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Awesome. I am still struggling through the Bendis years, and it feels like I'm just doing it to do it instead of actual enjoyment of reading these. It doesn't help that there are endless crossovers with other titles/events.

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It looks like Spawn is up to 323, and Savage Dragon is at 260.

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Yeah, I gave up on Cerebus after Melmoth, it started getting tedious. The first 100 issues or so were pretty good, and the High Society story arc was fantastic. Too bad that Sim went nutty and ruined his series.

So other than the first half of Cerebus (150 issues) the longest for me would probably be Sandman (75 issues plus the few things that came out later), I'm re-reading it for the umpteenth time now, getting ready for the Netflix show. After that would probably be Preacher (66 issues plus various specials and spinoffs) and Transmetropolitan (60 issues).

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Probably Justice League of America for me. Starting with #1 and then reading all of its iterations through the early 2000s.

I plan to do this for the Legion of Super-heroes very soon. I have a stack of omnibuses waiting for the right moment.

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I had quite a few complete runs when I was collecting in the early 90’s. I had complete runs of Animal Man, The Demon, Hitman, GL Mosaic, and a lot others I can’t remember at the moment. Sold them all for practically nothing when I moved.

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I remember Cerberus feeling like such a long series, but at 150 issues it's barely longer than Invincible (144 issues which I also finished, if you include the side issues in the same universe like Wolfman it's more than 150). That seems crazy to me.

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I think the longest for me after The Walking Dead is Amazing Spider-Man. I read that from around #240 to into the 400's up to the point where they said Peter was the clone and Ben Reilly became Spider-Man. I haven't really got back to reading that title consistantly ever since.

My daughter just read through the first Invincibles omnibus or whatever they are calling it. I think that is between 55-60 issues. She got through it in less than a week and has ordered the other ones from the library, so that will probbly be her longest run. I can't get her into reading (or watching) The Walking Dead.

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Actually Cerebus was 300 issues, I only read the first 150 and then gave up.

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Bumping this for bragging rights! Today I picked up the new current issue of Action Comics #1069 which gives me a consecutive run of 900 issues!! :banana:

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It looks like Spawn is up to #356, Savage Dragon will release issue 272 next week.

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In recent years, probably the Lone Wolf and Cub manga series, which isn't very long by comic book standards.

Back in the '60s and '70s, however, it would have to be Fantastic Four and Spiderman. I started both at the same time in June 1965 and stopped sometime in college about ten years later.


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Fables, all in TPBs.

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One Piece is now on chapter 1127. Latest English volume is 108, which goes up to chapter 1100, but I read it weekly.

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I've read every issue of Legion of Super-Heroes from Adventure #247 to the first three years of the 5YL run. Other than the rare Silver Age stuff, I bought most of Adventure, Superboy, Superboy & The Legion of Super-Heroes, and then final the Legion series proper as single issues in the mid 80s when you could pretty much get most of them for a quarter a pop.

What I couldn't afford, I ended up buying as DC Archive hardcovers or the DC Digest small-books that were as big as your hand and pretty much wrecked my eyesight as I sit here 53 years old and squinting like a motherfucker. Imagine sacrificing your vision over "The Legend of Starfinger". My god...

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I once had a goal to read every issue of both Superman and Action Comics ever published. Be it as floppies, trades, digital, whatever. Maybe even Superboy, The Superman Family, Supergirl, the works. Wanted to even blog my way through it.

But as much as I love Superman (still my favorite superhero), especially the Curt Swan/Mort Weisenger Silver Age stuff, I don't think I could make it all the way through. Bronze Age Superman (pre-Byrne) was a tough slog.

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I've had an odd affection for the Legion since my childhood and have been working recently to fill the holes in my collection. I got everything after the 1989 series (which started w/ the 5YL run) cheap off of ebay. The silver-age Adventure comics I have in collections. So, I'm working on the comics I read as a kid starting with Superboy & the Legion of Super-Heroes (where I need 34 issues), the Legion series that resumed the numbering from the Superboy run (only need 1 issue left), the 1984 Baxter paper run (6 issues), and the 5YL series (23 issues).

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I haven't checked prices in a good long while, but man, these used to go so cheap. I hope that's still the case in your search :up:

Now the big question: are you also collecting the "Tales of the Legion of Super Heroes" newsprint floppies that reprinted the Baxter series after a year? What an odd publishing decision from DC...

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I mean they wanted something special for the direct market and it worked, the odd thing was that newsstand got a year's worth of extra stories that the direct market never did...

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I faithfully read LOSH from the Adventure days through the Great Darkness Saga then went to college and didn't read comics for 20 years. Then I discovered trades and the ease of reading collected editions. I was excited to find The Curse, but then I ran into all the reboots and got really confused. I did read several collections but wasn't feeling any continuity. Some stuff I just missed like Legionnaires, and I bought the second 5YL omnibus without having read the first one (I heard it's being reissued, though). I also bought a lot of digital floppies for stuff that wasn't collected until Comixology/Amazon killed the floppy market so I have no idea where I stand on those now.

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Almost every single "big" event messed up the Legion because of their position in the future.

Crisis messed up Superboy (and Supergirl). That prompted 5YL, but that's a kind of surprising and really deep look into Legion lore including a bunch of (kind of brilliant) retcons for stuff that had to be rewritten. Valor/Mon-el becomes the inspiration of the Legion and the guy who seeded most of the homeworlds of the Legion members, but it goes off the rails (in a great way) from there. You definitely need the first volume though. The Legionnaires are basically clones (or maybe the originals) of an older Legion, but it allowed them to kind of have a classic Legion at the same time. And they had L.E.G.I.O.N. as a "modern day" tie in. Some fantastic art as well with Giffen, Immonen, Sprouse, Hughes, Doran, Kitson, Pearson, etc.

Zero Hour basically rebooted the Legion entirely, like completely wiped away the old continuity and went with a new young Legion. Projectra is now a snake, for instance. You can basically read that standalone. It was a bit of a throwback to a brighter Legion, until Legion Lost completely changed that.

Waid and Kitson created yet another reboot, where the Legion were basically the kids rebelling against a repressive society. Eventually Jim Shooter took over, but Geoff Johns was already working on bringing back the "real" Legion so this was unceremoniously cancelled.

Then you have Johns taking over with an older Legion that was somehow pre 5YL, which I didn't like at all (plus he broke up Mon-el and Shady for reasons). Final Crisis had the various iterations of the Legion teaming together. Then New 52 happened and the Legion were like throwbacks to pre New 52 but lost in continuity or something, and I gave up, someone can take the reigns from there.

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5YL was fun for about the first year and change but went to total shit after that (Remember "Legion on the Run" or whatever with Brainy hiding from the authorities by wearing a fat suit? FFS) For me once Paul Levitz was done, I was (yes he came back 20+ years later but you get where I'm coming from).

The Legion best existed in this awesome little future 1000 years from now where the entire galaxy based their culture and aesthetic on Silver/Bronze age DC Comics, and that's where they should have stayed. The LSH doesn't need updating or "relatability"; they were at their best when they went big, fantasy, and totally comic-book silly and amazing. Levitz got it. Shooter got it too.

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Yeah, Levitz's original exit is probably as good an ending point as any for stopping the original Legion. The property just never recovered when DC axed Superboy out of continuity. I was hopeful Jon Kent could work as a suitable replacement but they gave Legion to Bendis, just about the last writer I would ever want near a continuity-heavy team.

I did enjoy the recent animated Legion film.

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Yeah, Legion on the run wasn't great, but that was still a solid run. Agree about the not needing relatability but I'll admit that making it a bit more gritty was appealing, after all it was stuff like the brutal attack by the LoSV on Karate Kid and the Great Darkness Saga that really got me into Legion (both LoSH and New Teen Titans at the time just turning otherwise bright superheroes into kind of dark stories in a good way)

I do think that the post Zero Hour Legion was a great starting on point for new, perhaps younger readers with nods to continuity but not getting too bogged down in it. Like the early Ultimate Universe.