you're going to want to make sure that you watch through this whole video because number
one is so severe that people are probably going to tell me to delete my channel
hey guys it's me marcus aka the mad dog and we're back with another video one thing that really
pisses me off is when i hear people saying that they feel like they can't be part of the comic
book community because they haven't read this book or because they haven't read that book
two things firstly the people who say that you can't be a true fan of comics until you've read
a certain book will always just keep moving the goal post back so just completely ignore
them and secondly i can guarantee that there are very few people who have read every single comic
that's ever been published so today in the hopes that this can help a couple of people feel like
they are a part of this community here are the top 20 classic comics that i've never read and
yeah again this is another top 10 video that's actually top 20. with this clickbait coming in
at number 20 i've got frank miller's 300. yeah i've seen the movie so i know the story of this
but i've never actually owned this book i would like to read this i think it'd be very interesting
and from the interior pages that i have seen this looks like a beautiful book and it seems like one
of the last books that frank miller did before you turned into well frank miller number 19 i've
got calvin and hobbes i can also include all the don rosa duck books stuff like tintin and pippin
because i've never read any of these newspaper weekly type series of books that they've done
kelvin and hub seems to be the most critically acclaimed one and when i watch a lot of other
people's room tours this seems to be the book that everybody's got for some reason i've just never
brought this i don't even know what it's about i've seen this on sale so many times and being
tempted to just pick it up because of the acclaim that i've heard dates got well i would mainly
every time i brought a book based on the hype that other people have built for it i've normally been
disappointed by the title so it might be a good thing that i haven't brought this one but still
this is one of those that i do feel like people would judge me for not having but either way
it's not my collection number 18 and the first one that is in the collection but i haven't read
yet it's superman for all seasons yep this also got a nod in my where to start superman because
of the fact that it comes so highly recommended but especially when you think about jeff lobe
and tim sale these are a creative duo that people seem to have read everything for i keep intending
to pick this up and give it a read because of the fact that batman by jeff logan tim sale was the
first book that i ever reviewed on this channel and i get the feeling like this would be a book
that i'd enjoy because it seems wholesome a lot of people seem to like this already but for some
reason every time i'm about to crack this one open another book just comes in and gets fast
tracked to the top of me to read pile number 17 and i can feel the hate that's gonna come
through in the comments but i've got lock and key i thought i'd read more of this than i had this is
why it's quite low down on the list because of the fact that i have actually read i think the first
two issues of this and that was when he was coming out in singles because of the fact that he was so
hyped up because this was stephen king's son that was how they had to market this book at the time
because joe hill hadn't built up his reputation i've got the box set and i'm tempted to get that
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and key is one of those series that i know i'm gonna return to i haven't bothered watching the
netflix series because people say that the book is so much better which is another reason why it's so
low down on this list and i'm tempted to read this as part of one of my october reads for halloween
if that's something that you'd like to see let me know in the comment section below number 16 i've
got lone wolf and cub now yeah i know i say i'm not a manga guy but i feel like lone wolf and cub
is one of those books that transcends the medium that it's in in a similar way to stuff like dragon
ball z and watchmen it becomes something that isn't just identified by the product of what
it is yeah i really understand what meant there either but this is one of those titles that i'm
really interested in and i believe it's darkhorse who's got the rights for this so i'm hoping that
they do some deluxe editions similar to what they did for berserk but this seems to be one of those
epic tales that everybody raves about i would like to read this it's just it's not easy to do
number 15 and again the embarrassment just keeps creeping in because i've got usagu jimbo now in my
defense i wanted those limited edition hardcovers i've got two of them so far and that was the way
that i wanted to pick these books up and i have read usogyujimbo tmnt but i classed that as a
teenage mutant ninja turtles book and considering how reviewed this stan sakai book is i feel like
i need to give this a read at some point i'm really happy that phantom graphics is releasing
that limited edition set again and that's another book that you can order from a sponsor organic
price books but i want to read this because i'm really interested in samurai culture and i know
obviously there wasn't really many rabbits that were actually summarized that was something that
took a long time for me to accept but you know here we are and i know this is a lot of people's
favorite titles and hopefully one day i will get my hands on it but for now i haven't read any of
it number 14 i've got 100 bullets i've got a random trade paperback of this series but i've
never actually read the full run and this feels really weird to me because when i was getting
into comics i gravitated towards quite a lot of vertigo titles i loved preacher why the last man
i even loved some of the more obscure stuff like the exterminators maybe it's just the pressure of
there being so many issues of this but i can't even really use that as an excuse because i've
gladly read stuff like invincible and ultimate spider-man number 13 and if you're watching
this mr omar please turn off at this point in the video because i've got x-men days of future past
the weirdest thing is i've owned this storyline in three different versions and still never read it
when i was getting into comics i had this weird digest sized format book that i think was from
like some random publisher that wasn't actually marvel and i didn't read that edition because
of the fact that i wanted it in a normal format so then i got a trade paperback and i never read that
either now i've finally got the uncanny x-men and omnibus and i still haven't cracked open this part
of the story but i have still read stories from this even like giant size x-men the dark phoenix
saga and god loves man kills so i have no idea why this is a blip on my radar but if i look at some
of the biggest x-men stories of all time this is the one that sticks out like a sore thumb because
of the fact that i've never read it number 12 and it just gets worse i'm really regretting making
this video but i've got everything humanoids yes i remember when the meta barons collectors edition
was coming out i saw that i thought it was really beautiful but i realized i knew nothing about the
company that was printing this they've got such a plethora of titles that i don't even know which
ones are the go-tos that i should pick up and now that i know that they've got super fancy limited
editions that's the only format that i would settle for but i think they're mostly all out
of print now people who've read these titles rave about them and i've even had people commenting on
my videos saying that this is a series that i need to pick up i've been trying to expand my
horizons a little bit and buy more european comics but for some reason this is just something that's
never made its way into the dog pound number 11 i've got essex county i love jeff lemire i heard
about him when sweet tooth was coming out because issue one was only being sold for a dollar and
then i started going back and looking at some of his other titles and essex county was something
that was on my radar but for whatever reason i just didn't buy it i want to and people say that
this is a great collection of stories that often makes people cry and if there's one thing that
you know about me it's that i love a good cry so i have no idea why i haven't picked this one
up i know jeff lemire's autism for everybody but for some reason i just find it really unique and
interesting but again i know that there are fancy holdback limited editions of this series that i'll
probably never get and for some reason i think that just makes me resent the series as a whole
number 10 and possibly the biggest silverage event that i've just never read is the death of
gwen stacy i've seen this storyline referenced in so many other comics but for some reason
i've just never gone and read the original i've read stuff like spider-man no more and the
galactus trilogy but for some reason this is the blip on my radar i normally tend to find myself
getting a bit frustrated with silverage titles which is why i never really tend to buy a lot
of them but the ones that tend to hold the most importance i've tried my best to at least read
those parts of history but this is the one that just doesn't seem to have made its way into my
collection number nine i've got pride of baghdad again this is another one of those that for some
reason i thought that i'd read but when i looked through it i realized that i haven't this made it
quite high as well into my top 10 most wanted dc absolute editions and i still do really want to
buy this title i think the art's beautiful i've loved pretty much all of the brian k
vaughn stories that i've read i've even done a playlist of the books videos that i've read so you
might want to check that one out but because of the fact that brian k vaughn's got so many go-to
titles like sagar paper girls and why the last man it seems like this one doesn't get talked about as
much so maybe that's factored into the reason why i haven't read this one just yet but either way
it's something that i do want to rectify at some point in my comic reading journey number eight and
for someone who says he loves events as much as i do this one's a bit of an embarrassment because
i've got secret wars both the jonathan hickman won but i'm more talking about the one from the 80s
this was pretty much the first marvel event and so many good things came out as a result of this it's
probably the reason why we have so many events at the moment which i know the majority of comic
fans don't like and some of them are still pretty enjoyable i'm a bit of an event apologist and this
is where spider-man got his black suit which is one of my favorite looks for that character so i
still got no idea why i haven't read this one it might be because of the fact that the omnibus is
really difficult to get and that pretty much was just a glorified oversized hardcover i don't know
maybe my own pettiness towards that is the reason why this isn't in the collection number seven and
i am embarrassed to admit this one as well because i've got the boys i love gothen he's his punisher
run was probably the best on the bus that i've reviewed so far this year preacher is one of my
favorite titles of all time and i think i have actually read maybe the first issue with this
but for some reason i just haven't read the full thing so i do think i have to technically put this
one on the list and because of the fact that the tv show is so high profile now it is a bit of an
embarrassment from my part that i've never read this one i've got the six trade paperbacks and
i made sure that i definitely didn't get the tv covers so this has to be something that i read
sooner rather than later but as of this time i do feel a little bit disappointed in myself because
of the fact that i've never read this series number six so the last one was about boys and
this is one that i'll probably never be able to review on this channel but i've got alan moore's
lost girls i love alan moore as a creator he is going to be the next one that gets the top five
notable work so make sure you subscribe so that you can watch that one and actually whilst i'm
asking for stuff give this video a thumbs up i need all the support that i can get because of
the fact that i'm trying to repent for my sins of not reading these classic books but alan moore as
a creator when i'm thinking about all of his books the biggest and most high profile title
of his that i haven't read so far probably is this one and admittedly i don't really know if i've got
any intention of reading it because of the fact that all i really hear about is the controversy
that surrounds it i've also heard as well that the ages surrounding the girls that are in it is a bit
murky so i'm not really sure if this is something that i do want to own but like i said in terms of
alan moore's a creator this is his biggest title that i haven't read number five and this one's
actually quite funny that he's making it onto this list because i've got mouse this is one of
those books that they say that people who aren't even into comics need to read and i studied this
as part of my university course and blacked my way through it without ever reading this book it's one
of those books that's got such a heavy subject matter that i know that i'd have to be in the
right mindset to read and have just not been in that mood like i respect what this book does and
how important it is for the comic book landscape but the end of the day it's like i say me reviews
i read comics for fun and i want to just pick up books that i think are going to entertain me i
know this is one of those that i probably should have read and it is a little bit of a disrespect
because of the fact that i haven't and even more so because of the fact that on the slim chance
that my university lecturer from about five years ago is watching this he'll know that i completely
bluffed my way into that essay but still as of this time i've just never read this book
number four and it's the exact same situation as the last one because i've got black hole again
this is another one of those books that doesn't really seem to be seen as a comic it is more just
strictly a graphic novel but this is another one of those books i had to study for university and
when i saw it on the syllabus i thought to myself great this is one of those titles that everybody's
always been talking about and i've never read but it was one of my last semesters at university and
this is when i was getting the idea for full girl which is the book that i wrote and that i'm trying
to get published right now and all my time was just dedicated to planning that book out so the
one time that i actually had a corset i probably could have done well in a self-sabotage myself and
as a result of that i never got a chance to read black hole number three i've got grant morrison's
doom patrol yes i do have the omnibus of this and i was very excited when i got in but as of this
time it still remains sealed and the reason why i now keep books sealed is because of the fact that
there are titles that i think i've read because of the fact that i've heard so much about them
but i haven't actually read so if i keep it sealed i know that i've never actually opened it not sure
if that makes sense to anybody else but it's my collection and that's the process that works for
me and i've had quite a few of grant morrison's books but they seem like that created that no
matter how many of their titles i've actually read there's always about 10 more that just seem
to appear it reminds me of that bad guy in hellboy that for everyone you take down two more created
but even something like the invisibles i've read the first couple of issues for but doom patrol
i've not even touched i will eventually read this but for grant morrison titles sometimes i need a
lot of preparation before i go into them number two i've got bone last year i did finally get my
hands on the all-in-one complete color collection and it is absolutely beautiful and i do believe
it's the 30th anniversary of this series this year so i feel like i should read this i've actually
got him a plan to maybe read this in september or november so it is something that's on the horizon
but i do feel a lot of disappointment to myself for not reading this because of the fact that
it seems like such an easy read i've heard people comparing this to the lord of the rings but with
a cartoony art style and it looks like something that i would enjoy and this is one of those titles
that i genuinely feel like i am one of the only people in the comic book community that's never
read this but the point of this video is that near enough every pic that's on this list is something
that i do eventually want to read but we've only got so much finite time so i never want anybody
to feel like they don't belong as part of this community if they haven't read a certain book and
you're probably wondering why i'm saying this now and it's because of the fact that my number one
pick is the one that i feel i will get the most hate for it's one of those books that if they were
ever doing some kind of comic book training camp it'd probably be at the top of the list because
it's none other the neil gaiman sandman this is one of those books that's got so much prestige
that sometimes i've just gone yeah it's great because of the fact that i don't want to say that
i haven't read it and that's the reason why i'm doing this video because i don't want other people
to feel ashamed of what they have or haven't read as long as you've brought a comic you are part of
the comic book community but this is often said to be the best food to go title and when people
do their list of the top 10 greatest comics of all time this is often in there i know i should have
read this i've got the omnibuses but if i'm being honest i feel like there's so much pressure that
comes with reading this book there's been a couple of occasions when i've looked out on my shelf
and i've wondered to myself is it time but i feel like i need more preparation if this is truly one
of the greatest comics of all time i want to make sure that i'm ready for that experience i'm making
it sound like sandman's my date for the prom and i'm not sure if i should go back home with it
after but honestly that is a little bit how i feel with this title that if i'm ready i'm never gonna
have as good of an experience as everybody said that you get from it there are books that often
get so hyped it feels like it's never gonna live up to that expectation and i feel like sandman
is in that category so it's definitely gonna take me number one pick and i hope that i do
eventually get the courage to read this because i'm not really scared by much so it doesn't make
sense that a book is the one thing that's really my foil but that's me listening it feels great to
finally get this off my shoulders i can't wait to see everybody absolutely crucify me in the comment
section below but if you feel brave enough i dare you to post what is the book that's so critically
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