been a comic fan almost my whole life. my first experience with comics was finding spider man number 1 at my grandma's house! I remember that I wasn't at reading age at the time, but I instantly fell in love with the visuals. I also developed a strong respect for it at that early age. Been reading ever since. Kinda on an on again off again pace though. Two of my best friends are comic writers and artists. You might have heard of them, Matt and Mike Cossin. They've done pencil and color work for G.I. Joe and some other books. They are working on some really cool stuff right now!

To answer your questions:
anything Spiderman
I've loved spidey and dark knight returns was really great back in the day. daredevil was pretty good
Brian Micheal Bendis and Miller before he went nuts with DKII
Mark Bagley

And I have read 300... It was good visually, but I've seen the story before.