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| Loona 459th Post
  
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|  "Re(1):Comic/Graphic Novel recommendations" , posted Mon 12 Sep 17:28  
I'd personally recommend the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (there was a movie, but you can safely ignore that) - basically Alan Moore writing crossover fanfic starting with victorian-age public domain characters (Captain Nemo, Jekyl and Hyde, etc...), and over later volumes stretching to other ages in time (previous volumes have covered more ancient versions of the League back to Gulliver's times, while a recent new volume covers the 60s so there's more dancing around copyright, but you still get to see references to things like Dr Who and Harry Potter).
Work surprisingly well, as as far as background knowledge goes, you don't need much, but being familiar with some classic (and a few more obscure) works of fiction helps - but there's at least one guy online, Jess Nevins, who's bothered to keep track of all references and even published books listing it all.
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| Pollyanna 3117th Post
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| "Re(3):Comic/Graphic Novel recommendations" , posted Tue 13 Sep 08:36
Oh, I forgot about the Umbrella Academy. The art was just barely tolerable for me, but I liked the story.
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Hey Polly, have you seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_64GdGhuOkU
I did! But long before I realized what I was watching. I can't believe I forgot about it, so thanks for the reminder!
It's pretty impressive how well they were able to emulate the art style, but there's something about the voice acting that bugs me...and the more material they added, the less amusing I found it. Though, if I had to make that much material from an incredibly short story that just barely made sense, I don't know if I could do any better.
On a side note, one of my favorite things about the original is that Emperor Zombie's girlfriend hardly spoke at all, and always fled immediately at the first sign of danger.
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| Loona 460th Post
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| "Re(3):Comic/Graphic Novel recommendations" , posted Tue 13 Sep 17:55
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My taste is not for everyone when it comes to graphic novels/comics, but that won't stop me from suggesting Top Ten, which I found to be well written and to not particularly rely on cliche as comics often do. Go for the first two books; you may want to avoid the temptation of the second two, which I didn't enjoy as much. Think 'interdimensional police drama'.
The first 2 books are written by Alan Moore, after that some other writer takes over and it probably shows, as Moore shoes are pretty much the biggest to filin the comics business.
The interdimensional factor isn't as big a deal in the comic though - it's more along the lines of a police procedural in a city where everyone's some kind of superhero archtype, and it all evens out in a "if everyone's special, no one is", so the issues the characters coe across are pretty down-to-Earth with a twist - for a couple of background examples, a guy with laser vision works as a cook, and a group of time travellers run a delivery service.
There's also the Smax mini-series, which follows a couple of Top Ten characters to a fantasy setting and plays with that genre to good effect.
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| Just a Person 1504th Post
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| "Re(3):Comic/Graphic Novel recommendations" , posted Thu 15 Sep 00:39
Marvel recently has been releasing Noir recreations of their characters (usually in 4-issue miniseries), and from what I know, most of these miniseries have been collected in TPB or HC editions (so that you don't have to search for issue 2 or 3). I just read Spider-Man Noir and X-Men Noir so far, but both have been great reads.
And the best thing is: not only you don't need to know anything about the chronology of the original versions of these characters (i.e., you can read Spider-Man Noir without knowing anything about regular Spider-Man), but they are also not connected; that is, you don't need to read Punisher Noir in order to understand Daredevil Noir or vice-versa for instance, each miniseries is a separate tale, except for Weapon X Noir (sequel of Deadpool Pulp), Spider-Man Noir: Eyes Without A Face (sequel of Spider-Man Noir) and X-Men Noir: Mark Of Cain (sequel of X-Men Noir).
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Other suggestion, but this one would be harder to get, is the trilogy of MSP 50 books in Brazil. Each of these books gather 50 different Brazilian artists (from comic strips to super-hero comics, manga-like comics, etc.) creating stories using the characters from Brazilian comics writer Mauricio de Sousa (I don't know if you have heard of him, but he's really huge in Brazil - and I know he's pretty popular in many other countries as well). Because of this variety of backgrounds for each artist in these books, you get very different kinds of story in each book, and in my opinion, all of them turned out to be excellent.
Lots of great artists have participated of these projects, like Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá (Casanova), Mike Deodato (Dark Avengers), Erica Awano (Holy Avenger), Ziraldo (O Pasquim), Luke Ross (Captain America), Ed Benes (Birds of Prey), among several others.
As I said, there are three of these books: MSP 50 - Mauricio de Sousa por 50 Artistas; MSP +50 - Mauricio de Sousa por Mais 50 Artistas; and MSP Novos 50 - Mauricio de Sousa por Novos 50 Artistas.
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"Re(2):Comic/Graphic Novel recommendations" , posted Tue 13 Sep 10:18
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