First! Comics Poll

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.

Moore's run on Swamp Thing...? Kirby/Lee runs on FF and Thor obviously

I would say Simonson's Thor too.

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 years
Bendis & Brubaker on Daredevil
Lee-Kirby Thor?

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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.

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.

def Cerebus

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.

Usagi Yojimbo would be on my list.

Usagi -- I've never read it, but I've only read good things about it.

Garth Ennis's run on the Punisher.

Invisibles is pretty great all the way through, excepting those early issues with the terrible Yeowell art I guess

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.

was thinking of mentioning that myself

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.

Yeah, I was going to mention Fourth World as an umbrella title but I got distracted by the shiny internet.

Problem is didn't Mister Miracle continue on after the main saga was done and get kind of meh?

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

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

little lulu

Tintin, Blueberry

so... Badger is basically David Lee Roth, right?