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QC Fans - Graphic Novel Recommendations
Shteevie:
I'll reply here so that the reply can stay with the thread if/when it is moved.
Terry Moore's Strangers In Paradise is very engrossing, and is a story in some ways similar to QC. Specifically, it's a whole lot of stuff going on around, about, because of, and in reaction to the relationship events in the lives of a small group of very interesting people.
Of course, Sandman, Top Ten, Miracle Man, and Lone Wolf and Cub are all automatic suggestions for graphic novels. SiP happens to be the closest to QC that I would recommend.
JD:
Black Hole by Charles Burns.
Includes teenagers growing up in the 70s and a horrible virus that turns people into monsters.
The Seldom Killer:
Maus by Art Spiegelman is probably the most important graphic novel to read. It geniunely strikes at the heart of just how much can be portrayed with such simplicity. I realise that it's tremendously cliched to suggest it, but its one of those things that bears repeating.
Other novels to get my vote are:
Exit Wounds - Ruta Modan
Kick Ass - Mark Millar (better than the film in so many ways)
Air - G Willow Wilson
Palestine - Joe Sacco
Watchmen - Alan Moore
Elephantmen - Richard Starkings
Strangehaven - Gary Spencer Millidge (warning, despite several years of promising to finish the series, GSM remains resolutely slack in his endeavours)
Anything by Brian Wood, he can do no wrong.
I think that each of those suggestions offers something unique and brilliant to graphic novels and all should in some sense stand the tests of time and criticism. Certainly the storytelling is always compellingly brilliant. Should I add Y: The Last Man to the list? It's hard to say, I loved it but find it hard to reccomend.
JD:
Eh I found Kick Ass pretty lame regardless.
Odin:
Red Son is pretty much one of the best Elseworlds graphic novels, ever (What if Superman's rocket landed in the rural USSR instead of the rural US?!).
Kingdom Come and "Marvel Universe vs. The Punisher" (the one where Frank is trying to survive a zombie apocalypse) are pretty good, too.
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