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New Graphic Novels

  • 08-02-2017 02:14PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭


    So after a while away from comics I have found a new love for them in the form of graphic novels like
    Transmetropolitan and the boys.
    Any recommendations of some new Graphic Novels I should check out?


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 543 ✭✭✭spektorfive


    Scalped by Jason Aaron is really good from vertigo. Y the last man is another one.
    What are you into? superhero? Image/vertigo type stuff?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,115 ✭✭✭✭Nervous Wreck


    The Wake by Scott Snyder and Sean Gordon Murphy is a great horror sci-film book.

    Saga is pretty much essential reading at the moment too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 543 ✭✭✭spektorfive


    I would say I enjoyed the first half of the wake much more then the second but still good.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 349 ✭✭Reggie noble


    Excellent series I'm reading or have read are -
    Scalped
    Sweet tooth
    Lazarus
    Deadly class
    Southern bastards
    Criminal
    Velvet
    East of west
    Injection

    Ah there's so many , expensive hobbie


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭Coles


    'Here' by Richard McGuire is well worth a look, but it's a shame that more effort wasn't put into giving the storyline more depth.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Of what was mentioned, Injection is good, and is by Warren Ellis, who wrote Transmetropolitan.
    The Wake was good too; if it’s what I think it was; don’t remember it too well.
    Scalped is good but I don’t think it’s as good as everyone seems to say.

    Stuff that wasn’t already mentioned... Tokyo Ghost was brilliant; art also by Murphy (Remender story)
    Crossed +100 (by Moore, not Ennis), Necronomicon.
    Red Rover Charlie, which is pretty much Crossed with dog protagonists.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,633 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    Chew is a fun series.
    Locke & Key was good as well.
    And I second Saga.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    I second chew


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 543 ✭✭✭spektorfive


    Finished Nailbiter from Image. I loved the premise. A small town is a home to the some of America's worst serial killers. But the Book is very camp and silly. I would like a more serious tone to it. It's by Joshua Williamson. I read some of his Flash and that wasn't great either.

    I also finished Unwritten by Mike Carey. Again a great premise of a living breathing world of fiction bleeding into ours. It kept it up for almost the whole run but I think it fell down at the end and not sure about the ending. But overall good and side book was excellent.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    I thought Graphic Science was excellent. It's more a graphic anthology of biographies of scientists than a graphic novel though.

    Started My Favourite Thing is Monsters. Great art and very promising overall


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