number five pick, “March” by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell.