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| #1 Posted 1 year ago | Reply | Most manga fans only read manga... and web comics.
What about western comics? DC, Vertigo, Marvel there are some insightful issues out there.
I will start by recommending the best of the best "Sandman" by Neil Gaimen; most people don’t realize he started out on comics.
And don’t give me flack for saying "comics" because they are.
So how bout it? Is there anything you would like to recommend?
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| #2 Posted 1 year ago | Reply | Promethia by Alan Moore.... actually anything by Alan Moore he kicks ass!
He studied religion for over a decade and it shows.
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| #3 Posted 1 year ago | Reply | Oh jeez, I'm a total utter comic book nerd XD
first I would probably suggest the X-men series (because I was obsessed with that before even knowing what manga was) although theres plenty of universes and eras to choose from.
'Squee's Wonderful Big Giant Book of Unspeakable Horrors' by Jhonen Vasquez is pretty good too if you like dark hurmor and don't mind gore... or swearing... or many other things ^_^' |
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| #4 Posted 1 year ago | Reply | Don't forget the comic Squee spawned from: Johnny The Homicidal Maniac (also by Jhonen Vasquez).
A friend recently recommended a comic to me that sounded interesting, though I haven't been able to investigate it yet: Scud the Disposable Assassin (Rob Schrab).
Since you already know about Sandman, I would suggest V for Vendetta (Alan Moore). Tought provoking stuff. My only complain would be that the character models tend to blend into each other and make distinguishing people difficult. |
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| #5 Posted 1 year ago | Reply | Ummmm.........
I would like to suggest....
Mary-Jane/Spider-Man Loves Mary-Jane series....
Don't Look At me!
<runs off> |
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| #6 Posted 1 year ago | Reply | I suggest any of the Marvel "Ultimate" series, which rock my socks, and the series PS239. XD It's super cool. Think of kids with super powers...in grade school.
The film Sky High is like a high school version of it, however I assure all that PS239 came out way beforehand.
>^_^<
MEOW! |
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| #7 Posted 1 year ago | Reply | The Walking Dead
Cable and Deadpool
30 Days Of Night
Spider-Girl
Ultimate Marvel series.....Its good because its relatively new and has reboots for Characters with decades of back story. Start with the Ultimates then go Spider-man,Fantastic 4,and last with X-Men.
Loki by Esad Ribic
Silver Surfer:Requiem
Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment
The Immortal Iron Fist
Moonknight's newest series
The Hood
100 Bullets |
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| #8 Posted 1 year ago | Reply | My choice cuts:
V for Vendetta or Watchmen
Early Stan Lee and John Romita Spider-man
Chris Claremont's first run on the X men, Dark Phoenix et al.
The Transformers Unicron saga by Simon Furman, Geoff Senior and Andrew Wildman. |
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| #9 Posted 1 year ago | Reply | From what I've heard, most stuff from Neil Gaimen is awesome. Like with the new movie Stardust out, I kind of want to read it.
OEL manga is mostly Western. |
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| #10 Posted 1 year ago | Reply | | One of my favorite old reads of good western comics has to be Jack Kirby's Fourth World. The King himself left marvel in 1970 to work on his masterpiece in DC. He started with Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen, to introduce bits and pieces of his world and continued on from there, creating 3 original comics to which he was drawing and writing four comics at once. Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #133-148, The Forever People 1-11, New Gods 1-11, and Mister Miracle 1-18. It was regrettibly canceled, not everyone got it, but he added 72 pages during the reprint of the New Gods into 6 large comics in 1984, then finished it with The Hunger Dogs, though dc kept using the chars afterwards. They've started to collecting it into 4 Omnibus books, the first one is already out, and awesome. Beautiful art from the man who worked on Spider-man, the Fantastic Four, and Captain Marvel and a well written story. I reccomend it. |
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| #11 Posted 1 year ago | Reply | | The Itsy Bitsy Spider went up the water spout. Down came the rain and washed the spider out. Out came the sun and dried up all the rain and the Itsy Bitsy Spider whent up the spout again. lol +_+ |
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| #12 Posted 1 year ago | Reply | Peter Parker was pitiful
Couldn't have been any shyer
Mary Jane still wouldn't notice him
Even if his hair was on fire
But then one day he went to that science lab
That mutated spider came down
Oh, and now Peter crawls over everyone's walls
And he's swingin' all over town
La li la, li de da
La la, li le la da dum
Sling us a web, you're the Spider-Man
Sling us a web tonight
'Cause we're all in the mood for a hero now
And there's evil doers to fight
Now Harry the rich kid's a friend of his
Who horns in on Mary Jane
But to his great surprise it seems she prefers guys
Who can kiss upside down in the rain
"With great power comes great responsibility"
That's the catch phrase of old Uncle Ben
If you missed it, don't worry, they'll say the line
Again and again and again
Oh, la la la, di de da
La la, di di da da dom
Now Norman's a billionare scientist
Who never had time for his son
But then something went screw and before you knew he
Was trying to kill everyone
And he's ridin' around on that glider thing
And he's throwin' that weird pumpkin bomb
Yes, he's wearin' that dumb Power Rangers mask
But he's scarier without it on
Sling us a web, you're the Spider-Man
Sling us a web tonight
'Cause you're brave and you're strong and so limber now
But where'd you come up with those tights?
It's a pretty sad day at the funeral
Norman Osborn has bitten the dust
And I heard Harry's said he wants Spider-Man dead
Aw, but his buddy Pete he can trust
Oh, and M.J. is all hot for Peter now
Aw, but Peter, he just shuts her down
Mary Jane, don't you cry, you can give it a try
Again when the sequal comes 'round
Oh, la la la, di de da
La la, di di da da dum
Sling us a web, you're the Spider-Man
Sling us a web tonight
'Cause we all sure could use us a hero now
And we think that you'll do all right
ALL CREDIT GOES TO WEIRD AL!!! |
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| #13 Posted 1 year ago | Reply | | Add the new Thunderbolts series,Nova,Annihilation:Conquest:Star Lord,The Original Annihilation series and all its Tie ins. |
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| #14 Posted 1 year ago | Reply | A friend recently recommended a comic to me that sounded interesting, though I haven't been able to investigate it yet: Scud the Disposable Assassin (Rob Schrab).
Is that still going? I remember hearing about it years and years ago and it looked pretty good but I never got round to checking it out.
I'll through Preacher into the ring here. It's superbly written and the mix of comedy, action, love and every other type of writing thrown in is spot on.
Also the two Batman: Hush graphic novels are pretty good.
Already been mentioned but I'll put in one that always seem to be left out when Alan Moore is mentioned and that's his run on Swamp Thing, which completely changes the character and is just an amazing overall.
Finally a more serious one - Maus. It's a true story about World War 2 which the author wrote from interviews with his father but the characters are all drawn as animals (mice and cats mainly) and despite what it sounds like it is a really moving story and deals with both Spiegelman's realtionship with his father as well as his father's story of WW2. He also did a comic called In The Shadow of No Towers which is about 9/11 which I've not read yet and was originally supposed to be published in The New York Times but got pulled because of some of the criticisms it made of the US government at the time. It's a huge book. |
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| #15 Posted 1 year ago, in reply to post #14 by DrunkenPrayer | Reply | | Well, its available in graphic novel form now, so its quite possible that its not going any more. But I couldn't say for certain. |
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| #16 Posted 1 year ago | Reply | | The only comics that ive really bought is Kabuki the alchemy by David Mack. But that was 3 years ago, so i don't know if you could find it now. Its so amazing. |
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| #17 Posted 6 months ago | Reply | I agree that anything by Allen Moore is awesome.
Batman: the Long Halloween is good.
Hellboy is a good comic, especially the art. I also enjoy the myths involved too.
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| #18 Posted 6 months ago | Reply | I would reccomend:
Nextwave by Warren Ellis
Sandman by Neil Gaiman
The first three volumes of Runaways by Brian K. Vaughan and Joss Whedon
Fables by Bill Willingham
Hellboy by Mike Mignola
The first volume of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore, and only the first volume
I think the current run on Actions Comics by Geoff Johns has been pretty good
So has Paul Dini's Detective Comics run, so I would reccomend that also. |
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| #19 Posted 5 months ago | Reply | Ed Brubaker's run on Captain America is very good also very epic, every story arc has built on the other
Alex Ross' Marvels Great look back the history of the marvel U with out all that sliding timeline stuff
Captain Britain and MI 13 which has just started seems nice if you are tired of the Avengers books where no one trusts each other. |
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| #20 Posted 5 months ago, in reply to post #1 by meitle | Reply | I like how you emphasized the "good" in your title...what, is it that hard to find good ones?
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Eh, crap, I realized I'm talking to a "dead" user. |
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| #21 Posted 3 months ago | Reply | | Definetly the Green Lantern:Sinestro Corp War and Infinite Crisis |
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| #22 Posted 2 months ago | Reply | The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Runaways
..........that's all I've come across that struck me as interesting. I'd like to get a hold of I Am Legend though. |
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