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Does anyone have a copy of this they'd be willing to sell? I've been seeing that it's a great read, but copies seems to be scarce or ungodly expensive.

A weekly thread for people to share what comics they've been reading. Whats good? Whats not? etc

Link to last week's thread.

Im looking for something historical preferably roman or spartan has more than 2 vols and little to nothing sexual (its a preference)

Hi. I need some recommendations, i search for magic, dark magic story. I just love mystery tales like that.

For example i've read hellblazer and damn them all and movies like justice league dark, constantine or Sleepy hollow.

Thanks for your help

I need a minute 😭

So I just bought the first hardcover in this set from Amazon for 50$. But I can’t find the second anywhere for less than around 100$. Why is the second one so much more expensive than the first? Image comics has the book listed for 50. But when I follow their links the prices reflect the 100ish dollars mark. What the heck?

Also I’m finding the third for 50$ lol.

Can anyone direct me to some graphic novels/comics/webtoons in which the main protagonist or the deuteragonist is retired and physically out of their prime? As in, the type where they let themselves go and have gained weight since their absence from action (I mean overweight, mainly the stomach area). Important notes:

• No furries.
• Females I’ll accept cos I’m not fond of huge beards.
• Preferred age group to be middle-aged, around their 30s & 40s. Nothing elderly like 60s or 70s.
• Nothing overly gory. Casual swearing I wouldn’t mind.
• I prefer the art style to be almost animesque and full of expression.

I’ve debated getting it since I’ve seen stuff about the Leviathan & the Cetacean Hierarchy, but what’s it actually about and is it worth the price? (About €60 with free delivery from my usually site for buying comics & books)

Hey guys,

I'm just doing some independent research on the different markets.

I wanted to get more breakdowns when it comes to sales and market size.

Are Comics in general more of a "niche interest" in America while more "Mainstream" in France and Japan?

Would love a story with a very layered mystery

I've been voraciously reading GN's for about a year and I've exhausted the Top 100 list from this subreddit (certainly haven't read them all, but I've read all that interest me). I've also read a fair amount of other stuff.

I generally do not read superheroes. I have read the top-tier Batman stuff (DKR, YO, TLH, DV, TKJ) but only really enjoyed The Dark Knight Returns. No interest in any other superheroes or Marvel/DC stuff.

I honestly wouldn't hate some manga recs either if anyone has any based on my taste. Just learned my local library has a ton.

Not trying to ruffle any feathers or debate rankings, just trying to depict my tastes and list most of what I've read to avoid any overlapping recs.

Here's a (purely my taste) list of what I've read thus far:

Loved

• Parker (S+)
• Most Brubaker/Phillips shit
• Black Hole
• Maus
• The Dark Knight Returns (LOL)

Liked

• Alan Moore bibliography
• Jeff Lemire bibliography
• Sin City
• Preacher
• Blacksad
• Sandman
• Feynman (Never see it mentioned here but I liked it a lot)

Liked but not as much: Upgrade Soul, Snagglepuss: Exit Stage Left, Something is Killing the Children, Persepolis, Ducks, PTSD Radio, Junji Ito stuff, Berserk (haven't finished)

Meh: World of Edena, Daytripper, TMNT: Last Ronin, Ice Cream Man, Monica, Eightball, Akira (objectively good, not my cup of tea)

Popular stuff I did NOT like: Daytripper (gasp!), Black Science, Pride of Baghdad, Jimmy Corrigan, Locke and Key (started strong, lost me in vol 2)

Edit to add stuff already on my to-read list: Ronin, Harrow County, Do A Powerbomb, The Flintstones, Chew, Blankets, Did You Hear what Eddie Gein Done?, East of West (maybe), Invincible (if I truly run out of ideas)

Finished Pulp by Brubaker and Phillips and was blown away. It’s got me wanting to read more westerns but don’t know where to start. Any recommendations appreciated.

EDIT: Thank You everyone for your recommendations I think I’ll be checking out Preacher and East of West right now and working my way through the west.

Hey reddit, I'm a 17 year old whos thinking of writing and making a graphic novel but I don't know which story I should make first so I have come here to ask what the people of reddit think. I currently have 3 story ideas that I have and I will probably end up doing all of them, but I don't know which one I should go with first. These are the stories.

Mechanoia

A story about a world completely inhabited by robots, and their journey to gain their freedom, find out the meaning of their existence, and the consequences of both.

I have the most time put into this one and it's split into 3 main parts named

The Symphony of the Tyrant

The Creator of the Iron World

The Seeds of Annihilation

I have done the most art for this story and have been working on it for the longest amount of time and it is a longer story than the other 2 combined. It is also the only one of the 3 that I have the main skeleton of the story planned out with the major events and plotpoints.

Whenevermore

A story about murder and toxic relationships, what it's like to not want to be okay, and wanting to break away from someone who does nothing but hurt you.

This story is also split into 3 main parts but are much smaller than Mechanoia. It's a much darker story than Mechanoia and I have been working on it for about a year now, and have the main characters designed.

Psychophantasia

A story about a group of young teens suddenly find themselves in a new world of utter imagination, alongside their inner demons.

This story is the smallest of the 3 but has the least work done with it, and I've only been working on it for about a month, and I have only drawn some small concepts with no solid character designs.

I thinks it’s the embodiment of all stories but idk the hierarchy? Also what issues do they appear in?

Hello.

There's this one latter-day 2000AD artist I'm looking for.

He's male (I think), does painted comics, works primarily on Judge Dredd and everything he works on seems to have a weird light greenish-yellow tint to it and a lava-ish tint to skin in particular, like it's boiling alive. His style reminds me a lot of Brian Bolland.

Could any of you help me find him?

I have been reading some erotic novels lately. I just read drunna..It is hell of a book full with absurd situation with an erotic twist.

Do you have something in this category?

I’m so happy! I wish I knew about it sooner, they read some really good stuff! This month we’re reading Bolero! Does anyone else’s LCS do this? I wanted to start this with my college friends but there was a lot of complaints about finding books (even though I offered to find them for them) but it’s okay now!

Can anyone recommend something where text and speech are incorporated into the graphics in an inventive way, perhaps a way that emphasizes the importance of language in the story? Or maybe where the text emphasizes the emotions being expressed? I have a feeling that's a tall ask, but thanks for any recommendations!

Might be a dumb question,(probably is) I know floppy issues can be damaged by UV. Does the same apply to graphic novel covers?

Just read Bad Gateway, one of the collected editions of Megg, Mogg, and Owl, and it made me feel real sad, but I was laughing.

Think the episode of the Simpsons where Homer meets “Michael Jackson” in a mental institution. When Lisa is singing Happy Birthday to herself. I’m laughing and crying.

Got any recommendations for me to laugh at how horrible life can be?

Hello wonderful people. Thank you all for previous recommendations. My eldest has devoured pretty much everything recommended. Prior to joining here she read all of the:

• ATLA Books (me)
• Korra Books (me)
• Owly books (cute!)
• Bone (except she won't read the final book cause she was a bit scared) (rec from here)
• Hilda (me)
• Amulet (rec from here)
• Phoebe and Her Unicorn (school)
• Oz (mom)
• Zita (rec from here)
• Tea Dragon Society (found it on Libby or Hoopla)
• Treasure in the Lake (rec from here)

I need to feed her more material.

Can I get more recommendations pretty please?

People in the ghibli forum told me she's too young for Naussicaa. She's seen every Miyazaki film, multiple times over at this point.

She reads above her level, so I'm okay with content 'normally' for slightly older kids.

I'm getting her the Calvin & Hobbes compendium for her birthday in a week (turning 8)

Plus Animal Man: the Meaning of Flesh

I'll go first, I was twelve when I first read Crossed by Garth Ennis. Probably one of the worst things in the comic book world you could have nostalgia for but I do.

The Fables series, by Bill Willingham, is one of my favourites (including the Jack of Fables and videogame spin-offs). Anyone else read them? Don't see them mentioned often and it always bugged me that the show Once Upon A Time stole the idea.

Can you suggest me graphic memoirs like Katie Green's novel: Lighter Than My Shadow in which there is a main focus on the concept of the "shadow"? (I need a graphic novel with such a theme so as to make a comparison between this one and Lighter Than My Shadow.)