MUST have multi-part GNs

[Gotham]

I'm in the mood to waste a crap ton of money on an epic GN series (Preacher etc). Give me your must-haves and reasons why I should drop 20 bones a book on them.

Go.


BTW. I'm a complete nab.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

The soon-to-be ending Y: The Last Man-- along with the aformentioned Preacher-- offers one of comics' great road trip/epic journey stories.

[Corrina]

The Starman trades.

All of them.

Great stories, great characters, really nice storytelling that ties the beginning up at the end.

I've got a few niggles but I really flat out love the series as a whole. One of the things it does is make secondary characters incredibly interesting. After seeing Robinson write Ralph & Sue & Black Condor and the new PHantom Lady, I'm soo disappointed at what Dc did to them.

[Gotham]

Man, I had Preacher Gone to Texas in my hands today and ended up getting Arkham Asylum 15th Year Anniversary book instead.


Dammit!

[jerrymcl89]

Sandman - still the best thing that's been done in the comics format, imo.
Planetary - great as both the surface story, and a meta-commentary on comics.
Fables - terrifc mix of myth, satire, and sentimentality
Starman - great use of DCU history that both respects the past and re-invents it.
Swamp Thing (the Alan Moore run).

[stealthwise]

First of all: What do you already own or have read?

Sandman, Starman, Transmetropolitan, Mark Waid's Flash, JMS's Spider-Man up to Happy Birthday (and NOT afterwards), Ennis's Punisher.

[JKCarrier]

Cerebus
Bone
A Distant Soil
Finder
Queen and Country
Love & Rockets
Age of Bronze
Kabuki
Madman
Nexus

[willtupper]

Dear Gotham,

First off, I'm a HUGE fan of your city. Great place. Nice people :).

Secondly, the graphic novel series you will be looking for is called "Scott Pilgrim." It is about a guy named Bryan Lee O'Malley, and his wacky wacky adventures with his monkey, who is named Ramona Quimby.

It is maybe the best graphic novels in the history of the world. And by "the world," I clearly mean, "On my bookshelf right now."

It also has lesbians. And ninjas. And killer fight scenes - and teenagers!

Please, please, please get it. Nothing makes me happier than knowing I've turned yet another person on to it's wonders.

Take Care, and congratulations on the new hairpiece (looks sweet!),

Will Tupper

[The Xenos]

Is it good or bad that I already own quite a number of the books mentioned?

Let's see. I can second a few.

Preacher. Finder. Planetary. Sandman. Kabuki. Transmetropolitan. Y the Last Man. Fables.

Finder is a interesting world. If you don't want to start from the beggining, Vol 3 Talisman stands pretty well by itself and is an amazing book about the love of books.

Kabuki is a fascinating and ofen experimental comic. The first couple are somewhat traditional comic art, but even there Mack plays with symbols, visuals, and storytelling.

Walking Dead is one that hasn't been mentioned. Interesting zombie drama that focuses on the humans that survive and how they function.

Most manga is multi volumed. I'd suggest Battle Angel Alita for a damn good cyberpunk fighting series. Berserk for a damn good though gory medevil war epic. *Though that one's at 20 volumes in the US and beyond 30 in Japan. So you'd be in it for along haul.) Death Note for a neat suspence and detective story that's like if Rod Serling and Alfred Hitchcock did manga. Planetes is an amazing hard sci fi story about space travel and the lives of space junk garbage men.

[Karen El]

Genshiken. It's a manga series from Tokyopop about a college manga/anime fanclub. Volume 9 was just published and it's the last one, so you can read the whole story. It's wonderfully unselfconscious about many fannish things, and shows real life changes amongst this group of people over several years.

It's also got fantastic art. I've never seen an artist who can fit in so much clutter and detail into a single picture and yet still have it completely focussed.

Girl Genius. Go look at http://www.girlgeniusonline.com to get a flavour of it and then go out and buy the collected volumes.

[Karen El]

Stupid message board telling me it hasn't posted when it has... *grumble*

[Night Swordsman]

I can recommend Planetary,Girl Genius,Starman and Astro City.

But i MOST recommend is Transmetropolitan. That book,along with Preacher,is how i survived the crap that was the late 90s

[Gotham]

Wow thanks! A lot of replies. Today was new book day so I went an bought what's on my pull list AND treated myself to Preacher #1 and Transmetropolitan.

You guys rock.

[Shisho]

If you're into manga, Blade of the Immortal is the only one I actively invest in. It's so awesome, it should have it's own catagory: "Manga that is awesome."

[Samurai]

The only non-manga GN I'm reading right now is Empowered (and it's a little bit manga too). Empowered is a lot of fun, especially the Cosmic Demonwolf trapped in containment device that has all kinds of great commentary on the events around him... especially the "hirsute jungle" of Emp's nether regions. Yeah, it's for adults, but man is it funny!

[Gotham]

If you're into manga, Blade of the Immortal is the only one I actively invest in. It's so awesome, it should have it's own catagory: "Manga that is awesome."

I already have those! SCORE!

[Samurai]

If you're into manga, Blade of the Immortal is the only one I actively invest in. It's so awesome, it should have it's own catagory: "Manga that is awesome."

I actually have the original Japanese volumes 1-9 of Blade of the Immortal that I brought back with me from Japan way back in 1998, so the series is old news to me! :)

[Alan Lynch]

I've long maintained that Akira is one of the finest pieces of fiction I've ever read. Expensive to get all 6 volumes, but totally worth it.

[MartinRedmond]

Invisibles - The TPBs reprinting volume 1
Stranger in Paradise - I Dream of You
Transmetropolitan - The first few trades, you can even quit at issue 12
Sin City - Any given trade
Lost at Sea

Kabuki is dull and aimless don't bother

There's no TPB series that's really worth reading in it's entirety.

[Grazzt]

Invisibles - The TPBs reprinting volume 1

Huh. I actually liked Volume 2 better. I've even seen people recommend that newbies to the series read Volume 2 first (trades 4, 5, and 6), then backtrack to Volume 1, then cap it off with Volume 3.