I've recently got into reading comics and graphic novels. any recommendations?

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I've recently got into reading comics and graphic novels. any recommendations?

Answer 1

Definitely the Sandman series. My all time favorite. (Anything by Neil Gaiman is the best!) Books of Magic is also good. Hellblazer is good too. (John Constantine rox my sox ;) ) Those are my favorites...along with Watchmen & Preacher which you've read already. ^_^ I also have a favorite manga that is really good, it's called Blade of the Immortal. Samurai action, love it!

Answer 2

You might want to try picking up some new on going series.... If you like the darker and more "Indy feel" stuff then you might like Bodybags, Knights of the Dinner Table, League of Extrodinary Gentlemen. If you want to read more "mainstream" things I suggest Wolverine, Red Sonja, GI Joe, Rex Mundi, Punisher and/ or Justice. All are constantly well written and drawn.

and if you are into manga i'd go with Hellsing and Full Metal Alchemist.



Hope even one of them is worth the cover proce for you!

Answer 3

Tank Girl. The movie, the comic books, all of it.

Answer 4

JTHM- johnny the homicidal maniac- sounds like a grusome terror book, but hidden in all of the wirdness is a sence of humor you never thought you had. trust me you will like this book. from the maker of invader zim on cartoon network. also made the book squee, this charictor shows up in JTHM. anyone i know who have read it have absolutly loved it.



also try Maus 1 and 2- about WWII- is cleverly dipicted as a cat and mouse(maus) time, pigs also join in the fight. very well made

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Bone by Jeff Smith is (was) good. The series is complete. It's different in that it's more 'cartoony' that other graphic novels, but the characters are interesting and the myth he creates is fascinating.

Answer 7

I will reccommend you authors:



Milo Manara

Alejandro Jodorowski

Moebius

Frank Miller

Howard Chaykin

Paul Kupperberg

Alan Moore

Leonardo Manco

Enrique Alcatena



Some classics are:

The Spirit

Den

Superman - Man of Steel

Answer 8

Anything by Kyle Baker: "The Cowboy Wally Show," "You Are Here," "I Die at Midnight," "Why I Hate Saturn," "King David," and "Nat Turner" are all genius.



Also, "Superman: Secret Identity" by Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen.

Answer 9

The original Dark Knight Returns. Usagi Yojimbo,

The Road to Perdition, maybe even compilations of Liberty Meadows. and if you haven't, Crisis on Infinite Earths. B.

Answer 10

Here are some good older series from a 35 year plus reader/collector.



1. The Dark Knight Returns



2. The Frank Miller run on Daredevil



3. SCUD:The Disposable Assassin



4. Kingdom Come



5. Stray Bullets by David Lapham



6. The Uncanny X-Men #141 - 142 Days of Future Past



7. The Hulk: Future Imperfect 2 part mini



8. The Incredible Hulk #351 - 359 Mr. Fixit in Vegas



9. Strangers in Paradise any of the series



10. Sin City by Frank Miller

Answer 11

Take a trip to a comic book store and check out some of the older (70's and 80's) Marvels. That was a great era. You will find that you will gravitate towards a certain hero much like I did with Captain America. Even though the modern mags are glossy and expensive, the struggles of the characters in the older books are classic.

Answer 12

First of all there is nothing wrong with reading comics no matter what anyone else on here says. Many successful and worthwhile people read comics.



My recommendations:

1. Any uncanny X-men from the Chris Claremont days.

2. Joss Whedon's Fray

3. And my favorite, Terry Moore's Strangers In Paradise.



Honestly I stopped reading comics a few years ago because keeping up with all the books was a pain and with raising gas prices, I had to cut out something, but I NEVER stopped buying Strangers in Paradise (SIP). It's one of the best books out there. In fact my avatar here is Katchoo from SIP.

Answer 13

It will always depend on your taste like I loved the Sin City series, but some people dont.



Ive heard Frank Miller's "Return of the Dark Night/Dark Night returns" (something like that) is really good but not the sequel by him.

Also Kingdom come is pretty good as far as superhero stuff goes



Maus I and II are real good

David Boring & Ice Haven is good (as is pretty much anything daniel clowes)



and also look for anything Will Eisner. He's considered the grandfather of the graphic novel and the best ever. He did stuff with panels, imagery, and storytelling that was decades before his time.



(thumbs up for "from hell") i had to read it for a graphic novel english class at my university and hated that book.

Answer 14

The Dark Knight Returns is awesome. Judging by what you say you've liked, I think you would also enjoy Eightball by Dan Clowes, anything by Los Bros Hernandez (Love and Rockets, etc), 100 Bullets. Ask your local comic store clerk. If you can stand the attitude (comic book guy on the Simpsons is close to reality at a lot of stores) they can probably recommend some good stuff. :)

Answer 15

Hands down "The Sandman" by Neil Gaimen. There are 12/13 volumes in all but all a must read. Or anything done by Frank Miller and Alan Moore. I really liked 300 by Frank Miller. It's short but sweet. Bone is pretty good also. League of Extradornary Gentlemen. Crossovers by various artists and writers. Witchblade.

Answer 16

The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller



Uncle Sam - Alex Ross



Kingdom Come - Alex Ross



Sin City - Frank Miller



Sandman



Black Widow



Love & Rockets - Los Bros Hernandez



Red Son

Answer 17

The first 75 or so issues of Strangers in Paradise are out in 5 big paperbacks. Addictive stuff.

If you can afford 'em, the first series of Love and Rockets are out as two hardcovers... $50 each (!).

See if you can track down American Flagg by Howard Chaykin. I think it's coming out in paperback collections again; awesome art, stories, and.... lettering (yes).

John Byrne's 'Fantastic Four' run is on volume 5 in convenient paperback form.

Miller's Sin City and Batman: the Dark Night Returns.

Jeff Smith's The Complete Bone.

Chris Ware's Quimby the Mouse.

Answer 18

Older Frank Miller stuff (Dark Knight Returns, Daredevil Visionaries collections, Daredevil Born Again, Ronin). His more recent stuff shows a boring lack of development as a writer/artist.



Alan Moore through the years -- from his astonishing American beginnings with Swamp Thing (stunning work) all the way through his recent ABC work (Tomorrow Stories, part of Promethea). He very rarely disappoints.



And I have to second the Kyle Baker suggestions. From the works you're saying you enjoy, Kyle Baker's work seems to fit in.

Answer 19

Lone Wolf and Cub.

Will Eisner's The Spirit (I still have the Warren/Kitchen Sink reprints that started in the early 70s and I am 47 now and still read them periodically)

Groo The Wanderer (Sergio Aragones)

I Am Legend adaptation by Marvel.



These were a few favorites

Answer 20

I love Chaos Comics...



Great story lines, dark interesting comics.



Bad Kitty - my personal favorite out of print but you can find on Ebay and at some comic book stores



Smiley - haven't read yet but hear it is pretty good

Evil Ernie

Pergatori - Very good series

Chastity - similar to Bad Kitty they even are in some comics together



hope this helps and you find what you are looking for :)

Answer 21

Everyone pretty much covered what I was gpong to say....um....I'm just going to add Swamp Thing (The Alan Moore and Rick Veitch trades) Any of Alan Moores Tom Strong series and Veitch's "Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset", Marvels, Kingdom Come, and my personal favorite "John Constantine: HellBlazer" Start with the Ennis trade "Dangerous Habits" then go back to "original sins" oh and Mke Carey's "Lucifer" is aces.

Answer 22

Any DC books written BEFORE 1985.



Any Marvel books, written before their 90s re-set.



90% of what was written after that point is plain god-AWEful.



Comics when from being escapist fantasy, to being a gritty mirror of todays headlines.



Try Grimjack, by First Comics. It was an EXCELLENT book. They are ong gone, but those issues are being republished in a collected format.

Answer 23

Read the two graphic novels that started the whole phenomenon. They're better than 95% of the crap being produced now.



Maus, by Art Speigelman

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Maus-Survivor-Tale/dp/0679406417/sr=1-3/qid=1158048737/ref=pd_bbs_3/103-4189020-6631841?ie=UTF8&s=books



Elfquest, by Wendy and Richard Pini

http://www.amazon.com/Elfquest-Archives-Vol-Wendy-Pini/dp/1401201288



Did you notice that almost every review on Amazon for the two series is "5 out of 5"? The "Dark Knight" Batman stories (which is supposedly legendary) and "Sin City" pale in comparison to EQ and Maus.





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Answer 24

Anything that Alex Ross paints. Kingdom Come was excellent. I enjoy the recent Batman, Superman, Green Lantern comics. I'm a traditionalist, I like my heroes with capes and masks. Batman: Hush is excellent, if you're into Batman, that's the one to get.

Answer 25

There are to many good series to list out there, but if i had to name 4 i'd say go for



1) the original x-men (it's totally worth it)

2)kingdom come series(The flash kicks **** in that one)

3) the secret wars(good old spiderman in his symbiote costume)

4) and DEFINUTLY look up the what if comic "what if kovak had lived..... you see Phoenix and an even stronger and less known version (korvak) duke it out... its freaking sweet.

Answer 26

The Sandman or anything by Neil Gaiman.



Anything by Moebius is mind-blowing, too.



I have read some other comics but these are far better than anything else I've ever read.

Answer 27

I haven't really read much American comics, but I really like the translated japanese manga. Just a random thought, but maybe sometime you should check out that section and see if there's anything that strikes your fancy. The stories can be kinda out there, but that only adds to the fun. ;)

Answer 28

Sin City

Answer 29

X-men

Spiderman (its really funny)

Daredevil

Batman



I personally prefer the newer versions of the comic books. The older ones are hard to see.

Answer 30

The first place to start is X-men, then you have to read alan moore's "top 10" books

watch the backgrounds for referances to television, movie and comicbook pop culture.

you should also see the 'tom strong' and 'jonni future' series' with the art of arthur adams.

jonni's costume...WOW.

Answer 31

Flight edited by Kazu Kibuishi



Soulfire by Michael Turner



The Silver Surfer series



LOBO <----- cannot go wrong there, always a good chuckle or two.

Answer 32

Art Spiegelman-- "Maus 1 & 2," and appropriately for today, "In the Shadow of No Towers."

Answer 33

I have recently read Dan Brown's "The Davinci Code" and his "Angels and Demons" I though they were awsome. They were very graphic and had allot of interesting facts in them. I couldn't hardly put them down they were so good.

Answer 34

Runaways is an awesome new grpahic novel by Marvel. Great artwork and awesome story.

Answer 35

Dark Knight returns and Ronan are two classics

Answer 36

I think Witchblade is cool.

Way better than the TV series.

At least the main character is hot in the comic book...

Answer 37

Read an excellent indian comics here.

Answer 38

Marvel comics and DC comics

Answer 39

you should checkout the Sin City series they are very good! If you want to checkout the one that the movie was based off its called "That Yellow B@stard" its pretty good

Answer 40

Sin City, Spawn are good

Answer 41

I like battle pope.

If you goto the comicon convention when it is near you, you will discover lots off cool stuff.

Answer 42

check out for ''battle royale" next time u stop to a comic book shop. it's great !!!!

Answer 43

Well i know it is kind of old but some American Justice league, batman , and x-men and spider-man well have fun reading hope you enjoy!!!!!!!!!:)

Answer 44

try the marvel's ultimate universe series



ultimate spider-man

ultimate fantastic four

the ultimates

ultimate x-men

Answer 45

I reccommend 'Fray', by Joss Whedon. You can get the whole series in one collection, now.

Answer 46

Check out Adult FanFiction.net

Answer 47

Strangers in Paradise



Used to be quite the addict, I did!

Answer 48

try the crow, I think you find it as combined story from original comics...

Answer 49

if you like romance and fantasy try Fruits Basket.

Answer 50

well go to a section that might have th ething you like

Answer 51

Blade of the Immortal is by far the best ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 52

try death note. its awesome.