Which is, of course, why it's such a glaring omission.

Because Marvel actually has good recent series, or because the writer doesn't know all that much about Marvel?

YES! Simonson's Thor still stands up as one of the greatest comic runs of all time. Brilliance.

Hah, entirely fair! I love all the Big Four Daredevil runs equally, and I appreciate their dialogue with each other.

Not de-aged, castrated as a character. It doesn't make sense for Babs to be running around as Batgirl.

He said "for newbies."

Yup, especially since it actually makes sense for Stephanie Brown the character to be dealing with these situations, while Babs outgrew it years ago.

BQM's is a better Babs book than Batgirl of Burnside, too.

I don't mind Johns' reuse of stuff. I just don't find his storytelling all that inspired, or his prose and dialogue all that impressive.

And he's also absorbed and re-processed all of the Batman plot points from the last 7 years!

Year One is the only Batman gateway necessary.

Nah. It's an awesome story in and of itself.

Kingdom Come is A) An amazing exploration of why Superman matters and B) Totally accessible to any comic fan even basically familiar with the DC universe.

But they have two Fraction books instead of including a Brubaker/Phillips joint!

There's no excuse for the absence of Criminal and Swamp Thing.

Serialized graphic literature.

Of course, the answer for Batman is "Year One" and for Spider-Man is "Ultimate Spider-Man."

They're so different, in both aims and tone, that I feel it's silly to compare the two.

Yeah, I didn't love the Dark Phoenix saga, but I just read a collection of Claremont's work that started with Giant-Sized X-Men and I absolutely loved it.

He would mention it if he had, haha.