pictures! and words!

[schmerica]

SO. COMICS, HUH? So that's what you've been talking about for the past, you know, five years!

...I mean.

Okay, so I read the complete run of Sandman and The Dark Knight Returns and a bunch of other random stuff a couple years back, but this last week I have read:

Age of Bronze: a Thousand Ships; Age of Bronze: Sacrifice; Green Arrow: Quiver; Y The Last Man: Unmanned and the first half of Alias Omnibus. And, uh, possibly more Y the Last Man is on the way. And Runaways. And a bunch of random individual comics, too. Um. *cries* Is this fandom supposed to be so expensive?

So I guess my question now is: what next? Tell me what I should read! Graphic novels are good, current series, past issues and excitingness. And what can anyone of you tell me about sharing or downloading issues? I am under the impression that torrents aren't incredibly useful?

...If I were smart, I would have gotten fascinated by comics at a time when I was up in Portland so I could make Livia and Zee dump everything to read in my lap in their apartment. Hmmph.

ON A DIFFERENT NOTE: I saw Superman Returns today with speshope, and it was ridiculously, shockingly visually glorious. However, I refer you all back to my requirements for fictional love triangles! To wit: please either have one leg of the triangle be uncompletely unsuited for each or make one of them a bastard, OR make all three of them easily smooshable into a nice OT3 scenario. Otherwise -- and this is the case in Superman Returns -- it is all MUCH TOO STRESSFUL.

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[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

Fables and Lucifer, babe. The former is a multiple-volume series (still going) about the Fable (read: fairytales) community in New York, and the latter is a spin-off from Sandman about, well, guess who. Keep reading Y, it only becomes more unbelievably awesome. The first Books of Magic (another Sandman spin-off) is good, because Neil wrote it, but avoid the rest. Also, Joss's Astonishing X-Men is naturally very good, and Gaiman's 1602 was pretty decent, and I hope you have read the graphic novel of Ghost World and if not you must read that FIRST. I can give you a bunch more single-indie-graphic-novel recs if you want.

Oh, and Watchmen. And League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Moore is kind of scary, but you have to read him.

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[ladyclio16.livejournal.com]

I second the recommedation for Fables. When I saw this post that was the first thing I was going to come in and recommend. That's just about the only comic I read anymore. I pick it up graphic novel form. I'm just in love with it. It's fairy tales for grown ups. What happens after happily ever after... when it's just not so happy any more. Any comic where Snow White has a litter of babies with the Big Bad Wolf (calls himself Bigby Wolf in the comic) and it not only works in the story, but you route for them as a couple. Now that's a comic you gotta love.

I'll second the 1602 rec too. If you want to have any hope of knowing what is going on in Marvel these days you probably need to check out The House of M and the comics surrounding that storyline too.