Vox Hunt: Comical

May 29, 2007 at 10:52 PM
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Book: Show us a great comic book.

*sigh* As so often before, I don't know if I can or would want to pick just one. There are so many great comics out there--why limit yourself? This does need a limit, though, so let's say 5. I like 5. I know De La Soul said 3 is the magic number, but I like 5.

Watchmen

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue (A Contract With God, A Life Force, Dropsie Av

Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show

And yeah, yeah V for Vendetta, Sin City, The Killing Joke, Love and Rockets by Los Bros Hernandez, and so on and so forth. I love comics. If you're one of these people who believes comics are for kids, I beg of you--try them. That last one, though, isn't for the faint of heart; Suehiro Maruo is one disturbed man.

Oh, and I said 5, right? That's because for me this next one is the Mother Superior of them all, but it's a sort of meta-comic. For anyone interested in the genre, though, highly recommended.

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Scott McCloud

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okay. it wasn't in that damnable amazon search engine (fecking monopolies) but check out Chris Ware's The Adventures of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth. You won't regret it.

That's odd that it wasn't in there. I have read it, though, and you're right--love it. I like Chris Ware a lot. Hmm....and Jimmy Corrigan does seem right up your alley.

okay. it was sort of in there. just not the exact right copy. and i wanted the exact right copy, because, well i haven't read the other copies and can't vouch for them. and because I read this exact copy after reading a Smetanka review in the Independent, and i didn't want to do him a disservice by passing on faulty info. or something.

Well, it's certainly understandable. I love that boy Smetanka.

No Marvel? ;o

i read miller's dark night when it came out in the 80s. i was never a comic book nut, but i really, really liked that series. for the first time in my comic reading experience a super hero wasn't entirely super. he had demons and doubts and his heroic efforts weren't entirely pure. he was flawed in other words. it's the same reason hard boiled crime/noir appeals to me. cause life, even a super hero's life, aint all black and white. it seems a super hero should have super demons, and when his muscles are sore, they should be super sore.

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