Topic: Favourite 'graphic novels' etc. (Read 11356 times)

KharBevNor · « **on:** 06 Jul 2006, 11:55 »

1. Akira
2. Watchmen
3. The Crow
4. V For Vendetta
5. Maus

GO!

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #1 on:** 06 Jul 2006, 12:17 »

1. Watchmen
2. Sandman:The Dream Hunters
3. Sin City:The Hard Goodbye
4. Sin City:A Dame To Kill For
5. I need to read some more Sin City yarns.

Weird: I was just about to make a "Watchmen" thread.

thehoopiestfrood · « **Reply #2 on:** 06 Jul 2006, 13:10 »

Would "Wolves in the Walls" count? 'Cos it's awesome.

Ravenbomb · « **Reply #3 on:** 06 Jul 2006, 20:20 »

Uzumaki, Sandman, Fruits Basket, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City: The Hard Goodbye

Johnny C · « **Reply #4 on:** 06 Jul 2006, 20:30 »

Moonshadow, I think it was called.

Chesire Cat · « **Reply #5 on:** 06 Jul 2006, 21:26 »

Marvels by Kurt Busiek. Seriously, set during the '50s era Marvel years from the perspective of a regular man, sounds lame but packs a punch. Pretty great reading.
*edit*
My respectively tiny description really didnt carry the weight this one deserves. Marvels is the best far and away graphic novel I've very read, and I have read alot in my day.

Kingdom Come was also really good. Set in the DC universe, in an alternate future blah blah. It has the Justice League types hitting retirement and newage superheroes with a broken moral compass doing the saving. The Justice League types get drawn into a huge moral battle between Superman's lead by moral superiority, and Batman's, people are essentially evil and you have to be something even scarier than them to win.

Astro City also by Kurt Busiek. Basically a fictional world full of workman super hero and villian types. It does alot to show what getting old does to super heroes and widen the gap between world class or even city class and more pathetic neihbourhood watch types. my favourite would have to be Astro City Vol 4: Tarnished Angel. It might be the 4th in the series but it really felt the most real.

Theres plenty more greats but its been a while since I've really read any graphic novels and forget which ones were great, and everyone else are covering the Sandman/Sin City/Watchmen angle, so I'll let you guys cover that. And of course there are always the fun but limited ones like Transmetropolitan, or that entire Batman series where there was a giant earthquake in Gotham and Batman was splitsville and all kinds of factions started carving out their own little niche in gotham like a game of Risk.

IronOxide · « **Reply #6 on:** 06 Jul 2006, 22:51 »

I don't know how many times I've said it, but I will continue forever.

Ruroni Kenshin bitches.

greenMonkey · « **Reply #7 on:** 06 Jul 2006, 22:53 »

Quote from: ironoxide887

I don't know how many times I've said it, but I will continue forever.

Ruroni Kenshin bitches.

Mad samurai manga FTW. But I prefer Blade of the Immortal.

StupidityKills · « **Reply #8 on:** 06 Jul 2006, 23:49 »

As before and always:
Transmetropolitan, Preacher, Dan Clowes and Jeffrey Brown

KharBevNor · « **Reply #9 on:** 06 Jul 2006, 23:55 »

Has anyone else who still draws breath actually read The Crow graphic novel? It owns the film. Over-stylised artwork and gratuitous quotation of Joy Division lyrics ftw.

Chesire Cat · « **Reply #10 on:** 07 Jul 2006, 00:01 »

Quote from: StupidityKills

...Preacher...

Theres a goodie a forgot about.

Rizzo · « **Reply #11 on:** 07 Jul 2006, 02:29 »

Transmetropolitan FUCK THE WORLD.
Watchmen
The Ultimates
Ultimate X-men(Maybe a comic rather than graphic novel)
Hellblazer

Those are all I can think of right now.
Transmet is definately my all time favourite. Closely followed by Hellblazer and then The Ultimates. I think I prefer my graphic novels raw and human.

hoax · « **Reply #12 on:** 07 Jul 2006, 14:06 »

I'm reading a good one by Allison Bechdel, called Fun Home.

It's a non-fiction bildungsroman about her family's funeral home, her father's ity and her own coming out story. Good read.

schimmy · « **Reply #13 on:** 07 Jul 2006, 14:28 »

I'm slowly working my way through the Battle Royale series, I'm up to 12 so far, but I think it peaked at 9 and 10. It's still really good though.
The first graphic novel I read was Watchmen, so that's got a soft spot in my heart, but the Sin City series is really good too, and so is Maus. 300 by Frank Miller is too short, but it's a damned good read, and has great art, so I think it's one of the best I've read. The Essential Punisher is probably the one I've read the most times, though, as it's just insanely fun to read. V for Vendetta was really good the first read though, but by the 3rd time, it can be rather annoying. It's fun to pick up every couple of months and read in one sitting, which means it's above average, I suppose.

I'm not much of an authority on graphic novels though, I've only been reading them for a year or two, so I've not read that many yet.

Kaktion · « **Reply #14 on:** 07 Jul 2006, 17:14 »

I'm not going into manga, because I usually forget the plot after I read a new chapter.

Sandman, Transmetropolitan, Watchmen, Sin City, Dark Knight Returns, V for Vendetta, the Killing Joke...eh, and there are dozens of others I forgot to mention. I'm not too great at picking favorites.

Edit: Dear God, I didn't put Fables up here? I shame myself. By the way, anyone read Jack of Fables yet?

Stranger Dan · « **Reply #15 on:** 07 Jul 2006, 20:18 »

Owly by Andy Runton
Bone One Volume Edition
Creature Tech by Doug TeNapel
Flight 1 & 2
Plastic Man: On the Lam by Kyle Baker
Fables by Bill Willingham
WE3 by Grant Morrison
Seven Soldiers of Victory by Grant Morrison
Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar
Green Arrow/Green Lantern by Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams
Green Arrow vol. 4: Archer's Quest by Brad Meltzer

Chesire Cat · « **Reply #16 on:** 07 Jul 2006, 20:53 »

Quote from: Stranger Dan

Fables by Bill Willingham

Thumbs up my friend.

SeanBateman · « **Reply #17 on:** 09 Jul 2006, 13:32 »

Stranger Dan is awesome.

Praeserpium Machinarum · « **Reply #18 on:** 09 Jul 2006, 18:05 »

1. Blacksad Vol. 3: Red Soul by Juan Diaz Canales(writing) and Juanjo Guarnido(drawing, painting)
2. Blacksad Vol. 2: Arctic Nation
3. Blacksad Vol. 1: A Place in the Dark
4. Sin City Book 1: The Hard Goodbye by Frank Miller
5. Battle Angel Alita(the original series, not the new stuff) by Yukito Kishiro
Probably Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins if I had got a chance to read it. The movie based on it is a masterpiece, that's for sure.

Not to say that I know anything whatsoever about graphic novels, so some of this might actually be comics.
Blacksad is hardboiled film noir where all the characters are animals thus John Blacksad, the main character, is a cat. It has plenty of sex and violence and nazi minks e.g. Arctic Nation is an organisation who advocates white supremacy thus all the animals are white, the leader is an polar bear and so on. I really like it and they have improved it over time as you see on my list.
Akira 1 or V for Vendetta didn't do anything for me and neither did 1602 or Sandman 1.

Houdinimachine · « **Reply #19 on:** 09 Jul 2006, 19:17 »

Brian Wood - Couscous Express
Alex Robinson - Box Office Poison
Jason - Hey Wait... (Saddest fucking graphic novel ever. Made me cry like for an hour)
Judd Winnick - Pedro and Me (Saddest fucking graphic biography ever. Made me cry for 3 hours.)

redbeardjim · « **Reply #20 on:** 09 Jul 2006, 19:48 »

Bone, y'all.

"Stupid, stupid rat creatures!"

KharBevNor · « **Reply #21 on:** 09 Jul 2006, 19:54 »

I re-read V For Vendetta recently, and am wondering if it should not swap places with The Crow or even Watchmen in my list. Apart from Maus, it's the only graphic novel to make me cry consistently, and the artwork is better than Watchmen, but Watchmen probably has a better plot (though it's all rather relative) taking into account all the comic within a comic stuff and whatnot. All Moore's stuff is categorically genius though.

Also, shit.

SHIT.

If I'm going to do a top five, I've gotta boot off Maus because I somehow forgot about The Ballad of Halo Jones. Now that is what I call awesome. It does feel kinda fanboyish having three Alan Moores in my top five though...okay ten.

1. Akira
2. Watchmen
3. V For Vendetta
4. The Crow
5. Maus
6. The Ballad of Halo Jones
7. Hellsing
8. The Invisibles
9. Ghost in the Shell
10. Luther Arkwright

Gryff · « **Reply #22 on:** 09 Jul 2006, 20:21 »

I'm going by "graphic novels" meaning one-off stuff like Watchmen etc, not X-men or ongoing comics and things.

I'm going to have to say that Daniel Clowes is my favourite graphic novel author. 'David Boring' is such a mundane, curious, beautiful story. I love it. 'Ghost World' is much better than the film, too (although the film is still quite good). Yeah.

Lise · « **Reply #23 on:** 11 Jul 2006, 19:58 »

Hm, the only "Indie" graphics novels I own were given as gifts from friends or in Cody's books comic shelves http://www.codysbooks.com.

My favorites (in no particular order):

1) Blankets by Craig Thompson
2) Goodbye Chunky Rice (same author)
3) Flight Comics Vol. 1 (haven't read the 2nd or 3rd)
4) The Nine http://www.whoarethenine.com
5) Runaways by Marvel

P.S. I know this isn't a graphic novel, but Twisted Toyfare was just hilarious. Robot Chicken was based off of that series.

ruyi · « **Reply #24 on:** 11 Jul 2006, 22:51 »

daniel clowes is good! bone is good! blankets is good! i have heard flight 1&2 were good as well!

more:
'persepolis: the story of a childhood' by marjane satrapi (i bet her other one is good too, just haven't read it yet)
'mail-order bride' by mark kalesniko
'same different and other stories' by kirk kim - first graphic novel i read. you can actually read most of it online here.
'preacher gone to texas'...i think it was called. something i read in the library. it was good, ridiculous, violence-and-sex-filled fun.
'optic nerve', series by adrian tomine. i really love this. has been compared to clowes work.

Jayfarer · « **Reply #25 on:** 12 Jul 2006, 02:28 »

Watchmen, Batman: Year One and We3.

Lummer · « **Reply #26 on:** 12 Jul 2006, 04:30 »

Quote from: Johnny C

Moonshadow, I think it was called.

Oh fuck yeah! That was truly amazing. I need to read it again.

other favorites would be Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, Steve Niles & Ben Templesmith's vampire stories, Watchmen and From Hell.

Alchemist · « **Reply #27 on:** 14 Jul 2006, 07:21 »

To avoid the innumerable references to the works of Gaiman and Moore (of which I consider myself a huge fan), I will instead direct the reader's attention to Blankets. A coming-of-age story set against a background of strict Christian upbringing as well as a story of neo-adolescent love. Very beautifully written, with characters that stay with you for months.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #28 on:** 14 Jul 2006, 17:38 »

Kingdom Come, Marvels, and Wolf and Cub

Jyan · « **Reply #29 on:** 16 Jul 2006, 23:43 »

Well, some of these are series more than actual graphic novels, but:

1. Watchmen
2. Kingdom Come
3. Sandman
4. Fables
5. Mr. Punch

Churba · « **Reply #30 on:** 17 Jul 2006, 08:17 »

I'm rather addicted to V for Vendetta and OverRev at the moment

Napoleon · « **Reply #31 on:** 06 Aug 2006, 08:24 »

batman: year one.
watchmen
godspeed.

Electric Monk · « **Reply #32 on:** 06 Aug 2006, 15:37 »

Watchmen, Planetary, Kingdom Come, Sandman, Usagi Yojimbo, Astro City, Understanding Comics, Books of Magic, The Ultimates.

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