Most satisfying endings to a series

X-Statix.

X-Statix is a very good call. Also, and maybe Tep can get my back on this - Midnight Nation (the Top Cow mini by JMS & Gary Frank). The way the series ends is a bit too quaint & pwecious, but the climax was suprisingly satisfying. Also satisfying (though I haven't read the entire run just yet) - the final issue of Frank Miller's initial Daredevil run, a stand-alone story featuring DD & a guy in a hospital playing Russian Roulette (IIRC).

I like the final Morrison issue NXM. I'm not a huge fan of Here Comes Tomorrow in general, but I'm a sucker for all that white hot room stuff at the end, and the reappearance of Quentin Quire. A little too much happens in that one issue, but I'm okay with it. It's more of an epilogue anyway - Planet X was the end of the story proper, and I loved that (in spite of its bizarro pacing.)

(was the final Q&W the one where Acclaim published the issue that would have been out if there was no hiatus? It sounded very odd at the time…)

Agreed about Doom Patrol. The ending of his JLA run, though, is one of my favourite moments in comics. Batman lecturing Clark! Oracle standing up! Justice League Reserves! Angels everywhere! It's just the perfect end to a superhero team book.

TF UK #332 is probably the most unsatisfying ending. Mainly because they had promised that it would be continuing two weeks before. Then Prime shows up and everything ends abruptly. The comic itself was full of weird font issues, as if the situation had changed at the very last moment, and everything had to be hastily rewritten. Turned me off comics for a couple of years, that did.

Re: JMS: after the very poor politics of the last few issues, the penultimate Rising Stars has a great twist at the end which a) makes perfect sense and b) really makes me want to read the last issue.

I need to go read PAD's issue of the Hulk, because that's one I'll be disappointed in if it isn't terrific.

Oeming's last Thor, but since his whole arc was an ending, maybe that gave him too much of a head start.

Definitely the last issue of Emerald Twilight, when Hal wakes up in bed with Suzanne Pleshette.

The last issue of Resurrection Man -- actually, the last few issues -- were kind of cumbersome and disappointing, after such a good run of stories.

Oddly enough I can't remember much about the last issue of the Invisibles, only the penultimate one with the awful art and the anticlimactic confrontation with the Archons.

I know a lot of people here loathe the Preacher finale, but it worked as a big back-to-the-I-chord, loose-ends-tied ending.

The only other non-ltd series I've seen stuck with to the end was DC's short-lived Phantom and that was pretty meh, as well.

Shh, don't tell anyone.

I'm tempted to say Tintin as well, because the last couple of panels in the last Tintin album Hergé finished (Tintin and the Picaros) are the most cynical moment in the whole series - though it could be argued, and with good reason, that the series shouldn't have ended on such a sour note.

I like how you call You-Know-Who "a guy"!

That was me being smooth by mistake.