Wait a sec, are we talking comics, comix, trades or graphic novels? Or all forms of the ‘comic’? I started a thread about comics about 6 months ago but it sunk pretty shitfast. I read Punisher (new series), Walking Dead (trades), Fear Agent and other assorted trades.
What’s your ‘main’ company? I’ve always been a sucker for Marvel.
I used to read Hellblazer when it first came out. I remember Dave McKean drew an issue which was phenomenal.
Used to read the JLA and JLE too, way back when it was funny.
Not read much Daredevil, but I did enjoy the Born Again storyline.
I read the first 1602 series. Meh, it was okay.
Preacher is great, but Sandman is a load of pretentious tosh.
I’ll read anything by Mike Mignola, Frank Miller, Barry Windsor Smith, Berni Wrightson, Richard Corben, Ross Andru and Dave Gibbons.
+1 on the Concrete comment.
Am I the only person who read all of Cerebus the Aardvark?
Yeah I intend to buy all the Hellblazer TPBs. I like the new Justice League of America. Though I would like it more if it had Plastic Man. Born Again was awesome. I’ve never heard of Cerebus The Aardvark though. Is it any good?
It’s very long!
When Dave Sim first started, it was a Conan parody, but after twenty or so issues it developed its own identity. That’s when Dave announced to the world that he intended to finish the story at issue 300 and the whole thing would be one continuous storyline. He wrote and drew the whole thing himself (with background assistance from his inker, Gerhard).
It took him about twenty years, but he finished it in the end.
The story became quite politically orientated and a little confusing in places, but it’s a good read.
I also recommend some old school masters.
Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon.
Any Frank Frazetta work (Thunda Tales is a corker).
George Herriman’s Krazy Kat and Ignatz.
And the Grandaddy of modern comics, Will Eisner’s the Spirit. If you can, try and get the old Kitchen Sink reprints from the 80’s as they come with several pages of text by Eisner describing his thought process and ideas. It’s like having a director’s commentary in a comic book.