Nexus definitely sustains its quality longer ... but then there are days I think this is possibly the best single page of comics ever drawn
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pv9JmuoNuVE/TQwPZYJ_6ZI/AAAAAAAARig/w4hpQ-VXoZs/s1600/americanFlagg1.jpg
― Dunn O)))))))) (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 July 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
It sparks a good question though: what comic running more than say, 36 issues, was consistently good to great?
First one that springs to mind is Love and Rockets.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 27 July 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
Moore's run on Swamp Thing...? Kirby/Lee runs on FF and Thor obviously
― Dunn O)))))))) (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 July 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
I would say Simonson's Thor too.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 27 July 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
Don't know about beginning-to-end great, but there have been runs of good-to-greatness that long in ongoing titles.
Fantastic Four, mid-20s to mid-60s or so. The full 102-issue Lee-Kirby run, not so much.Cerebus, for many many yearsBendis & Brubaker on DaredevilLee-Kirby Thor?
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― Neil Jung (WmC), Friday, 27 July 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
I guess the full Lee-Kirby FF counts as good, though the highest highs in the 30s-50s make the last couple of years look worse than they actually are by comparison.
― Neil Jung (WmC), Friday, 27 July 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
But there aren't as many as you might think. Ditko and Lee for Spider-Man and, if you don't worry about page count, Dr. Strange.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 27 July 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
def Cerebus
― Dunn O)))))))) (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 July 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
Cerebus would fail the Flagg test if I had to judge it as a whole, but I totally agree it had as long a solid run as I've ever seen.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 27 July 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
Usagi Yojimbo would be on my list.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 27 July 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
Usagi -- I've never read it, but I've only read good things about it.
Garth Ennis's run on the Punisher.
― Neil Jung (WmC), Friday, 27 July 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
Invisibles is pretty great all the way through, excepting those early issues with the terrible Yeowell art I guess
― Dunn O)))))))) (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 July 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
At the time they were coming out I felt p dismissive of certain issues (mostly b/c they felt too au courant to me at the time), but in hindsight I think the whole run of Hate is awesome.
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 27 July 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
was thinking of mentioning that myself
― Dunn O)))))))) (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 July 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
Does Kirby's Fourth World count? Multiple concurrent titles instead of one long running title.
I love Kamandi but it wasn't the most consistent thing.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I was going to mention Fourth World as an umbrella title but I got distracted by the shiny internet.
― Your sweet bippy is going to hell (WmC), Friday, 27 July 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
Problem is didn't Mister Miracle continue on after the main saga was done and get kind of meh?
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 27 July 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
Also I haven't had a chance to read them in forever(are they in print as a collection these days?) but I seem to recall Messner-Loebs' Journey being great all the way through
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 27 July 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
Mister Miracle does pretty much just peter out sadly at the end (altho the final wedding issue is fun) - that might have been after the 36-issue mark had been passed tho, I'm not sure
― Dunn O)))))))) (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 July 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
little lulu
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 27 July 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
Tintin, Blueberry
― Your sweet bippy is going to hell (WmC), Friday, 27 July 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
so... Badger is basically David Lee Roth, right?
― Οὖτις, Monday, 26 October 2015 22:44 (eight years ago) link