Most Emotional Comics

[samnyc]

Seeing that there are more comic book fans on this site than I thought, I wanted to get your input on this. I was surprised the first time a comic book got to me; I didn't think comic books were supposed to do that. This one, for example:

Uncanny X-men 304 -- When Illyana dies, Jubilee doesn't know how to react and finds out that, between Kitty and Jean, she was more friends on the team than she thought.

Which comics that you read as a kid have remained special to you?


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[samnyc]

Ok, another:

Wolverine 75 -- Wolverine is evacuated from the moon after losing his metal and going comatose in a battle with Magneto. But on reentry to the Earth's atmosphere the ship starts to fall apart (it's chilling to bring this up today huh?) and only Jean's telekinesis keeps it together. At the moment Jean is about to fall from the ship Wolverine regains semi-consciousness and grabs her by the hand. Jean says, "You came back to save me!?" and Wolvie replies "No, it was you who came back to save me," like the need to rescue his long time crush gave him the motivation not to acquiesce to death he lacked before. It's pretty sappy stuff admittedly, but it works really well here.


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[grlNIN]

Archie....

Do you think Archie ever really "accepted" Jughead for being a homosexual?

Betty and Veronica were both treated like they were whores under Archies Pimp hand

*and if you think about it, Jughead shoulda been the Pimp, he had the crown after all...)

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[Organ_Grinder]

urg i hate those popular titles. i guess thats because Marvel doesnt want my art so i hate everyone but Slave Labor...ohh how i love em.
i'd have to say the great Jhonen Vasquez's, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. It's amusing and twisted, but at the end (issue 7) gets pretty emotional, and you're not sure if Johnny, the evil maniac killer went away or killed himself. His diary entries were pretty damn funny and emotional. ...buy my comics :(

[WintersEmbers]

i cant remember the issue number but the one where colosus sacrifices himself to end the legacy virus the only other one i could even think of is the issue where Mary Jane and Peter Parker decide to go splitsville for a while. oh the heartbreak...

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[phixion]

sammynyc ur completely rite

but what about x-men 25?
xavier gathers logan, remy, jean, rogue, and quicksilver, and takes them to asteroid M, in what he believes will be the final confrontation with magneto. xavier tells scott that he doesnt think he will survive the battle. and that he must lead if anything happens to xavier. once they arrive the fallen x-man Colossus allows them to penetrate the defensive forces of ateroid M. during the battle Magneto almost killed Quicksilver, his own son. in retaliation logan gashes out a hunk of magneto's armor. erik then removed the adamantium from logans body. then when xavier could stand no more of this....... he forces magneto into a coma.

another one is watching gwen stacey accidently die at spider-man's hands. quite emotional.....

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[Se7en]

Amazing Spider-Man v.2 #36

The September 11th issue.

I've read hundreds, if not thousands of comics over the years, and none have brought me to the brink of tears. This one did.

Some people didn't like this issue, but I thought it was beautiful.

It's part Spider-Man's lament at not being able to prevent the tragedy, and part JMS' message of sorrow and hope.

A great comic, though. An issue that will be, unfortunately, remembered forever.

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Eh, it was alright. The Captain America 9/11 story hit me a lot harder. As well as these collections that came out just a couple months after the attack...

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[samnyc]

I agree with you on the JMS 9/11 book.

How about Amazing Spidey 400? Peter mourns the loss of his Aunt May, but so does his clone Ben Reilly who has the same memories of her as Peter. Reilly stays in the background and out of sight and his anguish comes off the pages with Bagley's great pencils and JM DeMattheis's decision to keep the dialogue bare.

If that doesn't get to you, the matching headstones for Aunt May and Uncle Ben on the last couple of pages will!


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[TheMojoPin]

Yeah, but then they ruined it by totally making her not dead, the fuckers. At least JMS has made her readable...and please, PLEASE keep MJ out of the comic. The idea of Peter Parker being married to a supermodel sucked 20 years ago, and it sucks just as righteously now.

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[Johnny4]

O.K. Don't know the # but it was a post ada mantium Wolverine were he was a little more Animal than man. Any way, Elektra decided to help him out and told him a story a bout her father that was touching. Quick moral of the story[ If you want to have a beautiful garden, your going to have to kill a few weeds] Someone should pass this parable over to France and Germany, those fuckin' pussies.

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[fezident]

I haven't read any comic books in a looong time, but I seem to remember a Wolverine mini-series of books in the early 80ies. I think Wolvie got the shit kicked outof him by some Japanese bad-asses (or something like that). I think he also lost his girlfriend/wife in that same series. I remember being moved by that.

Am I on dust? Did this series really exist?! Kinda makes me wish I didn't throw out all my comic books when I left home. My bitch-ass Mom wouldn't let me keep 'em in the attic!

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[Cybersoldier]

how about the issue when Professor X was killed, that was pretty emotional

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