The Azzarello/Bermejo Joker graphic novel that came out last year was pretty good too.

I'll have to post some more recommendations a little later.

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I only have about 10 or so. I don't read comics with much regularity, but I still get a kick out of the artwork.

One thing I really dig is Alex Ross' Mythology book. Even though its not a graphic novel, it deals with drawing techniques and has a plethora of sketches and drafts for some cool stuff.

his work on Marvels and Kingdom come are incredible

Bermejo is awesome. My fave :

ed brubaker

especially Sleeper. sean phillips does the art.

best 24 issues of anything i've ever read. Well maybe Watchmen beats it.

The mystery element to the whole thing is great, plot twists aplenty. pretty fucked up on the whole, really fucked up superpowered characters everywhere. i'd love to have some money so i could read the newer series' that that team has put out.




found that on wiki. that could be amazing.

who ever found and merged, danke

I found...don't know who merged.

i bought Green Lantern First flight collectors edition


varies from the GL lantern in the Comic books but man does it work

Yeah, I watched that last night. I thought it was pretty good. Sinestro was badass...

if anyone is looking at final crisis to buy, dont. i have never been really impressed with morrison to say the least, his stint on new xmen was at best ok in my book. had some good thoughts but the verbage fell short to me.

but final crisis is just fucking everywhere. really horrible read. i like events that dont really need you to buy every single tie in to understand. Marvels Secret Invasion, you could easily follow if you didnt buy the tie in's. Final Crisis, i doubt even with the tie in's youll be able to follow it.

I really hate the term "graphic novel"

Thanks guys for keeping it real

brubaker´s run on batman was great, i might pick this up

i have heard nothing but praise over his run of captain america. he supposedly does very well with the spy/espinoge/war angles

His Captain America run just might be my favorite run of any creator on any book ever.

im very old school of sorts, i really love claremont and byrne on xmen

peter david on xfactor

peter david on hulk with dale keown

geoff johns and van sciver on green lantern as a more recent

and i know people didnt like it too much, but i thought copiel and bendis on house of M was very good too

I'm a huge fan of John Byrne's Fantastic Four.

I have the first 6 (the trade with those six). Very good, but I haven't ever read anything Cap America, only know a bit about him, so I didn't know a lot of the characters very well and therefore wasn't as engaged. However, his Batman (and subsequent Detective Comics) run is probably my favorite on any Batman book, and it was what got me into comics in the first place (picked up 591 at Kroger one day on impulse, and by the next couple issues I was picking up older Batman comics, acclaimed TPBs, even some of the crossover that started going on at the time [Our Worlds at War? that sort of sounds right]). Though Alan Grant has done some stuff that rivals it, on a consistent basis.

I think I had a few Clarmemont books at one point. Way too much omniscient narration for me. A little bit is ok, or a long dialogue inside the head of a main character can be good, but long omniscient narration just bores me in a comic.

On a side note, picked up 15 comics for 5 bucks at the flea market the other day. Most in good shape. Read a Deadshot miniseries from 1988 which was pretty good, and a 2-parter by John Wagner from Batman 477-478, which was good as well. I love a lot of those little 2 or 3 issue standalone stories, provided they're interesting. Although the mid-90s hit a lull on that front with how much Chuck Dixon wrote. I think the rest of the issues are Knightfall or Knightquest.