10 Best Single Issue Comics Stories You Might Not Have Read

Brian Michael Bendis is best known for his ultra-decompressed style and Tarantino-esque dialogue.

In single-issue format, readers find it takes less time to read one of Bendis’ books than one of his contemporaries. They are often comprised of densely packed dialogue pages and then large-scale shots of destruction, action or a helicopter coming into land. There is even one famous case of Luke Cage travelling up in a lift for two pages.

Before he hit the big time at Marvel with the likes of Ultimate Spider-Man and Daredevil, Bendis worked for Todd McFarlane. writing the first nineteen issues of Sam and Twitch, a supernatural detective book that spun out of the pages of Spawn. Most of his work on the book was six-eight issue story arcs, but in between these Bendis would write stand-alone stories. The best of them is One Bad Day.

Bantz is a run-of-the-mill thug and 10-time loser. In a stunning stroke of bad luck, he finds himself trying to outrun Sam and Twitch through the city's gritty underbelly after trying unsuccessfully to flee the scene of his latest crime. This issue is told entirely from the thug's point of view.