The Incal is just that good and while it’s expensive, maybe hard to find depending on where your from and a large, expansive reading experience it will be worth more then every penny you pay, all the effort you take finding it and all the time it takes consuming it and while I may praise a lot of comics on here and I stand by almost all of that (sorry for anybody that listened to me on Paul Cornell’s Wolverine) there is nothing I’ve written about here that on my first time reading experience has been anywhere close to being on the level as The Incal. After reading The Incal I immediately put it fourth on that list trailing only The Dark Knight Returns, All Star Superman & Morrisons New X-Men and if you told me that The Incal was better then those books I couldn’t give a valid argument against that statement. The vast majority of it is late 1960’s to the late 1980’s or the early to mid 2000’s from Marvel & DC comics or the can’t not be there indie books like From Hell, Love & Rockets or American Flagg. The oldest is Jack Kirby and Stan Lee’s Fantastic Four.
The newest title on that list is the first volume of Uncanny X-Force 1-20. I have a list of the seventy best comics ever created. So you probably have had the experience of reading that comic series that everybody told you about and being like “that was great” but it’s rare that something can exceed your expectations in a way so disproportionately to what was already very high hopes to begin with but then you if you were like me a few weeks ago you hadn’t read The Incal yet because there are very few comics ever created in the history of the medium that are this imaginative, this thoughtful, this heartfelt or this good. The writer who initially sparked my interest in returning to comics in my twenties has only read one Alan Moore comic I’m not writing this to shit on dude because honestly if I could write about comics 1% as good as Brandon Soderberg does about anything including comics I can walk away from this site knowing I accomplished something but more to illustrate that the depth of readership in comics is fluid and anybody claiming expertise in the medium is likely full of shit, arrogant or both. Because of the sheer volume of material every comics fan has a huge back catalogue that they plan on reading someday and if you don’t your doing it wrong.
The directors movie that was underappreciated on it’s initial release, the author that you weren’t aware of who you would supposedly love or the album that was canonical that you never got around to hearing. Anybody that pays close attention to pop art has the “on my list” stuff that you want to check out but missed out on when you first jumped in the fan base.
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