Comic Suggestions?

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The Preacher graphic novels go like this (off the top of my head, anyway): Gone to Texas, Until the End of the World, Proud Americans, Ancient History, Dixie Fried, War in the Sun, Salvation, All Hell's A-Comin', The Alamo.

As for Marvel and DC, you really should give them another chance. I had to stop collecting for financial reasons back in 95 when I went off to college, which was fine, because I was a big Marvel whore, and Marvel was just starting to slip into the shitter at that point. Never cared much for DC.

Then I got hardcore into the Vertigo line when I got out of college and read everything I could...and then I started branching out a little into the mainstream DCU. Good stuff.

As for Marvel, ever since Joe Quesada took over and brought in a largely new team of editorial staff, Marvel has shot their way STRAIGHT out of the shitter and are back at Number One. I never thought I'd see the day I'd pick up ONE Marvel book again, let alone find that they make up the majority of books I buy.

Never in a million years thought I'd buy Spider-Man, but J. Michael Strazcynski's current run is brilliant. Never could get into The Incredible Hulk until Bruce Jones started writing it. They've brought on Garth Ennis to do the Punisher, Brian Michael Bendis to do Dardevil...the whole Ultimates line is a fucking great "relaunch". The revamp of X-Force (now X-Statix) with Peter Milligan and Mike Allred is one of the best books on the shelf. Check some of this stuff out, it's highly worth your while. I can recommend a lot of things to you...don't discount them just because it's Marvel though. A couple years ago I would have done just that and I'd be missing out on some fantastic books.

Check out Alias by Brian Michael Bendis from Marvel. It's a mature reader's title. Yeah, they finally grew some balls like DC and have a "mature reader's" line, but it has nowhere near the breadth and scope of Vertigo (and word has it they're eliminating the "line" per se and just bringing those books back into the regular Marvel fold...with "explicit content" warning labels of course).

I felt no need to reiterate about Dark Knight after some other guys mentioned it...but you really DO owe it to yourself to check it out. One of the most defining moments in comics. DK2 doesn't live up to the original, but it's still a fun book and the artwork is breathtaking as always.