Re: Give me good comics to read!
Hey wasn't there a comic book thread ... last year or something :lol: I remember recommending a few.
[URL="http://www.comicvine.com/100-bullets/49-6306/"]100 Bullets[/URL]
[URL="http://www.comicvine.com/y-the-last-man/49-9419/"]Y - The Last Man[/URL]
[URL="http://www.comicvine.com/chew/49-26611/"]Chew[/URL]
[URL="http://www.comicvine.com/fables/49-9723/"]Fables[/URL]
Locke & Key
Preacher
Sandman
Lucifer
Joker
Yes to all of them.
Anything by [B]Neil Gaiman[/B] and [B]Dave Mckean[/B] really, including Violent Cases, Signal To Noise.
Dave Mckean also did his own series called Cages though I never finished it.
[B]Grant Morrison[/B]'s Arkarm Asylum is pits Batman against the madhouse but it's not your usual superhero vs villains action. The story is an exploration into madness, not just in its patients, but in the asymlum's history, and Batman's own madness:
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Dave Mckean provides the art, together this graphic novel set the tone for the Dark Knight. I read this about 20 years ago and it's still the definitive comic to me.
Check out other Grant Morrison stuff like [B]The Invisibles[/B] and [B]All-Star Superman[/B].
The current storyline for [B]Superman starting with issue 701[/B] is going to be an important arc for the character: He does a Forrest Gump and walks the earth, visiting the small towns and people to reconnect himself with his adopted home again.
[B]Ex Machina[/B] (who also wrote Y) is right up your alley. It's a superhero who can talk to machines, deciding he can do more good as the mayor of New York, and later forced to don his tights again. The series just ended at 50:
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[B]AIR[/B] is an interesting exploration of symbols and semantics in the form of an air stewardess with a phobia for flying, and an Aztec flying engine that doesn't require fuel, mixed with some international espionage. Very unfortunately just ended at 24.
So these are easy for you to catch up on.
[B]
The Walking Dead[/B] is a must, an exploration of human psychology/group behaviour when the rules no longer apply:
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[B]The Unwritten[/B] is by Mike Carey (became a fan after reading his Lucifer), a story about the power of words, literature as a map, and a protagonist whose really a Harry Potter character in a story, made flesh.
Will add more when I remember.