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Come on, science guy, you gotta start with New World Order, it sets the whole thing up, and introduces super badass Batman for the first time in a totally super badass way.
“I know your secret!”
If you really want to go with “classics”, I recommend getting some of the reprints of Golden Age and Silver Age stuff. The DC Archive books are expensive, but worth the value if you like the old stuff. Also, The Spirit Archives are approaching completion, and they are all really good early Eisner. Really, really good. You should buy them.
The Marvel Essential Archives aren’t nearly as a good a quality, but the quantity totally makes up for it. When you get 20 to 25 issues for 20 bucks a pop, it’s hard to argue much. I especially recommend Essential Amazing Spider-Man 1-6, as those have pretty much the best Spider-Man stories of all time. But I’m biased towards Spidey, and whoever your favorite character is will probably have an essential book out for them.
Other classic stuff… The first book in the Complete Dick Tracy came out recently, and it’s good fun, in a very 1932 kind of way. I’m currently reading through it and it holds up fairly well, 70 years later. Less classic but still very, very good, is Alan Moore’s uncompleted run on Supreme, which I recommend to anyone who likes superheroes, even if he never finished it. And speaking of Alan Moore, nothing is better than From Hell. There, I said it. Best comic book ever. |
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