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For myself I pull the following:
2. Detective Comics
10. Batman & Robin
14. Irredeemable
16. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century
38. Mr. Stuffins
62. Beasts of Burden
66. Power Girl
69. Strange Tales
71. The Brave & The Bold
A couple I keep an eye on:
Incredibles (not available outside the US, thanks BOOM Studios)
Fables
I did collect Doom Patrol but it hit the drop pile just before Blackest Night, I was not enjoying Giffen's take.
Wednesday Comics, I may get in trade, I liked some of the stories.
"When they come to take control every Ogre must play his role"
Instead of just listing what I currently pull, I will list all the ones I bought and read, indicating which ones I am still pulling.
1-25
In the top 25, I bought:
1. Detective Comics (pull list)
2. Parker: The Hunter
3. Scalped (pull list)
4. Batman & Robin (pull list)
5. Wednesday Comics
6. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century
7. Ex Machina (pull list)
8. Blackest Night (pull list)
9. Seaguy: Slaves of Mickey Eye
I put "(pull list)" by those I am still having pulled. The others are completed. I used to collect Fables and will probably be returning to it soon. I am probably going to be dropping Blackest Night, though.
26-50
10. The Muppet Show
11. BPRD: 1947 (All BPRD series are on my pull list)
12. Invincible Iron Man (pull list)
13. Incognito
14. Sweet Tooth (bought a couple of issues)
15. Fantastic Four (post-Millar)
16. Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror #15
17. The Punisher (bought a couple of issues)
18. Doom Patrol (pull list)
19. Gotham City Sirens (bought a couple of issues)
While I bought all issues of Incognito, by the end I didn't really like it that much.
51-75
20. Agents of Atlas (pull list - pulling all minis)
21. Lone Ranger
22. Incredible Hercules (pull list)
23. Captain America
24. Final Crisis
25. Stuff of Legend (pull list)
26. Power Girl (pull list)
27. Mysterious the Unfathomable
28. Strange Tales
29. The Brave & the Bold (only missed one issue so far)
30. Batman: Streets of Gotham
76-100
31. Final Crisis: Superman Beyond
32. Mighty Avengers (pull list)
33. Immortal Weapons
34. Dark Reign: Zodiac
It looks like I read almost exactly a third of the CBR list. There are a lot of other gems I would like to read that I haven't, though - Madame Xanadu, Scott Pilgrim, I Kill Giants, and Asterios Polyp especially.
...now, if we can just get Professor Pyg confirmed.
93) Secret Warriors 89) Mighty Avengers 81) Ultimate Comics Spider-Man 61) Final Crisis 60) Captain America 52!) Agents of Atlas 41) I Kill Giants 37) Dark Avengers 21) Blackest Night 14) Irredeemable 10) Batman and Robin 2) Detective Comics
Secret Warriors
X-Force (But only during the Messiah War Crossover)
SWORD
Ultimate Spider-Man
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Captain America
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The Incredibles (I bought 1 issue of the initial series, then finished it in TBP form)
Iron Man
I also bought a single issue of Hercules last week when I was getting back issues at 50% off, but I don't think it's enough to count. Even if I did, that's still less than a 10th of the issues they list. I can't say I'm entirely surprised, given I like to keep my pick list on the small side.
Well, lists like that are always arbitrary on some level anyway. I don't think it's really worth getting worked up about, and I say this as someone who'd put GotG as his favorite series right now.
Who knows how they picked the comics or if by the reasoning it didn't just get shut out. You could take the same list, give it to a dozen different people, and get a dozen different results (or more). The important thing is when the good books do get constant recognition and you can find a consensus of some kind among enough people who agree that yes, this is a good read.
And so long as books like Guardians is getting that kind of respect, I'm not going to fret over it being left off the list of a single site.
The first step was to find the world's most elitist fanboys to pick 'em -- which explains why I've never heard of 33%-50% of the books on that list.
Scanning through the list there are 40 I have never heard of. (10 from each of the quarters).
And I too am a little surprised that GotG didn't get a showing, but I think a majority of the selectors go along with JQ and dislike/don't understand/don't read "Space stories".
"When they come to take control every Ogre must play his role"