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#11135555 - 09/27/09 03:19 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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give me some greats. preferably comic series. also preferably not marvel/DC superheros.
i have so far read the watchmen, sandman, transmetropolitan (fucking loved it), zombieworld, some of fables, and am about 8 issues into 100 bullets.
if you have read 100 bullets, i'd totally recommend it. basic premise is someone has been severely wronged at some point in their life. after their life is ruined, they are approached by a man in a suit who offers them a briefcase filled with the evidence of who wronged them, along with an untraceable gun + 100 bullets, as well as a position above the law should they be inclined to carry out the vendetta. it's pulp in that every couple of issues it's a new story, a new person. and it's fucking awesome. download
offer up some recommendations.
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You could try the Invisibles by Grant Morrison. (Parts of which were shamelessly ripped off in the Matrix)
Also, very different but really good, the Nikopol trilogy by Enki Bilal. (I simply love Bilal's artwork.)
Both are infused with occult imagery (the first is soo'90s that it seems to come straight out of the pipe of Terence McKenna, the latter has Egyptian gods visiting Earth in a Pyramid like spaceship and Horus in a starring role.) Great fun if you're into that sort of thing.
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novumorganum
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just read everything by alan moore. after that read everything by gaiman.
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tiny_rabid_birds
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i've already done alan moore and neil gaiman. in fact, i've read all of gaiman's novels as well. i said in the OP i've read watchmen and sandman, though i could have also included league of extraordinary gentleman, from hell, some of swamp thing, neverwhere, stardust, endless nights, and probably various other works by those two.
i've read those guys' works plenty. i'm looking for something new.
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ok, i read your op, but only saw you mention watchmen...let me dig a bit
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tiny_rabid_birds
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btw. if you're a comic fan and haven't read 100 bullets, i highly recommend it. i'm at like issue 11 now. it's just getting better and better. the dload link i provided has a list of zip files containing 10 issues each. so you can just dload the first 10 to see if you dig it.
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I'm currently reading Sandman. My local library has them all! So I've just been checking them out one by one. I'm almost done. It is so drool worthy.
Muas by Spieglman is really good.
I'd also recommend The Walking Dead for great zombie fun. I've only read the first one of those though.
Anything by Frank Miller is worth a read. Check out The Dark Night Returns, and Year One for awesome Batman stuff. There's also 300 and Ronin as well as The Spirit and Sin City, but I haven't read either of those last two so I can't vouch for them.
I'd also read Bone by Jeff Smith if you've never done so. It's a great read. 
Also Scott Mccloud's Understanding Comics is good read too.
I'll check out 100 bullets
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tiny_rabid_birds
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i've read maus. as well as 300 and several of the sin city tales (before the movies too, so i wasn't quite so jaded going in). i feel like i may have started the dark night returns, but didn't finish it. during college, when i had a break between classes i would often get lunch and eat it in the book shop while reading graphic novels/comics. good times.
i think i've had enough of frank miller, though maybe i'll check out ronin anyways. the walking dead was actually already on my to-read list, as i just finished zombieworld and i can't enough me some zombs. i'll look into bone, see if i can find a dload for it. thanks.
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no prob.
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Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
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walking dead is WIN
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tiny_rabid_birds
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i'm really looking forward to reading that one. it sucks though, because i have to really be careful and limit the amount i dload. i'm pretty sure the net connection i'm using has like a 4gb/month limit. fucking absurdly low.
btw, for whoever is interested issues 1-63 of the walking dead on rapidshare
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V for Vendetta was always my fav graphic novel
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Re: comics/graphic novels [Re: twighead]
#11137001 - 09/27/09 11:16 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Infinity Gauntlet (Marvel, but very cool. Very trippy)
Preacher (Awesome story that's very blasphemous"
Unfortunately, there is no better series than Sandman.
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Re: comics/graphic novels [Re: twighead]
#11137015 - 09/27/09 11:19 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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tiny_rabid_birds
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Re: comics/graphic novels [Re: Rocker232]
#11137016 - 09/27/09 11:19 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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shit. i'm going to have to start writing this shit down and prioritizing them. if i could just stop reading them as fast as i'm dloading them, i should be able to get a nice little stash on my netbook, for those times when i have to sit and wait for a train or bus or whatever.
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All of the Conan comics are really good.
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Re: comics/graphic novels [Re: blewmeanie]
#11137128 - 09/27/09 11:42 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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if youve never checked out JTHM you should, my avatar is a piece of work taken from that comic
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As someone said above, Preacher is a classic
For a stranger graphic novel check out City of Glass, its based on the Paul Auster book and is excellent.
Starman (this version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starman_(Jack_Knight) ) is generally considered a great series and is highly ranked.
Y the Last Man is also up there ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_the_last_man )
And for the more serious (i.e less superhero fare) Time has its own list which is highly debatable Id say. However some of them on there are excellent
http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/0,24459,graphic_novels,00.html
If you want something much much weirder check out Tank Girl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_girl
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tiny_rabid_birds
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Re: comics/graphic novels [Re: Chespirito]
#11137509 - 09/27/09 01:01 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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those look like some promising recommendations. hell yeah.
and Y the last man is another series i forgot to list among my have-reads. i really enjoyed that one. in fact, it was one of the first that got me into comics. i started reading it just a few years back, right before the last few issues came out. love me some apocalyptic fiction.
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