Comics That Are Better Now Than When You First Got Into Them

Oh I mean serially published comics, i.e. comparing the current stuff to the stuff that got you started.

Not "Love And Rockets gets better every time I re-read it", though comics that stand re-reading would make for a good thread.

Eightball just keeps getting more and more amazing. A lot of the typical folk are growing up nicely, like Chester Brown and Seth just keep getting better and better. Gilbert Hernandez's main plotline has lost a lot of steam since the original run of Love and Rockets has ended, but his weird underground-esque shorts are amazing and Julio's Day is incredible.

Well, I like New X-Men better than any of the stories that got me into things as a kid. I don't know if better is the right word though...it's as appropriate for the current me who likes post-modernism and all things meta as Claremont was for me as a kid.

Green Arrow is better now than it was in the late 80s. While I appreciate what Mike Grell was doing with the character--taking him out of the spandex-verse, allowing/forcing him to age--too often the stories didn't quite live up to the task. Unfortunately, as time went on, what once an interesting take on a (sometimes)(nominally)masked-vigilante dealing with life after 40 simply became a burden to less imaginative creators.
Really, though, despite the big name writers the current series has seen (Kevin Smith, Brad Meltzer, Judd Winnick), what makes it for me is the wonderful art of Phil Hester and Ande Parks. Their clean lines and nearly-Kirby-ish stylization are fun to look at.

While I have no idea what the X-Men franchise is like these days, I find it hard to believe that it could be any worse than the era that I got into them in: the Team Gold/Team Blue phase.

I'd mention that I also started up on Batman more or less during "Knightfall", but truth be told I was already familiar with the character back then (through the live action series, the animated show, and "Year One"), so I dunno if that counts.

Man, those were great times to get into the superhero genre here, tho, despite the crappyness of the storylines...the books were still exports from Brazil, and thus both very cheap and THICK; plus some of the big-shot storylines just appeared in big collected volumes straight away. Now we've adapted to the american system (i.e. short and expensive), and I just can't rock that (Disney comics, thankfully, keep the faith w/r/t the old formats.)

i'd have to agree with jordan, i find the new x-men line has grown better since i started reading.