What comic books/graphic novels are you reading at the moment?

SHOWCASE PRESENTS THE WAR THAT TIME FORGOT VOLUME ONE. Stories that originally appeared in DC's Star Spangled War Stories, 1960 - 1966. Dinosaurs and World War Two, one of the really great conceptual mixtures in comics not always pulled off as well as one might hope. Still, with titles like "D-Day For Dinosaurs" with striking covers to match it's hard to come down too hard. Animal lovers may want to keep their distance as about one in three dinos get dispatched with some kind of explosive being tossed into their mouths. And forget continuity; dinosaur island is almost newly discovered every issue even when the same characters are involved. Some good stories though, and the Andru/Esposito artwork is always stunning.
 
Thanks for the heads-up.:)

The only Ennis I read up until now was Preacher and it near blew me away! I have almost all Hellblazer TPBs including all of Ennis' work. Looking forward to reading them when I'm done with Punisher.
 
I'm reading "Watchmen". I don't normally read graphic novels, infact this is probably the first I've ever read. I'm only reading it actually because it was bought for me and now I feel oblidged to read it. Although I'm about halfway through and I'm starting to get into it. Took a while getting used to looking at pictures as well as reading the words.
 
And if you are going to read one graphic novel, it might as well be one of the, if not the best!
 
Well, I quite liked "Watchmen". What would people recommend next? One of Alan Moore's other creations or what?
 
A very leading question, but to play safe anything else by Alan Moore is probably well worth a look - perhaps the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
 
Hmmmm...I just noticed that Alan Moore did "House on the Borderland"...that sounds interesting. Or perhaps I should steer clear of book adaptions?
 
I'm going to have to leave that one to someone else to answer, not having read it and all - but another which springs to mind, is his Jack The Ripper masterpiece, From Hell.

It's a lot better than the film of the same name, and a very literate graphic novel!
 
I was re-reading bits of "From Hell" yesterday, it really is excellent. The art style is very different from Watchmen, being sketchy, scratchy pen and ink, and might not be to everyone's taste, but suits the story.

At the other extreme, art-wise, Promethea is also worth a look. It has very lush graphics and is intelligently written, but after a while the plot takes second-place to Moore's expositon on magical theory, the sephiroth and tarot - readers probably find this either interesting, or baffling and tedious; I don't suppose there's much middle ground.
 
I think that, artistically, I would prefer more abstract artwork in a graphic novel than what was in "Watchmen".
 
Fried Egg said:
I think that, artistically, I would prefer more abstract artwork in a graphic novel than what was in "Watchmen".
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Gibbons is not an artist for all. Usually Alan Moore works with more solid artist.

The Leauge of Extradionary Gentleman is a good series of him that pays alot of respect fantastic literary fiction,some others. With main characters like Allan Quartermain,Nemo,Dr Hyde and Jekyll,Mina Harker etc

The artist is better than Gibbson. He is one of those slow but painting like artist.

His next new League volume one of the characters is Carnacki by William Hodgson.
 
Currently I just finished the second Sandman, The Doll's House, by Neil Gaiman. I hope to start Dream Country, the third installment but I don't have a copy of it. :-( I really love the Sandman novels. At first I was confused, but now I get it.
 
Fried Egg said:
Hmmmm...I just noticed that Alan Moore did "House on the Borderland"...that sounds interesting. Or perhaps I should steer clear of book adaptions?
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Mind you, he wasn't responsible for the adaptation. He merely wrote the introduction, in which he says how much he loves the novel but didn't even read the comic book adaptation, which is a horrible thing to say if you're writing its introduction.

But even though he can be a bit silly at times, he's a terrific writer. For pure horror, I'd recommend Swamp Thing or From Hell. If you want some good sci-fi, The Ballad of Halo Jones or The Complete Future Shocks.

V for Vendetta is also pretty good, one of the best dystopian novels I've ever read.
 
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