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Your Favorite Limited Series?
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A few off the top of my head:

 

JSA Strange Adventures. I have a real fondness for this one. Whenever I have to stay in hospital, I always take the tpb with me. 

JSA All-Stars. 

JSA Returns. Honestly, there's probably notbing that great about this one. It's just nice to have a fairly modern story starring the Golden Age greats, done in that style, by modern talent. 

DC Universe Legacies. A fun recounting of DC's entire history. 

New Frontier. 

Transformers Vs GIJOE (IDW, Scioli). 

Transformers: The War Within. 

Transformers: Last Stand Of The Wreckers. 

Hotwire: Requiem For The Dead. 

Iron Man: Hypervelocity. It's fun, with some great art. Not for everyone.

Spider-Man/X-Men and Spider-Man/ Fantastic Four, by Christos Gage and Mario Alberti. Both miniseries' spend an issue each in various eras of their respective franchises, with an over-arching plot providing some connective tissue. Both are a lot of fun. 

 

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3 hours ago, Mecha_Fantastic said:

Transformers Vs GIJOE (IDW, Scioli). 

Transformers: The War Within. 

Transformers: Last Stand Of The Wreckers.

Last Stand of the Wreckers was hands-down my favorite TF story that I've read.  I enjoyed the War Within too.  Dreamwave had some solid output before Pat Lee ran it right into the ground.  

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I gotta get into some Transformers comics. Transformers were one of my biggest things as a kid. Even in high school, I bought some of the newer toys, because I loved them as a kid and it amazed me how much they advanced in toy production after all those years. I still have those toys in an ottoman. I always wanted to get that giant Unicron toy...

One of my best friends has a Decepticon tattoo, and his wife has an Autobot tattoo.

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A few to come to mind are Daytripper, I Kill Giants, All Star Superman and Black Hole. One piece has cover stories that become their own stories and of those I REALLY dig Enel's Great Space Operations, I think my favorite is probably Solanin though.

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5 minutes ago, JayT said:

A few to come to mind are Daytripper, I Kill Giants, All Star Superman and Black Hole. One piece has cover stories that become their own stories and of those I REALLY dig Enel's Great Space Operations, I think my favorite is probably Solanin though.

I still have yet to read my book of that series. I'll have to take it on the 4-day wedding party vacation next month.

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I enjoyed Zeck's Punisher story/series that went 4 but really 5 issues. I think it holds on as the best Punisher story in terms of writing and artwork. 

Marvel Secret Wars...the first go at it. I liked the premise, the toy tie-in. Just an all out battle royale, crazy scenario that was exactly what comics should be....fun!

Combat Kelly. Not so much a limited series as a series that did not last very long (ran from June '72 to October '73). Believe it was 9 issues, had a definite ending and the art and storytelling were as good as any war book from the time IMO.

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I’ve been thinking about it for days and still can’t come up with a favorite. I think often times limited series are able to up the ante a little in production value and maybe go places an ongoing couldn’t go, especially when it comes to continuity and shared universes. 

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17 minutes ago, JWKyle said:

I could go with the Wolverine mini the Hawkeye mini , Punisher mini but when I read this i really really like it.  

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One that's quite polarising.  I liked it.

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15 hours ago, Brian48 said:

Easily.

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I always thought the naming convention was a bit strange on this series.  Each one has a unique title and only the first is called "The Dark Knight Returns".  The others are:

#2 - Dark Knight Triumphant

#3 - Hunt the Dark Knight

#4 - The Dark Knight Falls

Yet CGC and just about everyone else calls them "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #2, #3, #4". 

It seems to make more sense to call them "Batman: The Dark Knight #1, #2, #3, #4". 

 

Just a random thought.  Carry on.

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1 hour ago, Turtle said:

I always thought the naming convention was a bit strange on this series.  Each one has a unique title and only the first is called "The Dark Knight Returns".  The others are:

#2 - Dark Knight Triumphant

#3 - Hunt the Dark Knight

#4 - The Dark Knight Falls

Yet CGC and just about everyone else calls them "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #2, #3, #4". 

It seems to make more sense to call them "Batman: The Dark Knight #1, #2, #3, #4". 

 

Just a random thought.  Carry on.

I think that DC Comics is the one that created the series naming convention.

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20 hours ago, TwoPiece said:

I still have yet to read my book of that series. I'll have to take it on the 4-day wedding party vacation next month.

I wouldn't call myself a fan of the character and from that perspective it feels likes this series is the statement needed for a character that's been around 80 years and moreover the only one I probably need until a couple more decades pass and somebody has another worthwhile take. Grant and Frank are fantastic and I just tend to appreciate the hell out of instance when all time unique creators are able to put their stamp on a classic. Characters like that merit having some space on a modern top shelf and it isn't altogether promised.

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6 hours ago, Turtle said:

It seems to make more sense to call them "Batman: The Dark Knight #1, #2, #3, #4". 

The series is officially titled "Batman: The Dark Knight."

However, the collected editions are titled "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns."

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I mostly only do marvel and dc, very limited on Indy stuff. 

If I had to pick the best from each I would pick Watchmen from DC (with dark knight returns the runner up).   For Marvel I would go with the Infinity Gauntlet 1-6 which I bought off the spinner rack in the early 90s when comics were still sold that way.  Secret Wars from a few years prior is also a good choice. 

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