The Graphic Novels / Comic Books thread

Hillskill

Those Amazon recommendations are dangerous, as are the listomanias. Discovered loads of titles that I decided I "need" after reading those. Got Chew and Fables and W3S all sitting here ready to be read that all look well bizarre Looking forward to getting into them but struggling to find the time at the minute.

Theydon Bois

Fables is on my list to - heard it was supposed to be a Sandman type series? Let me know what you think of it mate.

Hillskill

Will do. Still working my through The Boys at the minute but its literally been a month since I sat down and read anything.

akane_1984

well completed my recent reads got instantly hooked on The Walking Dead both style of drawing and writing are superb can't wait to read the other volumes. Not sure though whether to watch the series as I read or watch the series after I have caught up on all volumes.

All-Star Superman was great though I may need to read it again to fully understand, it was a very character driven GN that focuses on Supermans connection to his adopted world, really enjoyed it and it. Finally Earth One lot of hype surrounded this GN and have to say felt bit underwhelmed this will fall into the elseworld category I would be keen to see if there will be any follow ups to this as there are some unanswered questions but it was still an enjoyable retelling of Superman Origins.

Hillskill

Can anyone recommend a nice point to jump in with Superman ? Quite fancy reading a bit of that but there is so much to choose from !

NewMan

I kind of agree, it was a bit lacking in my opinion, could have done with more story, more pages, more lots of things, but was still a good read nonetheless, and like you say, an enjoyable retelling of the Origin.

It's got an Elseworld feel to it, but apparently it's the start of a new line-up, along the lines of Marvel's "Ultimate" series of books - hopefully it'll become a full run series of books in the same vein. Earth One: Batman is due out next year, too...

Harj

Please do let us know what you think, I'm sure you'll find Mr Ennis living up to his reputation. There is also a Crossed "Family Values" series going on, and I've pre-ordered the first proper Crossed Graphic Novel in 3D!

hawky525

I've started ordering some of the X-Men comics, in reading order I've either ordered or purchased the following:

Dark Phoenix
X-Cutioners Song
Astonishing X-Men 1 & 2
House Of M
X-Men Deadly Genesis

and at some point will pick up:

Astonishing X-Men 3 & 4
X-Men: Messiah Complex
New X-Men 1, 2, 3 & 4
Ultimate X-Men Ultimate 1, 2, 3 & 4

As far as I can tell this is the correct reading order from the TPB reading list, can anyone see any that I will be reading out of order?

akane_1984

ordered volume 2 of Walking Dead today

jp_bl_68

I'm looking for some recommendations. I'm not interested in superheroes (that includes Batman). I'm after something that would appeal to adults. It can be dark, funny, violent, sexual, western (US, UK...), eastern (Japanese...), etc.. I'm rarely offended by anything. I'm not too bothered about genre either.

Read and liked:
Transmetropolitan
The Filth
Swamp Thing (Alan Moore)
Battle Royale
Sin City
Tintin

Read and didn't like/not interested in:
The Boys
Bullets
Fables
Y The Last Man
DMZ (this was OK, just not interesting enough to make me read them all)
Preacher
Hell Boy

Own/aware of but haven't read yet:
Watchmen
Uzumaki
The Walking Dead
We3


Any thoughts?