Comic Books and Graphic Novels

[VivisQueen]

By popular demand. Since so many of you were too lazy to actually do it:

This is the place to discuss comic books, graphic novels, serials, all that stuff, recommend each other great stories, and link to great deals you find online.

So. I just finished Watchmen, and I'd like to get more into the medium. Like anime, I'm thinking I have a whole new world of great original storytelling to discover. I've read Preacher, some Y The Last Man, quite a lot of X-Men, a couple of Batman, Spiderman, Superman, and one The Punisher novel (which was HILARIOUS!). Favourites so far include:

Preacher
Arkham Asylum

I'm looking for stuff with more gripping drama and less sex/violence, like Y The Last Man. And surely there must be non-sci-fi stuff that's an absolute must to check out. Incidentally, if anyone knows any good comics about Gambit (X-Men), please let me know. My library is at my disposal. BEGIN!

[r-18]

queenie i was not too lazy i just feel funny hijacking my own threads ......so thank you for this magnificent effort and all the obtuse mileage that i will no doubt derive from it.

[gin]

and once again, read sandman.



just look how awesome dream looks

and heres his sister, death



or just check out the wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman_(Vertigo)


other than that, 300 was entertaining, so was the league of extraordinary gentlemen. but of course, neither of those can keep up with the awesomeness that is sandman and watchmen. the only other comics i know that play in that league are from hell and v for vendetta as well as maus, a survivors tale

persepolis was also quite interesting. and if you like satire and dont tire of reading too much, try out cerebus

in my younger years i greatly enjoyed the adventures of asterix and tintin, spirou and fantasio, gaston, le petit spirou and probably lots of other stuff i simply forgot with the passage of time...

[drakenfyre75]

I agree with the Sandman ones, I have 6 of the books, still tying to get the rest of then right now

[KiraRin]

I got the first few of the Sandman books for my birthday, and still haven't picked them up yet. Also, I would be pushing Watchmen right about now, but seems like I jumped on the bandwagon a little late ;p

H.

[valondar]

Anyone like The Nikopol Trilogy?

That's the only graphic novel I've read in aeons so it's my only frame of reference. Pretty fun stuff! The movie sucked but I liked that quite a bit. Very French, pretentious cyberpunk about sex, chess-boxing, Monopoly-playing Egyptian gods and a corrupt dictatorship of fascists who wear clownish makeup also a one-legged Baudelaire quoting astronaut and his identical son (he was frozen in space for a long time because he was a deserter).

...IT'S LESS STRANGE THAN IT SOUNDS?

[gin]

that nikopol trilogy sounds quite awesome...i think i gonna get me that one, that sounds exactly like my line of interest.

and afaik its pretty difficult to get ahold of the complete sandman chronicles. at least in german and for my friend it was.

[VivisQueen]

I'll be leaping on that Sandman (<--- lol, I nearly typed 'Sandbar') bandwagon next. CMC also recommended that to me. Just difficult to get hold of through my library. I need to take a few minutes at some point and order them.

[ForgottenSon]

I've not read many (Palestine, Neverwhere, Killing Joke and one a friend lent me about the Iraq war). I'm currently reading the best of American Splendor by Harvey Pekar, which, though amusing and touching in equal measure, is a bit patchy and repetitive.

Palestine is my favourite so far. I love Sacco's artwork:

[gin]

ah yeah, palestine. that one was interesting, aforementioned friend lent it to me. before travelling throughout north africa and trying to make something similar...
he came back with 3 slice of life kind of stories and one fable.

remember the joke about the secret police? mossad was it? beating the duck and telling it to be a bunny...

here i found a version with iraqi instead of mossad and mossad instead of kgb

An American CIA agent, an Israeli Mossad agent, and an Iraqi Mukhabarat agent are sitting in a bar. They start arguing over who is the best at intelligence, so they decide to have a contest: the first one to come back to the bar with a camel wins. The American rushes out, calls up the King's office, and says "King, I need a camel - now." Five minutes later, the King comes huffing and puffing up, delivering the camel personally. "Thanks, your Royalness. You can go back to the casino now." Grinning a cocky American grin, he saunters back to the bar with his camel... only to find the Israeli sitting in his chair, resting his feet on a camel. "Dang it!" curses the American. "How did you DO that?" Then the two sit back and wait for the Iraqi. Hours pass. Finally, they go out looking for him. They don't have to go far. He's in the back alley, torturing a rabbit and screaming "Say you're a camel! Say you're a camel!"