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graphic novels that make you go wow

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riskit4abiskit · 04/12/2012 21:48

Hello,

I really rate Maus - about the holocaust as being amazing, and have watchmen too.
Have bought dh one about a plague for Xmas (shamelessly really a present to me!)

Anyone else have any recommendations?
Thanks

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Selks · 04/12/2012 22:37

Persepolis is brilliant

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riskit4abiskit · 04/12/2012 22:34

Also sandman, there seem to be a million versions, could anyone shed any light on that too? Thanks!

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riskit4abiskit · 04/12/2012 22:33

Thanks everyone!

Defo fancy v for vendetta its been on my amazon wish list for ages but as tiggy says its expensive

Also interested now in the ones I was avoiding due to the films.

Aloha, its one.of my faves too, I buy it for others as presents to spread the love!

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hippoCritt · 04/12/2012 22:29

The Shepherd by Ethan Cross, the memory of it still makes me shiver

RillaBlythe · 04/12/2012 22:26

Fun Home is great. Are You My Mother didn't grab me in the same way.

TheElfOnThePanopticon · 04/12/2012 22:23

V for Vendetta is very good - so much better than the film.

TheElfOnThePanopticon · 04/12/2012 22:22

Safe Area Gorazde by Joe Sacco is amazing, but very upsetting to read. I also really like Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. For (somewhat) lighter reading, Fun Home and Grandville are both excellent in different ways. I enjoy the Fable series, too.

Aloha31 · 04/12/2012 22:19

Came here especially to say Maus too! Favourite book of all time.

tiggy114 · 04/12/2012 22:18

LOVED maus. I adored it. I have read very little graphic novels but enjoyed the sandman ones and really liked 30 days of night, which is now a really crap film. I am desperate to read v for vendetta but it's expensive Sad

Emphaticmaybe · 04/12/2012 22:08

Legends: The Enchanted by Nick Percival.
Post-apocalyptic dark fairytale - amazing artwork and story. Maybe difficult to get hold of but worth a try.

Sin City - Frank Miller - gritty, pulpy, hard-boiled crime drama.
Y - The Last Man - Brian K Vaughn - virus kills off all men bar one - life in a female dominated society.
Wolverine: Oldman Logan - Mark Millar - set in the future, super heroes dead villains taken over - a bit like the plot of Unforgiven.

I love graphic novels,Smile

TheSurgeonsMate · 04/12/2012 21:56

I like mine a bit less serious than you, I think. Have my top picks anyway -

Fables, a series of books about almost immortal fairytale characters who have been driven from their homeland to live undercover in NewYork. The first one didn't grab me too uch, but after number two I was hooked and have read them all and all the spin-off serieses.

Locke and Key - "horror" series about a family whose children can see the magic in a set of keys distributed around their old house. Obviously baddies from another world are also interested in the keys. Not too horrible, I don't think, and very ingenious with introducing a new key every now and again to keep you thinking - sex change key, back in time key, become a ghost key, that sort of thing.

Something completely different from comic books series - Posy Simmonds' two graphic novels are great. Gemma Bovary and, er enother one. That got made into a movie. Or maybe that was Gemma.

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