Good Graphic Novels?

[glowbelly]

listen to rongi, go with preacher. also sandman by neil gaiman is wonderful. pm protoclown. that's where i get all my suggestions and he's been spot on every single time. yup.

[sloth]

i dont know if it even qualifies but i really like 'jimmy corrigan, the smartest kid on earth'. reviews like to talk about 'existential angst' but if that puts you off do an image search on google, there are a few spreads from the comic.

[Cliff Steele]

read The Invisibles, it is the best thing Grant Morrison has written and I think it's on par with Preacher. Also check out The Mystery Play if you want something shorter and self contained

[theapportioner]

Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home" is awesome.

[toonamil]

There's two I recommend all to read, being Creature Tech and The Surrogates. Both are published by Top Shelf Productions and are probably two of the most well-written graphics I've read.

[Naught]

Seen the trailer yet for I Am Legend, the new film coming out starring Will Smith? That's a bastardization of an amazing book by the same title by author Richard Matheson. The graphic novel for it is brilliant and oh-so-very worthwhile to get. They used to sell portions of it in chapters separately, but they've since released the complete work in one piece. I picked up my copy for $20. Once you read it, you'll see how badly the movie is going to destroy it just from watching the trailer. I'd rant, but I really need to go to bed soon and I don't feel like writing an essay.

[Cedar]

Transmetropolitan

[terrva]

Here's a list of some of my all time favorite graphic novels (ugh, I hate that goddamn term):
Hard Boiled
Moebius
Anything by Enki Bilal
Valérian and Laureline (I don't even know how many goddamn albums there are)
Judge Dredd albums, if you can call them graphic novels
The Ballad of Halo Jones (don't know why, but I thought it was a batshit awesome trilogy)
Inspector Canardo series by Benoit Sokal (come on, there was no such thing as furries back then, so it's alright to like it)
Pretty much anything by Ralf König (if you don't mind over the top homosexuality in your comics)

As you can see, I'm a sucker for European and especially French comics.

Also, you should check out anything you can find by this finnish guy named Petri Hiltunen (except the Väinämöinen series, it sucks), but i don't know if any of his stuff has been translated. My favorite stuff from him is his Praedor series and the Oath to the Sun (or something, it's called Vala Auringolle in finnish) book.

[sloth]

i'm not usually one to buy comics (you know what, fuck the haters and take it back! it worked with nigga and queer so why not this?) but i've just taken the plunge and bought a lot with the whole transmet comic series (not the trade paperbacks) off ebay. if my torrented collection was paper i'd have worn it out by now so i figured it was only fair. im trying to get a complete collection of the invisibles too, since i downloaded it on someone's recommendation here and promptly dug the shit out of it (and i never got to thank them - thanks!)

[EndersGame]

The "Flight" books are some of my favorites. Even though its a collection of stories put together, the variety and artwork makes for a great read.

"Put this back on the shelf"
"Basalisk"
"Strychnine Lives"
"Wormwood"
"The Sandman Chronicles"