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Yesevil

Yesevil

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Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone can recommend any of these graphic novels for me to try next

Injection
Transmetropolitan
Outcast
Postal
Whytches
The Boys
Crossed
New Avengers
100 Bullets


I started dabbling in graphic around 6 months ago and so far have read the first volumes of the following:

Preacher
Trees
Sandman

I will be continuing with these but also fancy something new, I'm leaning towards The Boys at the moment.

Also if anyone can point me in the direction of some good online resources for comics and graphic novels i'd be very grateful.
 
Of all the comic adaptions in recent years, The Boys needs one the most, a nice gritty Netflix adaption with all the sex and violence added in :D

It's brilliant, managed to pick it all up in a humble bundle for like $10 last year, would have happily paid 4 times the price having read it all.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Ijust looked at The Boys and the Harcover TPB are like £80 each. Ouch!!!! You would need like £500 to get them all.
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I'm all digital these days since getting a tablet just over a year ago. Get some cracking deals on comixology/humble bundle and the space saving is a bonus. My "The Boys" entire collection was about a tenner with loads of other dynamite titles included. - http://www.comicsbeat.com/135846/

Humble Bundle currently have a massive Image bundle for about £16, so much included it's unreal.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/image-comics-book-bundle
 
Thanks for the suggestions guys.

I ordered The Boys Vol 1, Transmetropolitan Vol 1 and Injection Vol 1.

Also got lent Batman The Dark Knight Returns by a friend today which I'm looking forward to as I've been enjoying The New 52 Batman novels
 
I dunno I just prefer Hardcover Trade copies.

Like Y the Last Man. You get all the comics in 4-5 hardcovers.

With digital copies if you were to get hit by a bus they are lost forever. Hardcovers can be read by anyone and sold on, etc. Or even passed on to your kids, etc.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
I dunno I just prefer Hardcover Trade copies.

Like Y the Last Man. You get all the comics in 4-5 hardcovers.

With digital copies if you were to get hit by a bus they are lost forever. Hardcovers can be read by anyone and sold on, etc. Or even passed on to your kids, etc.
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It's only in the last year i've gone digital after 25+ years of having physical copies of everything.

It's basically space saving and convenience, plus digital copies can be bought at a fraction of the price of physical copies so I get to read a lot more.

I've got backups of everything on external hard drive and also on my tablets SD card, so apart from a catastrophic data loss, i'll always have them. I've also sold on digital copies of issues included in humble bundles I won't read.
 
The Humble Bundle is great value. Already have some of them Chew, East of West, Prophet, Descender and Outcast but there's lots on there that I've considered trying out.

Low and Tokyo Ghost are good reads too.
 
Personally I found Boys to be a brilliant 6 book series that got dragged out to 12 books - to be fair, that's often the case with Garth Ennis' work

If you like it, you might want to try Marshal Law, which did that sort of story some years before; there's a lovely deluxe edition hardback with most of the stories in (licensing prevents a few from appearing)

Transmetropolitan and 100 Bullets are fantastic - you might also want to look at Y the Last Man, Fables and Sandman - they've all been collected into some kind of nice deluxe edition.

Authority and Planetary are both really great more-adult takes on superhero JLA/Avengers type squads. If nothing else, you owe it to yourself to read the Batman/Planetary crossover

Image Comics have some really interesting stuff out at the minute - the humble bundle SixTwoSix suggested is brilliant value to get a taster of that. I'm reading Paper Girls, Morning Glories, Saga and AD: After Death atm and have a load of others sat on the pile waiting to be read.

Locke and Key is a great series by Joe Hill, Stephen King's son. It's as weird/horrible as you might expect from that :D

Let me know how stuff grabs you as you read it and I'll dig through my archive and suggest some more ;)
 
Sandman ( sets the bar imho, Deep, immersive and sublime)
Transmetroplitan ( Spider is an amazing study in righteous anger)
100 bullets
DMZ ( New York becomes a DMZ)
Dark knight returns ( just in case you never read it)
Crossed ( is really dark and horrorifying and messed up in a good way)
All star superman( just amazing imho)
The invisibles ( think every conspiracy theory, aliens, mystical assassins, Buddha and the Marquis de Sade)
We3 ( weaponised pets )


Image comics for me have some great story writing and shine through as their stories are not the Atypical superhero stuff.
Prophet ( image comics doing what it does really well)

Anything drawn by Frank Quietly and written by Grant Morrison is worth a gander.
Johnathan Hickman run on Fantastic 4 is amazing story telling
 
EddScott said:
I like Saga although when I first starting reading it, I'd just broke up with a girl who was very similar to Alana - hot, a bit mental, but without the wings. :)
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Ha! I need to pop into my local comic shop and get volumes 4/5/6 sometime this week for holiday reading
 
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