Ten Reasons 1986 is the Coolest Year in Comics!

1986 ROCKED! and here's why.

1. Alan Moore's Watchmen: the best comic book macro-series EVER!

2. Frank Miller's Batman, The Dark Knight Retuns: Saved Batman from the TV series campy curse.

3. Miller's and Seinkiewicz's Elektra, Assassin: Seinkiewicz's over the top art style mixed with Miller's over the top writing makes for one sweet book.

4. Marv Wolfman's and George Perez's Crisis on Infinite Earths: Started in 1985 but ended in 1986 with the DC Universe being completely rebooted. These series saw main characters die and "real" consequences in the battle against evil!

5. Aquaman's New Costume: Just kidding! this costume with it's all blue water theme was horrible.

6. Alan Moore's and Curt Swan's Superman, Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?: Is an amazing farewell to the comics of yesteryear and a goodbye to an artist that drew Superman for over a decade.

7. John Byrne's Superman, Man of Steel: This was a major reboot of the number #1 superhero of all time. It was an attempt to bring comics in to a more reality type based medium where stories played a greater part of a characters development.

8. Marvel's New Universe: Launched on the 25th Anniversary of Marvel Comics this was a new reality based separate from the Marvel Universe. This Universe was supposed to exist in the "real-world"including operate in "real-time"; roughly a year would lapse in the universe for each year that passed in reality

9. X-Men's Mutant Massacre: This crossover in the "X-Verse" led to some far reaching and character alternating consequences. The Angel is crucified losing his wings, the Morlocks are killed by the dozens, Colossus kills a villain with his bare hands and barely survives the encounter.

10. Optimus Prime Dies: This didn't happen in the comic-verse, but in the animated movie Transformers, The Movie. But I would argue that the Transformers are so comic book like that this deserves to be part of the ten. Plus Optimus Prime and his death was so cool!

So did I win the argument for 1986 being the coolest year in comics?