Comics

1. Batman: Year One
2. Scott Pilgrim
3. Preacher
4. Watchmen
5. Bone: Book 1
6. The Sandman
7. Blankets
8. Flash: Wally West #15-79, esp. The Return of Barry Allen (Waid)
9. Alias
10. Locke & Key
11. Kingdom Come
12. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
13. The Killing Joke
14. Death: The High Cost of Living
15. Invincible
16. Transmetropolitan
17. Box Office Poison
18. The Authority: Under New Management
19. Maus
20. Powers: Who Killed Retro Girl?
21. American Born Chinese
22. Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn I & II
23. The Golden Age
24. Astro City (First six-issue series)
25. Rising Stars
26. Batman: Venom
27. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Boy on Earth
28. Flash: Terminal Velocity
29. Murder Mysteries
30. Digger
31. Gunnerkrig Court
32. Supreme Power
33. Batman: No Man's Land
34. Batman: Holy Terror
35. Batman: Sword of Azrael
36. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
37. From Hell
38. Sleeper
39. A Stray in the Woods
40. A Contract with God
41. 100 Bullets (First Story Arc)
42. JLA: New World Order
43. Starman
44. Criminal: The Last of the Innocent
45. Cerebus
46. Boneyard
47. V For Vendetta
48. Daredevil: Out
49. Astonishing X-Men (Whedon)
50. Uncle Sam
51. The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish
52. Robin: A Hero Reborn
53. Safe Area: Gorazde
54. Fables Book 1
55. Fortune and Glory
56. Promethea Books 1 & 2
57. Ghost World
58. DC One Million
59. Zot!
60. Sojourn
61. The Sword
62. RASL

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