What graphic novel are you into right now?

I prefer anime, but I'm watching Lovely Complex currently, and before that I watched Useless Animals and Princess Princess.

I am doing a slow re-read of the Sandman trades which have always been my favorites. I also recently read the first Alan Moore writing Swamp Thing trade and I liked it. My current favs would be the Annihilation and Annihilation Conquest trades...I love it. I was in the shop today selling some comics because I'm short on rent and they had the new Killing Joke hardback that I want.

Volume two of The Boys and ordered Avengers: The Intiative, I'm in the money.

Mostly I'm into Negima!, D.Gray-Man, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, MPD Psycho, The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Qwan, and the online graphic novel The Phoenix Requiem by Sarah Ellerton.

Troo said:

MPD Psycho, The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

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Those are both great series.

I'm also currently in love with the Starman omnibus that just came out.

I've been trying to finish the first volume of "Concrete". It's a lovely read, I just can't find the time for it.

Oh, and I finished reading Warren Ellis's "Fell". Holy smokes. It's a great trade, but you need to be prepared for the wild ride he takes you on. ^_^

-An

goatmam said:

Well I only mentioned my current read, but if you add the get backers, hellsing, rurouni kenshin, and digimon, you'd have a group of some of my personal faves.

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I just tend to have about ten books on the go at once

Concrete was a lovely read, I recommend it to everyone. It's a beautiful slice of life book about a man who's brain has been inserted into a concrete body. Nothing superhero about it, just his struggles to adapt and have new adventures. It's by Paul Chadwick.

And I have the second volume of Buffy season eight around here, that's next on the reading list. It's by Brian K Vaughn, who is most truly awesome. ^_^

-An

The Black Dossier. I'm such a bend over for the League.

See, I didn't like the League as I thought I would. It was ruined for me by one single scene and I just never recovered.

Inkdaub said:

See, I didn't like the League as I thought I would. It was ruined for me by one single scene and I just never recovered.

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Which scene?

"Making Comics" by Scott McCloud

I'm working getting the prelims done to start mine. Prelims meaning a lot of early 3-D work since much of it will be produced in Poser.

GreenFriend said:

Which scene?

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The scene wherein Mina and Alan go to the woods looking for Moreau. The rest of the thing was pretty good but that scene just ruined it for me.

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Inkdaub said:

I am doing a slow re-read of the Sandman trades which have always been my favorites. I also recently read the first Alan Moore writing Swamp Thing trade and I liked it. My current favs would be the Annihilation and Annihilation Conquest trades...I love it. I was in the shop today selling some comics because I'm short on rent and they had the new Killing Joke hardback that I want.

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You and I are on the same page of late it seems. I just bought the Sandman graphic novels and I'm also reading them, savoring them, and just all around enjoying the heck out of them. I haven't read Alan Moore's Swamp Thing yet but I just put it on the list. I signed up for a ton of trades last month at a place in Tucson, AZ that will mail them to you at the end of every month. I'm giddy I'm so geeked out from discovering this service exists.

I just read the 3 Annihilation books (are there more? No idea.) and the first Nova book that has Annihilation ties. I enjoyed those a lot.

I bought the Killing Joke years ago, is there a new version or a reprint of the first one? That book is by far my favorite graphic novel ever. It's so dark yet poignant. I felt it in my heart, swear to God. Such a great story.

I have other graphic novels I loved that I may ramble about later when I can remember them. Oh, anything Astro City.

When Wild Cards comes out in Graphic Novel format that will be a keeper also. Those novels are amazingly good if you like comics. (Especially the later ones, the first two are just backstory/history/set up but they're worth reading.)

Inkdaub said:

The scene wherein Mina and Alan go to the woods looking for Moreau. The rest of the thing was pretty good but that scene just ruined it for me.

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Have you read why they met? It talks about why Moreau survived his own book and everything. Look up Jess Nevins.

I liked the idea as Moreau is one of my favorite works of fiction.

Troo said:

Mostly I'm into Negima!, D.Gray-Man, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, MPD Psycho, The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Qwan, and the online graphic novel The Phoenix Requiem by Sarah Ellerton.

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I'm also into Full Metal Alchemist and The Phoenix Requiem. At the same time, I'm also reading Haru-Sari, Nana, and Ouran High School Host Club.

I'm re-reading all of my Runaways and Young Avengers issues in preparation for the most recent Secret Invasion arc. They're basically amazing.

And I'm also re-reading Neil Gaiman's 1402, which is about as essential as his Sandman.

GreenFriend said:

Have you read why they met? It talks about why Moreau survived his own book and everything. Look up Jess Nevins.

I liked the idea as Moreau is one of my favorite works of fiction.

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I like Moreau. The interaction between Mina and Alan was terrible and ruined the thing for me to a point.

Any of you guys read LoEG: The Black Dossier? It's mixed media--sometimes straight text, sometimes comic.

There was a 3-D section at the end that was, IMHO, amazing.

Also, I think vol. 3 of LoEG is due out in Novemberish.

The packaging of LoEG is great. I haven't read Black Dossier, though the comic shop guys try to get me to.

I actually just finished the first two volumes of LoEG. My library doesn't have Black Dossier. Also I'm working through Fables right now which I think is great.

I'm slowly making my way through Sandman because I want to actually own all of them and I'm only up to 4 right now. Graphic novels are expensive and not really a priority for me. :/ I'll finish them all eventually.

Blankets, by Craig Thompson. such a beautiful book. Must steal it from the library someday. I await Sandman 5 to come in the mail- B&N never has it.