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mberan42:
I want to start reading some graphic novels, comic books, etc. I have a good idea of what I want to read, I just don't know where to start.

I'm interested in the post-apocalyptic / cyberpunk / barren future. I don't quite like the manga / anime-type art, (I realize I'm grossly stereotyping there - my apologies for my ignorance). I want to read dark, expansive, haunting (not scary haunting) stuff.

There's a great example that I have, but the link to the book doesn't exist anymore. If anyone bought Disposable Parts, compiled by Josh Mirman of Punks and Nerds, I'm talking about the comic Seven in there.

Anyways, if anyone has any recommendations, whether they're graphic novels, comic books or web comics, I'd appreciate them all.

Thanks.

Alarra:
Well, Sandman is the best I've read...period. So I'd start there.

Number_6:
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Sandman is certainly dark, expansive and haunting, though not post apocalyptic.

The spin-off comic 'Destiny: A chronicle of deaths fortold' is, though I didn't think it was that great. It's best if you read Sandman before that.

'Y: The last man' is sort of post-apocalyptic. All the males on the Earth have mysteriously died, leaving only escape artist Yorick Brown and his pet monkey Ampersand. They team up with a government black-ops agent and a cloning expert, travelling around the world trying to unravel the mystery of Yorick's survival. The dialog is extremely well written, but the whole story comes across as almost lighthearted in places. I wouldn't call it dark, expansive or haunting, though it is very entertaining (and not in the 'I'm the last man on Earth, I'm gonna bone every chick that comes my way' sense. There's actually very little of that).

'Fables' is good too. All the fairy-tale creatures have been hounded out of their realm by 'The Adversary', and try to make a living in New York city (none of us know that they're there). It's got the same fractured fairy-tale approach as Shrek did, only it's much more adult (Prince Charming is a chronic womanizer who's married and divorced Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and... shoot, I forget the last one).

'Ex Machina' is another one with excellent writing. Michael Hundred, a civil engineer gains super powers and becomes a hero named 'The Great Machine' in a world without super-heros. After a little while of that, he decides he could help more people by revealing his identity and becoming mayor of New York city. It mixes politics with science fiction very well.

Blue Kitty:
I say you can't go wrong reading V for Vendetta, which is still my most favorite graphic novels ever, besides Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Kingdom Come

dancarter:
Good choices all.  Here are some more:

The Brian Wood stuff:  Channel Zero & Channel Zero: Jennie One.  Near future look at Fascism in the U.S.
Transmetropolitan: Warren Ellis and Darrick Robertson.  Excellent.

and for the Post-apocalyptic in you:
Destiny: A Chronical of Deaths Foretold: Alisa Kwitney, Kent Williams, Michael Zulli, Scott Hampton and Rebecca Guay.  About Destiny's son through the ages, from Byzantine Empires through to the Future, and the destruction and plague that follow him.

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