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Your favorite Graphic Novels

Miles_Urbanus [Team Member]

5/26/2012 9:22:29 AM

For those of us that kan't reed so gude. Ahh one of my greatest victories was in 3rd grade when I was told to put away the comic book to which I retorted it isn't a comic book, it is a graphic novel (It was either Tin Tin or Astreix IIRC).

Rebel by Pepe Moreno
1980's style punk rebels take on the totalitarian Sanitation Police in post apocalyptic NYC.

Crecy by Warner Ellis
English longbowmen at the Battle of Crecy.

macman37 [Team Member]

5/26/2012 9:35:26 AM

Soooooo many great options.

One that immediately comes to mind is Batman: Killing joke.

Impeccable art, excellent writing. Perfect.

ultramagbrion [Team Member]

5/26/2012 9:51:14 AM

echo_5 [Team Member]

5/26/2012 9:54:36 AM

Robotech.

Because I was a huge fan of the show as a kid.

Scott_In_OKC [Team Member]

5/26/2012 9:56:49 AM

Originally Posted By macman37:
Soooooo many great options.

One that immediately comes to mind is Batman: Killing joke.

Impeccable art, excellent writing. Perfect.

Batman agrees

I can neither confirm or deny that this scene is permanently preserved on my body.

mcantu [Member]

5/26/2012 10:17:09 AM

snakes19 [Team Member]

5/26/2012 10:27:14 AM

I don't no if this counts as a graphic novel or not since it was a standard monthly comic but done as a set number of issues but it is probably the best comic ever written.

runcible [Team Member]

5/26/2012 10:32:17 AM

WyattEarp [Life Member]

5/26/2012 10:32:24 AM

j191482 [Team Member]

5/26/2012 10:37:44 AM

This book started it all for me, so I guess this is my choice for best.

Currently reading this. Even next to my leather-bound Sandman books, this is probably the most beautiful graphic novel book i've ever seen.

Sirveaux [Member]

5/26/2012 10:43:58 AM

Actually, A Dame to Kill For, but I don't know if the cover for it pushes COC.

Gthirteen [Team Member]

5/26/2012 10:48:13 AM

Originally Posted By j191482:
This book started it all for me, so I guess this is my choice for best.

http://graphicnovelreporter.com/sites/default/files/darkknightreturns.jpg

First DC anything that I read. WOW.

Watchment was next, for me.

MarkMustang [Team Member]

5/26/2012 10:52:17 AM

Identity Crisis is pretty good.

bcw107 [Team Member]

5/26/2012 10:54:52 AM

The Dark Knight Returns. When it was released I'm not even sure there was such a thing as a "graphic novel".

Veracity [Team Member]

5/26/2012 10:56:03 AM

Originally Posted By WyattEarp:
http://i3.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/lens17760638_1300558676walking_dead_comic_book_1

This right here.

Wasz [Member]

5/26/2012 11:07:13 AM

RikWriter [Team Member]

5/26/2012 11:15:58 AM

The Dark Knight Returns, The Golden Age, Marvels and Predator: Concrete Jungle.

zaskar017 [Team Member]

5/26/2012 11:17:41 AM

Originally Posted By runcible:
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z316/runcible22/Preacher-1.jpg

Is that Michael Keaton?

Dredd308 [Team Member]

5/26/2012 11:18:36 AM

Originally Posted By mcantu:
http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/isbnthumbs/156/389/1563892278.jpg

So much THIS!

Neil Gaiman rocks.

Moose [Team Member]

5/26/2012 11:45:10 AM

Originally Posted By bcw107:
The Dark Knight Returns. When it was released I'm not even sure there was such a thing as a "graphic novel".

My favorite as well.

The first "graphic novel" I remember reading was The Death of Captain Marvel in the early 80s.

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j191482 [Team Member]

5/29/2012 6:41:33 PM

bump for more suggestions

wingnutx [Team Member]

5/29/2012 6:50:08 PM

The GIRL GENIUS collections, which you can also just read as a free serial on the web.

MadMardigan [Team Member]

5/29/2012 6:54:58 PM

Any of Frank Millers work.

The Walking Dead

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DK-Prof [Moderator]

5/29/2012 7:00:16 PM

Originally Posted By wingnutx:
The GIRL GENIUS collections, which you can also just read as a free serial on the web.

http://airshipstore.com/images/products/detail/tor_omni01_large.jpg

I really like Girl Genius!

My favorite graphic novels are
Valérian and Laureline - a science fiction series of graphic novels WAY ahead of its time.

and Alix - a series of graphic novels about a young man's adventures during the early days of the Roman Principate.

and of course, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - a four-book series (in the final omnibus form) that is phenomenal

JeffTheOtherDude [Team Member]

5/29/2012 7:16:49 PM

wingnutx [Team Member]

5/29/2012 7:33:19 PM

Any of the Druuna books.

NSFW

runcible [Team Member]

5/29/2012 7:35:57 PM

Originally Posted By JeffTheOtherDude:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_h5Z3zckwPmk/Suef0vCz8bI/AAAAAAAAAH8/4_4s7ascCXc/s400/TheThing_GraphicNovel.jpg

Awesome story, great artwork.

togadelic [Member]

5/29/2012 8:17:48 PM

does anyone remember one set in a supernatural hell type place where a card themed guy deals with flying boats with hitler's souls and stuff like that?

Makarov92 [Team Member]

5/29/2012 8:22:37 PM

And all of Doug Tennapels' work

ETA: Fuck Garth Ennis, Alen Moore, and Brian Wood

Reinhaard1 [Team Member]

5/29/2012 8:23:42 PM

garwj [Team Member]

5/29/2012 8:28:58 PM

So Beautiful and So Dangerous

KampusKop [Team Member]

5/29/2012 8:31:18 PM

Soon to be, Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 9.

It will be released in July and I have it pre-ordered on Amazon.

Yes....

It is written, in part , by Joss Wheadon.

http://www.amazon.com/Buffy-Vampire-Slayer-Season-Volume/dp/1595829229/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338337884&sr=8-1

JTHM242 [Team Member]

5/29/2012 8:43:11 PM

Transmetropolitan....
Some days I think we really need Spider and his filthy assistants.

Spearweasel [Team Member]

5/29/2012 8:56:58 PM

"Artesia" by Mark Smylie. It stalled a few years back, but it's some good fantasy.

therex [Team Member]

5/29/2012 9:12:41 PM

Kitulu [Team Member]

5/29/2012 9:15:56 PM

Firefly: Those Left Behind.

DrewN [Team Member]

5/29/2012 9:16:59 PM

http://clzimages.com/comic/large/9f/9f_42270_0_FirstComicsGraphicNovel8Teenag.jpg

tmleadr03 [Team Member]

5/29/2012 9:22:54 PM

Originally Posted By DrewN:

http://clzimages.com/comic/large/9f/9f_42270_0_FirstComicsGraphicNovel8Teenag.jpg

I have those.

Badger66 [Team Member]

5/29/2012 9:27:31 PM

Charlie's War a WWI story Here

BigeasySnow [Team Member]

5/29/2012 9:36:43 PM

wingnutx [Team Member]

5/29/2012 9:39:16 PM

Originally Posted By BigeasySnow:
http://geek-news.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/slaine20bisley1.jpg

Wow, that really jogged my memory.

JTHM242 [Team Member]

5/29/2012 9:39:41 PM

Originally Posted By BigeasySnow:
http://geek-news.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/slaine20bisley1.jpg

Funny I somehow pictured you as a Swamp Thing kinda girl, that or Sucker Punch.... Alan Moore is a genius, he brought depth and story telling to a new level in an unlikely medium. to a very

Ohio_Bill [Team Member]

5/29/2012 9:40:06 PM

JTHM242 [Team Member]

5/29/2012 9:42:17 PM

Originally Posted By Ohio_Bill:
http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=40338

My GF just got me a signed anniversary edition of Maus and Meta Maus. They're just... awesome.

TkFF [Team Member]

5/29/2012 9:49:42 PM

Hard Boiled.

Slavac [Team Member]

5/29/2012 9:59:03 PM

Originally Posted By snakes19:
I don't no if this counts as a graphic novel or not since it was a standard monthly comic but done as a set number of issues but it is probably the best comic ever written.

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/y-the-last-man/23-1.jpg

Easily one of the best.

96Ag [Team Member]

5/29/2012 10:02:30 PM

Originally Posted By DrewN:

http://clzimages.com/comic/large/9f/9f_42270_0_FirstComicsGraphicNovel8Teenag.jpg

First one I ever read in junior high.

My favorite was The Crow by J.O. Barr.

BigeasySnow [Team Member]

5/29/2012 10:03:22 PM

As a little kid: