Comic Books/Graphic Novels
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A place for all things comic book related from superheroes to Peanuts, film adaptations and action figures.
all time faves?
current reads?
recommendations?
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I may be come a regular in this thread
Fave Reads
Kingdom Come
The Dark Knight Returns
Every Crisis Story
Batman And Robin (Grant Morrison)
The Authority (Early stories only - really epic superhero stuff)
From Hell
The Watchmen
Anything written by Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, and most Mark Millar and Jeff Johns, anything illustrated by Frank QuietlyCurrent Reads
Transformers comic from 82 - 87 (I have every issue of the UK comic in a huge carrier bag)
Recommendations
The Authority
Planetary
Kingodm Come -
I've got the first 4 volumes of the Judge Dredd Case Files to get through on my Christmas break….I read the first 4 collected volumes of Preacher, it was good but I could never be arsed to buy any more...always seemed to be something more important to buy.
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Comic book heaven, Midtown Comics in NYC…
In an ideal world, this would be holding up my Busters.
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X-Men
The Watchmen
Hellboy
The Dark Knight Returns
The Walking Dead
V For Vendetta
Sin City -
Can't believe that I forgot The Walking Dead
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Great book, Great tv series
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100% agreement here.
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mainstream sickness that started me on my path to great story telling & people with issues:
i also loved the HBO Spawn cartoon series from years back. i have some more obscure stuff like grendel & other comics that were just kind of twisted, but the above are the ones that have stood the test of time for me.
bonus material
if i had a place to put them i would still buy comics
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yeah, some of those comics are older than some of our forum members
great stories are great stories regardless of format. wish i had more time to pursue all my twistedness
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I agree MM, I don't buy much new stuff at all. Luckily I have a massive back catalogue of awesomeness to keep me going.
Side note - Me and Tommy are currently playing Arkham City…...BEST GAME EVER!!
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Still haven't beat Arkham Asylum
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It's basically more of the same, but about 10 times bigger, and a lot prettier.
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Got a system running, leaves me some time to write a proper post.
This being an international forum, I will not care (also because I do not necessarily know) whether the comic, BD or manga has yet been translated in English, French, German, Japanese, Swahili or any other language… sorry!Belgian/French style: (skipping the classics like Tintin, Largo Winch, Schuitten etc.)
- Magasin Général: Québec, Canada in the 1920s, small village, very nice drawings and well made scenario.
- Bunker: Imaginary Sovietic kind of country in the Himalaya with old gods. Scary story.
- Sanctuaires: Same scary idea as in bunker, with an old god trapped for centuries and finally released.
- De cape et de crocs: imaginary world, theatrically described, inspired by Cyrano de Bergerac.
- All things from Marc-Antoine Matthieu, just pure nonsense, black and white, but damn it is good.
- Sentinelles: WWI at its best/worst, this one gives back to war what belongs to war: horror, fear, guts etc. Well made.
American:
- Alan Moore: V for vendetta, From Hell etc.
- The walking dead.
- Maus, Art Spiegelman… no need to introduce
- Will Eisner, disney drawings because he worked there, but some of his stuff his really good.
German:
- Gift, trial and decapitation of the last lady poisoner in Bremen in the 19th century. Really good!
- Haarmann, homosexual cannibal serial killer from Hanover in short in meat post WWI Germany. Give you the creeps!
- Die Sache mit Sorge, German spy in China and Japan for Stalin.
And of course: Japanese mangas:
- Nausicaa, Miyazaki Hayao (and all his animés from the famous studio Ghibli!!!!!).
- Taniguchi Jirô: Sommet des dieux and alll his stuff.
I forgot many I think but this post will still be there later on. Please give some advices for good stuff!
