August 30, 2008

• For anybody out there wanting to get into graphic novels, I thought I'd blog up a list of recommended titles to check out. The main majority of these books can be read in it's entirety through one collected edition, but there are titles that are only available through multiple volumes. Hyperlinks go mostly to amazon.com, where you can read the readers' comments for impressions. If not amazon.com, some of the links will take you to the wikipedia page, while others will take you to the reviews I myself wrote up in this blog. This reminds me, that I need to try and do reviews for all these titles as time rolls by.

  Bringing intriguing drama to the superhero world
  - Watchmen
  - Marvels
  - Kingdom Come
  - Identity Crisis
  - The Ultimates
  - The Ultimates 2

  Tales that reflect humanity, society, and culture
  - Pride of Baghdad
  - Death : The High Cost Living
  - Ultra, Seven Days

  - Shortcomings
  - Silver Surfer : Requiem
  - Locas : The Maggie and Hopey stories (Love & Rockets)

  - Ex-Machina
  - Girls
  - Stray Bullets

  epic, dramatic, and fascinating series I highly recommend
  - The Sandman
  - Lucifer
  - Y : The Last Man
  - The Walking Dead

  The essential Batman books to read
  - Batman : Year One
  - The Dark Knight Returns
  - The Long Halloween
  - Dark Victory
  - The Killing Joke
  - Arkham Asylum

  reimagined origin stories of established super heroes, done right

  - Daredevil : The Man Without Fear

  - Superman Birthright
  - Ultimate Spider-man

  ...and just to throw it in here, three of my favorite manga series...
  - Maison Ikkoku
  - Video Girl Ai
  - I''s

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