Inspired by this post, especially Chris Durnell's comment in it: what are the comics recently published or being published now that are going to be classics? What will you re-read in five, ten, fifteen years? Books like Tom Strong or are you more invested in Y, the Last Man? Are you going to be demanding a hardback reprint of Michael Turner's work? What's good enough to get one of the Masterwork/Classics reprint treatment?
For myself, if you're asking me to name the books I think should get this treatment, I'll admit that I'm a sucker for Morrison's work on The Invisibles and JLA and think there should be a hardback library of Moore's work. For starters. I think Cerebus will be read for quite a while, even if I'm not a huge fan, and I think Simonson's Thor and Fantastic Four were extraordinary and deserve a lot more praise than they get, and Ostrander's Spectre should be collected. I'm also interested to see if Strangers in Paradise or David Lapham's Stray Bullets are still being read a decade or two from now, because both of them intrigued me. There are a lot more, of course, but I'll let you cover that in comments.
Your turn: what are the deserved masterworks of the past two decades in comics?
Update: Greg makes a good point in the comments, asking if I mean aside from obvious ones like Watchmen, so I figured I'd answer it here: no, not aside from that. Please feel free to mention what seem to be obvious choices and to discuss why they're obvious, whatever suits your fancy.
Posted by Matt Rossi at October 28, 2004 6:58 AM