Graphic Novels

[Ghoul Hunter]

Anyone here a fan of graphic novels? I personally love them. Yesterday I picked up the original History of Violence GP, and it's been great so far.

[REINER]

I'm a fan of Sin City and certain Batman graphic novels.

[(LOKI)]

mainly Punisher for me

[Badmoon]

Road to Perdition
V for Vendetta
Sin City

Good GP's.

[HazMan]

They are making one based on Stephen Kings the dark tower i hear.

[Ghoul Hunter]

That would be a great one.

[Gnarmageddon]

Akira.

Or that might be a manga. Whatever.

[thedeadwalk!]

Sin City is a great noir story and has very fitting art for it.

V for Vendetta is a great story with a cool protagonist.

The Walking Dead is probably the greatest zombie tale ever. It goes further into details than most zombie-related stories but is very enthralling.

There's so many good ones (but I'm mostly doing comics that have TPBs as well):

Watchmen
Preacher
The Punisher
Astro City

[REINER]

I've been meaning to check out V for Vendetta mainly because when I first heard about the story it sounded cool, and the movie looks cool even though I'm sure it'll butcher the graphic novel as do most movie translations.

[Junooni]

One of my favorites is the Curious George series.
Such suspense..what is that man in the yellow hat's name?

[EightMilesHigh]

I've been meaning to get into some for a while. I'm going to go my local library tomorrow to see if maybe they have some back issues of The Punisher or Batman or Sin City if I'm reaaaaally lucky.

[Ghoul Hunter]

I've been meaning to check out V for Vendetta mainly because when I first heard about the story it sounded cool, and the movie looks cool even though I'm sure it'll butcher the graphic novel as do most movie translations.
I may pick that up, but I really don't like the artist's style.

[Noyana]

Akira.

Or that might be a manga. Whatever.

The movie was decent as i remember.

[burning star IV]

I like the Coheed and Cambria graphic novels.

[bradc1988]

I love to read, but I have never read a GN. I only heard about GNs after I saw Sin City, which was a great movie.

Anyone want to recommend one that I should read? I don't want to read any of the Sin City ones because I'd rather watch them.

[thedeadwalk!]

I can't believe I forgot Kingdom Come. Alex Ross is an amazing artist and is with a lot of great titles, most chiefly among them his Earth/Universe/Paradise-X series which was fantastic, and shouldn't be missed.

[Spider's_Thrash]

fans of hunter s thompson should check out transmetropolitan.


or anything by warren ellis.

[DeludedSpoons]

watchmen is the closest thing to 'real' novels that comics have ever come close to;

http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html

though it did feature quite alot of prose, between the chapters.

I personally prefer V for Vendetta, hence the avatar

[Ghoul Hunter]

fans of hunter s thompson should check out transmetropolitan.

What's it about? I love Thompson.

[REINER]

I'm going to read the graphic novel Mouse, I think that's what it's called, for my english class.

[thedeadwalk!]

I'm going to read the graphic novel Mouse, I think that's what it's called, for my english class.
Maus.

It's the German one, right?

[REINER]

No idea, my teacher just said the next book we're reading is a graphic novel named and then I think he said the word mouse but I'm not sure if I heard him correctly.

[thedeadwalk!]

If it's what I'm thinking of:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679406417/sr=8-3/qid=1141075791/ref=pd_bbs_3/002-9790424-2406440?%5Fencoding=UTF8

[Chrysostom]

Graphic novels, comics, it's all enjoyable stuff.

[Crapdragoon]

Ive got spawn issues 1 - 22 in a milk crate in my closet , i wonder if there worth anything but then i remember that they are only 13 years old or so :/

[Hunted By a Freak]

My Collection:

Watchmen
V For Vendetta
Preacher Vol 1,2
Y: The Last Man Vol 1
Sin City: The Hard Goodbye
Ronin
The Leauge of Extraordinary Gentleman Vol 1,2
The Dark Knight Returns
The Dark Knight Strikes Back
Batman: The Long Halloween
Marvel: 1602
The Punisher: Welcome Back, Frank

along with about 1000 comics in storage boxes, very old to old ones, mostly Marvel and DC

A lot of these are just buying the TPB's of series I have already read and want to own

I also really need to own a copy of 300

[Hunted By a Freak]

Oh yeah, Maus I and II are great

Did a book report on them in 7th grade

[Ghoul Hunter]

Ive got spawn issues 1 - 22 in a milk crate in my closet , i wonder if there worth anything but then i remember that they are only 13 years old or so :/
I'd buy.

[Crapdragoon]

I'm not selling :p

[Phalanx]

There's a graphic novel i've got called "A Contract with God". Thought it was really good

[Hep Kat]

Yeah, all kinds.


From Marvel to manga.

[REINER]

If it's what I'm thinking of:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679406417/sr=8-3/qid=1141075791/ref=pd_bbs_3/002-9790424-2406440?%5Fencoding=UTF8
Yeah I think that's it.

[Robert Crumb]

watchmen is the closest thing to 'real' novels that comics have ever come close to

I'd disagree. Or at least to the extent that a lot of other comics have reached the same stature of respect as art. But Watchmen is great and all that.

The last thing I read was David Boring by Daniel Clowes. It was appropriately kinda boring, slightly kinky but mostly ok. As always when one of these threads pop up, I recommend Neil Gaiman's Sandman series. It's available in easily consumable TPB collections of each story arc. Yay.

[EightMilesHigh]

K, so I found some old Batman comics at my library today. Very cool stuff.

[Mr. Ron]

I used to read Spawn but got out of it since it didn't interest me anymore. Last ones I read were Battle royal.

[thedeadwalk!]

watchmen is the closest thing to 'real' novels that comics have ever come close to;
What's your point and what's it have to do with enjoying graphic novels?

[Danish]

My favourite is Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World.