seeing as its just been payday :D
I already have and/or recently liked:
- Alan Moore stuff (Watchmen/From Hell etc etc)
- Preacher
- Promethea
- Walking Dead
- We3
I'm thinking maybe some more Grant Morrison stuff - has anyone got any recommendations?
Thank you :)
The only comic I'm a fan of is Sandman
If you don't have any of them, get one. Either start from the begining or get 'Season of Mists' or 'Brief Lives'
^Get 'em all
Neil Gaiman rules the books with drawings scene. And his death is a foxy Goth.
I have them all!
But 11 (12 with you include 'The Dream Hunters') arcs may need to be spread over several paydays!
Fables
Y: The Last Man
DMZ
Ex Machina
I can't vouch for this
but my friend is obsessed by a manga called 'Berserk' at the moment.
If you can get hold of some old Zenith stuff on ebay then DO IT!
I am planning to buy a new scanner so I can get all my old Zenith stuff out of my 2000ADs. I don't have Phase IV, though, maybe not even all of Phase III :(
Zenith is pretty much amazing. The BBC should make a proper Sci-Fi series from it.
Err of course: Zenith is by Grant Morrison
Everything
by Grant Morrison is ace, but particularly you must buy Doom Patrol (good), Animal Man (very good), The Invisibles (possibly the best thing ever), and The Filth (which is nearly as good as The Invisibles but shorter and therefore cheaper).
If, like me, you are gay for Grant Morrison, you might also like to watch this talk of his at a Disinfo conference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdlVyAC55g4
Also
get the Marvel Zombie thing and then give it to me
I decided to get (against the advice of some people here, sorry)
Animal Man vol 1 and Morrison's Arkham Asylum.
Thank you for the recommendations though, I'll definitely be looking into them for future purchases :)
If
you don't get Maus I'll kill you.
Also get :
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
I can't afford Maus
it's fucking expensive.
I'll ask for it for my birthday, don't worry :)
I've already got Understanding Comics, it's great!
Maus
isn't that great. S'alright, but not superb.
Epileptic by David B is good. And Ghost World, too.
I would highly, HIGHLY suggest Fables though.
Ghost World's rubbish compared to David Boring
now that's a great comic.
David Boring's on my wish list
for pay day. Alot of the Daniel Clowes stuff is
Me too
I've been meaning to explore a lot of his other stuff for a while now.
Let me know if you get anything and have any recommendations :)
definitely
get like a velvet glove cast in iron, it is excellent.
david boring's
rubbish compared to like a velvet glove cast in iron.
not sure if I agree
I found David Boring quite moving... Velvet Glove is great but I don't think the story is as well crafted.
The Ghost World original is fantastic too. I loved the film beforehand, I think both work very well on their own and don't spoil the other.
Neil Gaiman
Almost anything by this chap is glorious. Also, Jeph Loeb and Time Sale are a delicious collaboration - they've done Long Halloween (Batman)
Yea, i just find writers/artists that i like, commit their names to memory, and buy.
Apart from Stardust
which, although not a comic, was one of the worst things I've had the misfortune to read.
Stardust isn't that bad!
Just a bit of a departure from his other stuff. Besides, I have the illustrated edition, signed and made out to me and so it is automatically one of my most favourite things ever
The graphic novel version or illustrated with text?
I honestly thought that it was one of the worst-written, clichéd, patronising things that I've ever read. I couldn't believe it was done by the same guy who'd produced American Gods and that Sandman series :(
Erm, the semantics of what a graphic novel is
confuse me! Its the form Stardust was originally released in; clumps of prose with either small drawings or full pages drawn by Charles Vess. The artwork is absolutely gorgeous.
I can see what you mean about it being clichéd, but I thought that was sort of the point. It was supposed to be a typical, traditional fairy tale. It wasn't quite as patronising and black-and-white as the film adaptation anyway!
Although it is my least favourite Gaiman venture
the Beowulf movie aside perhaps.
By graphic novel I meant "comic book"
althought that version may have only been released to coincide with the film. Yours is like the storybook, I'm guessing.
I'm slightly embarrassed to say that I quite enjoyed the Beowulf film, did you see it in 3-D?
Yeah
In all honesty, I didn't mind the storyline. Sure it ventures from the convnetional story of Beowulf, but seeing as it was originally written in a dialect it seems only the author spoke fluently, that doesn't really matter. I quite liked the emphasis on the legend being more important than the truth too.
I just thought it looked horrible. None of the characters had any facial expressions or apparent emotions at all. Some of the scenes (particularly the fight with Grendel in the great hall) were almost farcical too.
Didn't know there was a Stardust comic book? Youmight want to steer clear of the Neverwhere comic, its been adapted and isn't all that great
^ This is what happens when I have an excuse to talk Gaiman!
I can see what you mean
but I guess that's analogous to wooden perfomances that you probably would've got with a live action adaptation of the story.
I thought the fight against the dragon in 3-D was an amazing bit of cinema though, I think I forgot to breathe through most of it :D
ANGRY YOUTH COMIX!!!
^ this!
incredible stuff. johnny ryan ftw
these two:
1. Transmetropolitan (a sci-fi hunter s thompson anecdote)
2.The Walking Dead (best zombie comic book ever)
Walking Dead is awesome
Any idea on when Vol 8 is going to be released? I've had it on order from Amazon for months now :(
amazon's release date of January was bunk
i don't think it's even all been released as singles yet.
:'(
i know. I KNOW!
the cliffhanger at the end of book 7 is so.. OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD.
it doesn't help that mega city comics in camden keep putting the single issues in the window, so all i have to go on are the cover images and that ISN'T HELPFULLLLl.
Transmetropolitan is ace
As is a lot of Warren Ellis' work, Planetary is especially good.
Also check out http://www.freakangels.com/?p=23
Phonogram, Rue Britannia...
I just purchased.
It's about music and the britpop years, as this bloke decsends slightly into madness 10 years down the line.
Good from the first few pages Ive read.
i recommend
The Exterminators (killer cockroaches!)
Savage (only one book for the foreseeable future as well)
Nikolai Dante (swashbuckler caught up in a horrific 27th century war)
another mention for Phonogram, it's ace.
and, as i always say this, LAZARUS CHURCHYARD. it was Warren Ellis' first published work, it's all collected in one volume from Image, and it's fantastic. really bleak, cynical, and funny, and with a totally heartbreaking ending.
OH
also: "Fell" by Warren Ellis. art is by Ben Temple-Smith (30 days of night) and it's like a noir crime thing set in a 'feral city'. only one book so far but it's verrrr good. i love warren ellis.
Marvel Civil war
best series ever.
See, i'm interested in several of these suggestions BUT
where do you get graph novels relatively cheaply?
Amazon marketplace has some great prices but the standard £2.75 p+p racks it up, oftentimes twofold. And eBay involves arduous bidding.
Suggestions?
The Book Depository (www.bookdepository.co.uk) is fairly good
Other than that, I generally go to the local comic shop...
i just use amazon
or forbidden planet. i suppose it depends on what you consider 'cheap', i don't really consider £7-9 an unfair price.
Grant Morrison
is my favourite.
I'd go for Animal Man (I see you did, good choice), The Invisibles and the Filth.
The Invisibles is his masterpiece and my favourite bit of comic ever but it is several volumes long. Also the Filth covers similar ground but is collected in but a single volume.
Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar stories!
They're incredible. He's like the Gabriel Garcia Marquez of comics.
The stories cover several generations of life in a small south american town, with loads of amazing characters and magical realist goings on.
I think you can get them all in one book but its probably kinda expensive but the first volume is 'the Heartbreak Soup Stories' it's like 7 quid on amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Rockets-Heartbreak-Soup-v/dp/1845765214/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207049630&sr=8-1
jimmy corrigan:
smartest kid in the universe is really fucking depressing but so so beautiful...
for something a bit funnier i used to like the johnny the homicidal maniac comics.
maus is not that expensive is it? i might have a copy somewhere...both 1 and 2.
^^yes
Jimmy Corrigan is a FANTASTIC book. Definate recommendation if you haven't read it
I'm enjoying Scott Pilgrim
by Bryan Lee O'Malley. It's kind of like the OC :)
...
I don't doubt both of these have been mentioned already (because they're awesome), but:
- Transmetropolitan: A violent, drug-crazed Hunter S Thompson takeoff attempts to fight his way out of a corrupt dystopia using only the power of his words, his very attractive 'filthy' assistants and a bowel disruptor - which does what it says on the tin. Best dialogue I've seen in any comic.
- Nikolai Dante: Think Flashman with ultraviolence. The gentleman thief romps his way across 26th century Russia having his way with beautiful women and then stealing their jewellry. Then finds himself in the middle of a war. Carries on as usual. Sometimes affecting, frequently hilarious, Nikolai Dante is Stealthy's recommendation of the week!
have you got the new Dante book yet?
mine is being held up at amazon by the errant Walking Dead collection.
...
The very newest? I ordered it back in February. I assumed I haven't received it yet because it's not technically out. Though I think I saw an e-mail the other day that said they'd dispatched it.
love and rockets
human diastrophism
is amazing
I recommend
The Other Side by Jason Aaron. Only 5 issues or collected in a book. Taken from the same source material that Kubrick used for Full Metal Jacket.