Graphic novels/ comics
Does anyone read graphic novels wether its from Japan (manga) or China (manwa/ manhau) or just comics from America/ Europe?
List your favorites here...
I read mostly manga so most of my list is related to that.
1. Fake (hense my avatar and signature)
2. Tokyo Mew Mew!
3. Paradise Kiss
4. X Men (orginal)
5. The Crow
6. Uzamaki
7. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
8. Sailor Moon Stars
9. Mars
10. Clover
And I have plenty of others.
Whats yours?
Hey, I pretty much like all of the comics/graphic novels out there. 📖 If I can get into the story, and if I like the art. If the art turns me off, I'll immediately put the comic/novel down.
My favorites are:
1. All X-Men
2. Cowboy Bebop
3. Superboy
4. Batman
5. Young Justice
That's just some of them, if I named them all. I'd never leave this place. 😉
American Comics:
Sandman (completed)--a classic of the genre
Lucifer (completed)--nearly omnipotent sociopaths are sexy
Hellblazer (ongoing)--Constantine is basically a nicer Lucifer with less power to back him up.
Fables (ongoing?)--just generally good
And two miniseries: Sebastion O and Enigma
All of those are from DC's Vertigo imprint, which has turned out some garbage (Codename: Knockout? What the hell?), but is pretty damn conisistant, in my opinion.
In mainstream DC, there's ... I don't know, actually. Impulse and Superboy were awsome, but DC cancelled those titles, killed Superboy, and messed up Impulse. Batman's cool, but a lot of his comic arcs suck, so it's sort of a crap-shoot.
In Europe, there's Judge Dredd. Judge Dredd is awsome; it's a crying shame that so few of his books are available in the USA. I import them, but shipping fees are a harsh mistress.
Meanwhile, in Japan...
Samurai Deeper Kyo. I don't care how ludacrous it is, I love it. I love the protagonists. All of them. Usually, I really like one or two of the main characters in a manga, and tolerate the rest, but in SDK, they all kick ass. The whole series is great, absurd fun.
Detective Conan. I'm actually not thrilled by the gimick, but the mysteries are great, it's well-written... VIZ, an inferior publishing company, messed around with the characters' names, but I forgive them.
All of Junji Ito's stuff. Uzumakie, Tomie, his short stories. Well, not Gyo.
Off in ... Korea, maybe? ... Priest also kicks ass. The title character sold his soul for the power to fight evil; it's sort of Berserk-esque.
Everybody recommends Watchmen, but it has boring panel layouts. It probably seems like a minor complaint, but I think it drags the book down. Someday, I'll rally and finish the damn thing.
I have been reading comics since I was a kid, and one of the best days of my life was when I found out that a graphic novel had "won a Hugo Award, and is also appears on Time Magazine's 2005 list of "the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.""
A couple of my most recent additions to my collection:
We3 - a three-issue American comic book mini-series by writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely, who describe its kinetic style as "Western Manga". It was published in 2004 by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics, with a trade paperback released in 2005.
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - a Batman comic book miniseries written and drawn by Frank Miller and published by DC Comics from February to June 1986. It reintroduced Batman to the general public as the psychologically dark character of his original 1930s conception, and helped to usher in an era of "grim and gritty" superheroes from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s.