"He gives her a liquified form of his DNA for her birthday" I bet he does

For those that don't want the spoilers. Variant's Top 10: 1. Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely 2. Batman The killing joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland 3. The Punisher by Garth Ennis 4. Marvels by Kurt Busiek 5. Flash Rebirth by Geoff Johns 6. Watchman by Alan Moore 7. The Amazing Spiderman Kraven's Last Hunt by Dematteis 8. Daredevil The Man without fear by Frank Miller 9. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore 10. Batman The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller

0:46 All Star Superman- Grant Morrisson 2:02 Batman Killing Joke Alan Moore 3:31 Punisher Max Garth Ennis 4:19 The Marvels Kurt Busiek 5:23 The Flash Reboth Geoff Johns Ethan Van Sciver 6:36 Watchmen 7:42 The Amazing Spiderman Kraven’s Last Hunt 8:39 Daredevil Man Without Fear 9:36 V for Vendetta 10:40 The Dark Knight Returns Frank Miller

I dont mean to be an ass, but whats the point of reading these comics if you are going to spoil them?

c'mon, where is Kingdome Come? That is an AMAZING story, plus glorious art by Alex Ross.

FLASH POINT!!!

I just love this guy's oratory skills. He reads off of a script but makes it sound so smooth

Wut, no Kingdom Come?

Sandman is one of modern literatures greatest treasures and is a bona fide under appreciated work of uniquely inspired writing. Perhaps the greatest peice of intelligently researched and comprehensively formulated peice of creative writing to ever hit graphic novels. It's an absolutely unmissable series. Each to their own. 👍

I feel like you spoiled a lot of details from these books.

CHEERS FOR INCLUDING PUNISHER MAX!!! never thought i'd ever see it mentioned in a top 10 comics list. never ever. everyone always goes for the basics (if incredible). Glad to see some love for it. Liking your video.

Jeez!!! This was some list. Several not-so-well-known comics, and all amazing. I'm sad I've already read them all, because it's obvious you do know a lot about comics and recommendations from you are worth checking out. Still, massive like to your video. Cheers.

Kingdom Come!?!?

I haven’t commented before, but I have to say this: This channel is freaking phenomenal. Not just saying this to kiss up or anything. Variant has quite literally made me the comic fan I am today. You guys have expanded my comic book knowledge beyond what I thought it would ever would be. History Of episodes and Top 10 lists have made the incredibly complex world of comics approachable and quite appealing. Variant, keep up the Lord’s work. Videos like this one make me excited for a new episode from this channel every week.

My 10 (in this specific order) 1. The killing joke 2. Watchmen 3. Hush 4. The sandman 5. Lucifer 6. All star superman 7. The dark knight returns 8. V for vendetta 9. Promethea 10. Watchmen again. I think this order takes you on a journey through philosophy in comics. It is in this specific order to expose certain elements of the comics. For example I would read watchmen right after the killing joke to experience the nihilistic and existential themes throughout the two books. I think this first read through makes you focus more on Oz and Rorschach and their opposing philosophies. On the second reading after reading a bit about hermeticism in Promethea, understand the emotional vastness of powerful characters like superman, and understanding the relationship between creator and created in lucifer you can better understand Dr. Manhattan. I think watchmen allows you to take many different perspectives on the story and find something new in it each time.

Such a great list and THANK YOU so much for adding the Garth Ennis Max Punisher run. I felt it was so under appreciated. I would have added another from Garth’s The Preacher series and Batman Year One.

Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run was outstanding. I would put that ahead of V for Vendetta, but to each his own.

Thank god many of us like Kingdom Come! Its my fav comicbook arc of all time. I would have to say this list could be different for so many people. Great video though 👍🏻

I think I would've included Kingdom Come

Great job bruh, I love this list. I have some suggests too for the next version.

My Top 5 List no particular order 1. Crisis on Infinite Earths 2. Batman Eternal 3. The Sandman 4. Watchmen 5. Future's End

I really love the twists and turns in comics...which is the reason why one should never miss an issue.

Great video keep up you are the best comic book channel on KZfaq in my option anyways keep up with the great content

Good video as always,. Love the T-shirt, where did u get it

I would include the Secret Wars from the 80's, Marvel's Contest of Champions, the Punisher limited series (art by Mike Zeck), Wolverine limited series (art by Frank Miller), Death the 2 issue series by Neil Gaiman, the Tick (the original series), and the Crow (the original limited series)

I love the watchmen especially rorschach he is one of my favorite anti hero

Recently went through an older collection at work (a comic shop) and found the entirety of Marvels as well as the Daredevil story mentioned on this list! Definitely need to read through them ASAP!

Great video! you should make another 10 comics to read before death sometime

-Watchmen movie mentioned "which i loved" -V for Vendetta movie mentioned "which i loved" -Batman v Superman mentioned "....." LoL

Actually if you think about it Kravens Last Hunt is about Spider-Man by being about Kraven. By showing how Kraven acts in the costume and how brutal he is it shows a lot about Peters personality.

I have to go to the 60's, because that's where I started. Some of the Justice League issues were good silly fun. Then I jump to the 70's and Neal Adams run on Green Lantern/Green Arrow. For the 80's I pick Alan Moore, John Totlbene and Steve Bissette on Swampy. They gave us Constantine, after all. There is one issue I keep next to my recliner at all times. Hellblazer #49 from January 1992. Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. One read and you'll understand.:)

I would have included the four-part Marvel vs DC from the mid 90's (minus the Amalgam universe outcome). A story that combined all the DC and Marvel characters into one universe is a comic book reader's dream. The only complaint is that it should have had a longer run and went much more in depth with other characters instead of just the major ones.

The art in Marvels is so good. It blew me away as a teen when it came out.

Good video to release now who wants a Top 10 Comic Book title series video.

Good stuff. I really enjoyed this.

V for Vendetta, Batman The killing joke, watchmen are my favorites. Great list dude.

Hope you guys will do one of top 10 modern classic comics!!

If this was a top 15 I’d recommend including Flashpoint, The Man Of Steel by John Byrne, the death of Superman, Kingdom Come , and one non-cape graphic novel, Maus. Seriously I don’t know why people don’t still talk about Maus, it’s incredible. My personal top 10 is 10. Flashpoint 9. Kingdom Come 8. Watchmen 7. The Marvels 6. Death of superman+ funeral for a friend+ reign of the supermen 5. Maus 4. The original Lee/Ditko Spider-Man issues+ AF15 3. Batman Year One 2. The Dark Knight Returns 1. All Star Superman, which is, in my opinion, the greatest thing ever written.

Seemed like you were mainly keeping the list to super hero characters, but Maus is also a must read

Just an aside, if you love Captain America, check out John Byrne and Roger Stern's run in the 1980s. You don't need to know too much contextually as it pretty much set a new status quo for Steve Rogers and Cap. It's a spectacular, fun, surprisingly deep set of stories and is considered the peak of the old Captain America comics outside of his more well known series. It's a personal favourite of mine, and it ended far too soon, only being around 9 or 10 issues long. Oh yeah, it also contains the best and most succinct retelling of Cap's origin story ever told.

"Welcome back Frank" is definitely my favourite comic book story

I like your list. Apart from the comics in your list, I also like Green Lantern Blackest Night, Green Lantern Brightest Day, Justice League Forever Evil, DC Metal, Batman White Knight, Spiderman Spiderverse, Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe, Spiderman/Deadpool

Quite an interesting list, I actually agree with most of it. I guess I should start working on my own.

Are you going to cover more Valiant comics stuff in the future since there will be a Bloodshot movie prob next year?

Knight fall is a pretty great comic

LOVING THE BANE T SHIRT!!

I loved The Man Without Fear too! I have all the issues, I'm still waiting to get it signed by Frank himself...it was also the first set of comics I ever received!

Honourable mentions: Kingdom Come, Sandman, Lucifer (Mike Carey), Maus, Year One, Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, The Long Halloween, God Loves Man Kills, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Gauntlet, Extremis, Y The Last Man, DC The New Frontier, Civil War, Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol, JLA Tower of Babel, Blackest Night. Definitely forgot a few though. I respect your opinion regarding Sandman, but I thought it to be a masterpiece. As well as Lucifer.

Don't care if you're Marvel or DC fan. If you like comics, or good books....do yourself a favor and read Hickman's run on Fantastic Four.

In terms of Alan Moore, I feel like From Hell could've also been on this list

This was amazing but you should also do best events in comics

I agree with the list for the most part. I'd add J. Michael Straczynski's "Rising Stars" and Christopher Priest run on Black Panther (with Matt Fracton's Immortal Weapons run in and out of Iron Fist as honorable mention)

Do a video comparing the speed of Barry Allen to Tim Allen from Home Improvement

Kingdom Come?

You really should have done a list of 20 instead of 10.... while this list is pretty spot on, I can’t even try to say that it’s not, there are still some you should have added in because they are also essentials. Some of those being death of Superman, civil war, infinity, one of the wolverine stories, from hell, plus you also gotta put in a spawn story for sure, lethal protector would also be a great one to put on the list(or just about anything about venom), and you can’t forget DP and even tho it’s newer the most recent carnage mini series is a must read for any comic/spidey fan. And I can easily list another 10-20 that ought to be on a must read list, because as you said there are so many fantastic comics out there, X-men fantastic 4, justice league, so on and so forth.... but a list of 50 is just too much. At the same time, 10 is too few..... 25 would be best I think. That way you could really get a good list made up of a great variety without leaving out very many essential must reads. Maybe do an updated video of a list of 25 in the near future....? Maybe???

Great video! I would add Kingdom Come and Hush in my List

"And, let's be honest! Anything that Alex Ross draws is a visual masterpiece!" Amen Amen Amen.

While I like the Watchmen comic, I would never recommend it to a first timer.

1. Watchmen 2. Dark Knight Returns 3. Lee/Kirby FF 4.Claremont X-Men from Giant Size X-Men to Outback 5. Peter David's Incredible Hulk 6.Robinson's Starman 7.Usagi Yojimbo 8. Ostrander Suicide Squad 9. Delano and Ennis Hellblazer 10. Sandman I guess The above aren't really in any order. It's brutal to make a top ten list because you have to leave stuff out that is just as valid of an option: Batman Year One, Kirby's Fourth World, Lee/Ditko Spider-man, Love and Rockets, Moore's Swamp Thing, Miller Daredevil, Waid's Flash, Astro City. There is so much great stuff out there.

I always come back to this list to see where I should start reading comics, I think ill start with batman year one, then the long Halloween followed by the killing joke and 3 jokers

No Kingdom Come?

Doomsday Clock will definitely be on this list once it ends!

Great Kevin Smith shout out. Could you do his runs on batman?

So funny to have so many Alan Moore comics and then say you loved the movie adaptations. Like being a fan of both Lincoln and Wilkes Booth

Top 10 Animated comic book movies?

Great video

I like the way this list was formatted. Now you can make another titled “10 More Comics You Need to Read Before You Die”

So is there an actual list without so much detail? I only heard the first one, but I don’t want spoilers lol. But I really want to know what you recommend, you seem to have a great taste in comics!

Kingdom Come should of made a honorable mention at the very least

Do top ten vertigo books.

Thanks for the list, Arris.

Nice video variant comics :]

My top 10 1. Silver surfer Requiem 2.Watchmen 3. Batman Dark knight returns 4. Batman Hush 5. Infinity Gauntlet 6. V for Vendetta 7.Batman Year One 8.300 9. Death of Superman 10. Batman the killing joke

I always thought Alan Moore's swamp thing was amazing

Well stories that would fit on this list would be Kingdom Come,Batman:Year One,Superman Birthright,The Death Of Superman,Sinestro Corps War,the New 52 Justice League Origin story,along with Death Of Spider-Man and Secret Wars followed by the original Infinity Gauntlet story and of course the 201 issue run of Wally West's Flash.Also if you're a dedicated fan check out the 5 Crisis events from DC and if you've already read those,check out Convergence.

Including comics and Graphic Novels, my list goes something like this: -Scott Pilgrim -Blankets -Giant Days -The Walking Dead -Saga -Ms Marvel -Watchmen -Vision (Tom King run) -Hellboy -Lost at Sea

House of M or Age of Apocalypse would be on my list

No "The Death of Superman?"

You should have put the list in the description for those who don't want all the spoilers. I am working on putting together my all-star superman set. I've only seen the animated version so far, but it seemed disjointed as it was trying to put in a lot of content without giving it the time, it misses a lot too.

Not criticizing this list (it's pretty good) but I would add: Kingdom Come, Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run (imo his best work alongside Watchmen), Crisis on Infinite Earths (if you love DC Comics as a whole) and Batman: Year One.

For me: The Death of The Stacys Kraven's Last Hunt Old Man Logan Watchmen Green Lantern/Green Arrow's 70's run Punisher: Born Punisher: Welcome Back Frank Preacher Whatever Happened to The Man of Tomorrow The Killing Joke

Marvel but no Kingdom Come?! :O

Can you make a top 10 must read comics made after 2000 ?

A thought question: Have you considered a series called Another Look at some of the stories you've done?

No love for The Boys by Garth Ennis huh?

I see a lot of very good recommendations, so I'm just inserting some that I didn't see in the comments(or I just missed them): Saga of the Swamp Thing 100 Bullets Fables(you may die without reading this one, but still it's very enjoyable)

You should have placed in the list: Raven Banner - A Tale of Asgard. Please make an Episode about it. It does gives a great insight about asgardian lore and about duty and honor

1- Wanted by Mark Millar 2- Old Man Logan by Frank Miller 3- Jupiter's Legacy by Mark Millar 4- Nemesis by Mark Millar 5- The Dark Knight 3: The Master Race by Frank Miller 6- Metal: Dark Nights by Scott Synder 7- Death of the Family by Scott Synder 8- Endgame by Scott Synder 9- Wonder Woman Earth 1 by Grant Morrison 10- Batman Inc. by Grant Morrison H.M.- Superior by Mark Millar, Joker by Brain something (my bad can't think of last name😶), Green Latern Darkest Night by Johns, TDW run with TMNT

comics are everything

I haven't watched the entire video yet, but Knightfall is one of my top 10, thats all, just sharing

How about the top 10 stories from each age? Modern, copper, bronze, etc. So many great stories!

Wow Arris, I haven't seen your show in a whiiiile! You grew... been hitting those Bane deadlifts? But seriously, you should. I digress... where DID you get that shirt?

My ten (not in any certain order): 1. The Death of Superman 2. KnightFall; Part 1-3 3. The Dark Knight Returns 4. Batman The Killing Joke 5. Kingdom Come 6. Flashpoint 7. Flash Rebirth 8. Civil War 9. Batman Hush 10. Batman Year One

I don't agree with 1 and 5. I would replace them with superman for all seasons and kingdom come

Comics I have read which I would place on this list include, Wolverine Origin 6 issue mini-series, Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe, and The Crow trade paperback.

Could you do 'Top 10 best Indie titles to read'?

neil gaiman's sandman is a priceless treasure . I cannot even express in words how amazing it is. Just too beautiful.

Top 10 Comics you need to read before you die: Variant: Here is a bunch of spoilers for these comics we are recommending to read!

Others I'd recommend are Spiderman Maximun Carnage, Teen Titans Judas Contract, Blackest Night, Planet Hulk, World War Hulks, and Spiderman Blues.

Hush,Crisis on infinite Earths,Civil War,Infinity Gauntlet,Dark Phoenix Saga,Doom Patrol (Grant Morison run),ANAD Moon Knight by Jeff Lemire, Old man Logan,Death in the Family,Under the Red Hood, and that's just to start.