Just read Maus (damn) and was wondering about other high quality graphic novels. I’ve heard good things about Watchmen so I might read that next. I’m open to comics, manga -Berserk is good, right? - anything that has pictures and text.
Be prepared to get real deep into Hellboy. I completely forgot about the years where Hellboy quit and the title became BPRD for a bit.
Also The Incal is very weird. Beautiful art, but otherwise extremely Jodorowski.
I got into chainsaw man's manga after all the hype and that's been fun
Also, yeah, berserk is a masterpiece of awesomeness and horror to the millionth degree
berserk is good but there should be a really big trigger warning there is sexual violence that happens on it, but i also think that it is one of the greatest works of fiction to ever be made, i think it is fascinating that people who haven't read berserk tend to have a really incorrect view of it, like berserk is violent and gory but that is like not the point it is about people and trauma and a lot of the greatness of it comes not when guts is just destroying some goblins or something but on the introspective talks he has sometimes, when he is forced to not be the war machine the world has made him, anyway main point being: readberserk.com/
and about being BI, depending on how you understand the golden age arc THERE IS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE IN HERE
It's about what happens when big hunks choose an Action Woman over a silver twink
Highly recommend The Walking Dead. Don't be put off by the stumblings of the show, the comic is so much more put-together. Only stumbling point is the visual quality takes a brief dip when they switched artists after #6, but it's like 200 issues long so it's not that bad in the grand scheme of things.
If you're into superheros I can also recommend Invincible, also written by Robert Kirkman. The earlier issues show their age ("gay" being used pejoratively being the most noticable) but things get pretty profound for capeshit, with a lot of interrogation of the individualist folly of superheros as a concept. Can also recommend the TV adaptation on Amazon Prime. It deviates from the source material in ways good and bad but it's faithful where it counts and the VAs do a great job.
Yeah the graphic novel series is pretty based
If you haven't read it, in the final arcs their society is basically doing primitive communism without saying so literally.
Ya I was pogging up. Shame that
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They ended up resurrecting america in the end. Sure you need something to rally around but cmon
Berserk has some of the most beautiful pencil drawings imaginable of the most awful stuff you can find. Highly recommended.
Che: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson (Author) and José Hernández (Illustrator) is a decent, well made comic.
Second for sandman.
Have you seen the show yet? I’m kinda nervous except Gaiman worked on it apparently.
It's significantly better than I thought it would be, but holy smokes does the first novel not hold up to the later. It's just a mcguffin chase for half of the season.
That said, they do neatly merge the first two books and the actor who plays The Corinthian pretty much nails the part. Not in love with Brienne of Tarth as Satan, but that's more about how dumb I think the battle mechanics always were.
Overall, a good watch. Season 2 should be miles better though
Hell yeah, finally found a plug today so this is perfect timing. Gonna get baked and enjoy some surreal.
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East of West by Jonathan Hickman/Nick Dragotta
Mao's granddaughter is leader of the communist states of America and has a baby with Death. As in one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, Death. Also Anton LeVey's relative is the leader of the remnants of the regular USA. Also, formerly enslaved people control all the oil, and the most advanced technological empire in the world belongs to the indigenous people of the upper Midwest.
Saga by Brian K Vaughn and Fiona Staples
Really cute story of raising a family set admit the backdrop of a galactic war. Stunning art.
Lazarus by Greg Rucka/Michael Lark
Future neo-feudal corporate dystopia will cool, genetically engineered assassins.
Warren Ellis is generally good, although has terminal lib brain. The Invisibles by Grant Morrison is cool, too, had one of the earliest poaitive representations of trans women in comics (the writer is non-binary, themselves) and also where the Wachowskis stole like 80% The Matrix from.
East of West was so goddamn good. I read the whole thing at work this year.
Yeah my job is great there are gigantic stretches of downtime so I read. Some friends of mine on the shift play MTG during the lulls.
I like Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and Scud the Disposable Assassin by Rob Schrab.
I recently ordered Berserk Deluxe volumes during Black Friday. I read a good chunk when I was younger but never finished. I can’t really say what the themes are, but there’s a lot of blood, guts, and boobs
