11-06-2015, 06:07 PM
Figured I'd search to see if there were any comic threads before making one, and here we are!
So I read a few comics as a kid, but was mostly interested in the art. I have to say, I really wish I kept at it because I started to read comics again and it's such a fantastic medium.
I picked up The Wake, which was a 10-issue series. It's about a mysterious sound coming from a creature deep within the ocean. The writing instantly draws you in and the comic deals with spiritual symbolism. It was highly synchronistic, as a central aspect of the comic deals with water which is something I've been thinking about lately. Every other page seems to have a WHOA moment, and the art is lovely. I absolutely loved this comic, and highly recommend others pick it up.
Then there's Chew, a comic about a detective that lives in a world where chicken is outlawed and sold on the black market, he can gain psychic impressions of food by taking bites out of them (he starts taking bites out of crime scene victims), and there are aliens involved! It's a hilarious comic that makes me laugh out loud.
I just started reading Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run, and I can tell it's going to be a good one. Even though he's not a superhero character, I never would have thought I could be drawn into a comic as an adult that deals with a superhero-like fantasy character like Swamp Thing. But when I read reviews about how the comic is a metaphor between man and its relationship to nature, and trying to find itself, I knew it had to be great.
Getting through Y: The Last Man vol 1. was a struggle so I stopped after that, and I stopped reading The Walking Dead after a few issues. For that reason I won't bother with Saga.
I do remember you recommending Morrison's Invisibles Spaced, so I plan on picking that up after I read Watchmen. I'll eventually get to Sandman as well. I'm really seeing how cool comics can be. Like there is Superman: Red Son. The premise is what if Superman landed in Russia instead of the US, and is used by the Russians as a weapon? That idea is just cool a s***.
Any other recommendations from anyone?
So I read a few comics as a kid, but was mostly interested in the art. I have to say, I really wish I kept at it because I started to read comics again and it's such a fantastic medium.
I picked up The Wake, which was a 10-issue series. It's about a mysterious sound coming from a creature deep within the ocean. The writing instantly draws you in and the comic deals with spiritual symbolism. It was highly synchronistic, as a central aspect of the comic deals with water which is something I've been thinking about lately. Every other page seems to have a WHOA moment, and the art is lovely. I absolutely loved this comic, and highly recommend others pick it up.
Then there's Chew, a comic about a detective that lives in a world where chicken is outlawed and sold on the black market, he can gain psychic impressions of food by taking bites out of them (he starts taking bites out of crime scene victims), and there are aliens involved! It's a hilarious comic that makes me laugh out loud.
I just started reading Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run, and I can tell it's going to be a good one. Even though he's not a superhero character, I never would have thought I could be drawn into a comic as an adult that deals with a superhero-like fantasy character like Swamp Thing. But when I read reviews about how the comic is a metaphor between man and its relationship to nature, and trying to find itself, I knew it had to be great.
Getting through Y: The Last Man vol 1. was a struggle so I stopped after that, and I stopped reading The Walking Dead after a few issues. For that reason I won't bother with Saga.
I do remember you recommending Morrison's Invisibles Spaced, so I plan on picking that up after I read Watchmen. I'll eventually get to Sandman as well. I'm really seeing how cool comics can be. Like there is Superman: Red Son. The premise is what if Superman landed in Russia instead of the US, and is used by the Russians as a weapon? That idea is just cool a s***.
Any other recommendations from anyone?