Top 10 Comic Books by Neil Gaiman

My personal Top 10 list of comic books by Neil Gaiman. Don't be upset, when your favourite isn't on my list.

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• Vertigo
• Marvel
• 1602
• Eternals
• Coraline
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• Sandman
• Dream
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• Batman
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• Lucifer
• Corinthian
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[Ifrid87]

The Doll's House is a masterpiece. Rose monologue is just ... wow. Still, if you ends up dividing "Sandman" in chapters, you should have found a place for "Brief Lives" too ... Destruction speech under the stars is simply epic ...

[DrGull1888]

@Ifrid87 Brief Lives is a good one. Actually I'm discontent with this top 10 list. When I've reached my 100th video I'll do a redux version of it and perhaps I include Brief Lives.

[johnnyscifi]

Whatever Happened to The Caped Crusader is also my favourite of his as well as His take on the Jack Kirby classic characters...Eternals!

[redrasegarden]

while it did get turnd into a graphic novlie it, coraline was a book furst. but enver the less it was good both ways

[BLACKMAGICMETALMAN12]

Marvel 1602 is really underrated, I find. I loved it.

[DrGull1888]

@cha5 I realy loved the two pages by Ross. But the book in general is comedy gold. I must do a World's Finest Top 10 list.

[cha5]

@DrGull1888 Oh yeah the Evan Dorkin/Dave Gibbons Worlds Finest with all those contributing artists is a classic, I loved the Batmite/Mxyzptlk feud at the beginning with the art done in a Curt Swain/Dick Sprang Silver Age style and everything all smiles and good cheer and Batman good naturedly trying to stop their fight and getting blasted and turned into a skeleton (shades of Final Crisis)

Batmite with a horrified look

"B-Batman? c-c'mon you-you can't be dead,"

Batman's skull crumples

[DrGull1888]

@cha5 Indeed, to each his own. The homages to the different eras is great. I once saw something similar in a World's Finest comic. Batmite and Mr Mxyzptlk quarreled which hero is the greatest and therefore sent Batman and Supes through all the eras of their existence.

Batman dying in battle and not retiring is indeed honourable but I prefer the idea of an old Batman returning to fight chaos again like in Dark Knight Returns or teaching a successor as in Batman Beyond.

[cha5]

@DrGull1888 To each their own,

Me I really loved the recollections of Batman's friends and foes at the funeral,

especially Alfred & Selina's, plus the artistic homages to different eras in Batman's history from the Golden Age to the Animated era and like Batman knowing that he's never going to live to retire and spend the rest of his days playing golf and at some point he will go down

it's just a question of when. Dematteis's "Going Sane" story was really memorable in it's own right though

[DrGull1888]

@cha5 Yeah, it had some nice ideas but it isn't that good. I didn't like the funeral idea with his friends and foes sharing merry anecdotes. Of course Batman's enemies lost with him their meaning of life but I'd have liked it more when they reacted more redeemed.

There was this Dematteis story "Going Sane" were Joker believed Batman to be dead and it was like a real salvation to him and he started a normal life. That was a pretty good death of Batman story.