absolute beginner's questions

i agree that the first book of sin city is the cut off point; the other books and Liberty have moments but they're often horrible

it's very very hard for me to see dark knight the same way as i did when it first came out as i got copies about a year after the release and those babies are catnip for a thirteen year old. they're all but unreadable now but v v pretty btw.

my longer form miller flowchart is roughly as follows (the importance of Darrow, Gibbons, Mazzucchelli, Jansen is hard to understate):
daredevil first run > daredevil second run > ronin > Sin City v.1 up to big fat kill >hard boiled > year one > martha washington > rusty and the big guy > elektra > later sin city > wolverine > Dark Knight > DK2 > all star batman and robin

"hard to overstate"

http://thegoldenagesite.blogspot.ie/2013/11/marshall-rogers-batman-portfolio-1981.html

I haven't seen much Marshall Rogers, but this stuff is pretty good.

Jeez, when it comes to a lot of the art you'll have to tolerate from mid-80s onward superhero comics, Romita Jr is a godsend. Tim Sale, Walter Simonson, Jerry Ordway, Chris Weston and Alan Davis are talented too. Mike Weiringo and Ed McGuinness have quite pleasant cartoony styles but don't know how often you're likely to bump into them if you're looking for storylines. I don't think Kevin Nowlan ever done a proper "run" on any superhero but he's good.

Rogers' artwork got more anatomically wayward the further he got away from Terry Austin, but I like the architectural flamboyance of his best work, and even have a fondness for Detectives Inc

Agree that JR JR only got really good after DareDevil Year One, but for a while he was easily Marvel's best, most consistent superhero artist