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No, I never read Young Justice. A quick check on Wikipedia revealed that it started in 1998, a time when I was winding my way back into the Legion after an absence and had otherwise scaled back my comics purchases. I had no time or interest in another youthful super-team.

I'm often wrong about such things, though. The Hulk never appealed to me as a character (apart from his interaction with the other Defenders), but his book has at times been intelligently written and emotionally satisfying. Issue 226, which I mentioned above, was written by Roger Stern, who has the Hulk visiting his (Banner's) old college campus and confronting some past emotional demons. Annual 13, written by Bill Mantlo, is a moving piece about the need for friends. Writers like Stern, Mantlo, and PAD can take seemingly unpromising concepts and spin gold around them.

I'd have to go LSH (of course!)

second choice is tough, but I think Alpha Flight gets to go

Arguably, PAD's Young Justice was the book that the various reboots of the Legion (and, for that matter, the various reboots of the Titans) SHOULD have been but rarely were.

The first year of PAD's YJ is a bit frivolous and some of the jokes are groaners (although they come so thick and fast that the duds are excusable), but it really turns a corner with issue #15. Cissie, Anita, Cassie, and Suzie/Greta, and Cissie and Cassie's mothers were some of the most believeable female characters ever seen in a superhero comic. The whole run is never less than worth reading, and it should have been much longer than just 55 issues. It seems to me the whole reason it was cancelled was because the DiDiot just didn't GET it, which I think says a lot about the DiDiot.

1. Legion of Super-Heroes- Probably Three-Boot simply because that's when I discovered Legion. Elysion is mine. Looking back, while the plot was sometimes lacking the characterization was excellant.

2.Fantastic Four- Kirby/Lee is great with the team, and Byrne is excellant as well. But I really love Waid and Wieringo's run, which I have reread countless times. They ran character analysis and did tons of research. It paid off big time because they managed to combine the right amount of action and light-hearted moments.

I just notice both of these titles had Waid as writers. I guess I really like his writing style.

1) LSH, for sure. I'll cheat by bringing ALL appearances, so I get to have Crisis on Infinite Earths too. There's enough material there to be pleasantly entertained for quite a while.

2) I'm torn between JLA and JSA. A lot of my favorite characters were with the JLA, but the membership comes and goes... on the other hand, I've enjoyed JSA immensely in the past few years.

If I really had to pick I'd go with JLA. Love reading the JLI bits!