Good Comics for People Who Don't Like Comics?
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Why I Hate Saturn.
I have a waggish sense of humor.
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- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@SG said in Good Comics for People Who Don't Like Comics?:
You can't go wrong with Aliens V Predator stuff.
I already find a lot about Aliens silly in a "Resident Evil 5" kind of way, and Predator silly in a monster-of-the-week style. (Don't get me wrong, the Alien movies are strong as fear of the unknown, very Lovecraftian, but the justifications for the mythos doesn't jive with this hep cat.)
80s TMNT was a lot of fun. In tretrospect, I'm very surprised that I'm not a furry after being so into ninja turtles for most of my life.
Because you are sane.
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@Arkandel said in Good Comics for People Who Don't Like Comics?:
@Misadventure said in Good Comics for People Who Don't Like Comics?:
Why I Hate Saturn.
Well?
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I looked at picking up that HUmble Bundle of comics, but honestly... the only draw for me was The Maxx. That got turned into one of the most awesome, late night, short-lived cartoons. It, along with Aeon Flux, The Head, and a few others, comprised MTV's late night The Oddities. Just a great lineup of oddball cartoons (most based on comics).
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Liquid Television was amazing.
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Supreme Power and the second volume Squadron Supreme from Marvel are pretty great.
You don't need to have read anything before it and before the series moves on into dumb multiverse hijinks in the third volume it's pretty solid and self-contained.
It takes the basic origin story of Superman, alien baby found in a cornfield by some country folk only HOSHIT the government finds the crash site, takes him and tries to raise him instead and that goes...not well. It's a neat deconstruction of Superman and the Justice League, super powers in general, American culture, etc. etc.^_______^
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If you don't mind webcomics, I would recommend Girl Genius. I think it would suit you.
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Also, if you don't mind homosexual romance plotlines, The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal is a really good read.
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I already introduced you to Planetary in the past. You might want to read other stuf by Warren Ellis, since you did like it.
As such, I would like to posit you might like Global Frequency and, of course, something I have suggested you read many times and I am unsure if you actually, you know, listened: Transmetropolitan.
Seriously, just read Transmet, dude. You will love it.
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Mainstream:
Snyder's Batman reboot with the New 52 (The whole 'Owls' run stuff is gravy)
LoganNewish:
Bitch Planet
Southern Bastards
Saga
DescenderClassics:
100 Bullets
Fables
Sandman
Transmetropolitan
Y: The Last Man
Locke and Key
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@Misadventure I own this but haven't gotten to read it yet. It's in my backlog (About 4 omnibus' and 6 series deep)
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The classics, thankfully, have been noted. The ones I would have immediately pointed out, that is.
100 Bullets
Y: The Last Man
TransmetropolitanPlanetary and Global Frequency are great as well. Honestly, most things written by Warren Ellis. Not all. About 90%.
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@Kairos said in Good Comics for People Who Don't Like Comics?:
Fables, which has been mentioned before, is quite good. I'll second that. I've heard good things about Saga as well but can't speak from experience.
I will third this, Fables in one of the best series in the 2000s though I can only really recommend the first 75 issues.
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@Wizz said in Good Comics for People Who Don't Like Comics?:
Supreme Power and the second volume Squadron Supreme from Marvel are pretty great.
I should note: I do not like superhero comics. It's not that I don't like superheros, but that I don't like stuff that's thrown together. It's why I almost exclusively refuse to read fantasy books except on the strongest recommendation. It's not the power fantasy, it's that I'm close-minded about anything that reminds me of a soap opera. (For quite a few people I know, Joss Wheedon is a "soap-opera" style writer; I completely understand their complaints, but his humor is so delightful that I can forgive terribly agonizingly unrealistic character interactions.)
It takes the basic origin story of Superman, alien baby found in a cornfield by some country folk only HOSHIT the government finds the crash site, takes him and tries to raise him instead and that goes...not well. It's a neat deconstruction of Superman and the Justice League, super powers in general, American culture, etc. etc.
This, mind you, is why I liked "Red Son". What if Superman landed in Georgia, Russia? It makes an extremely compelling case for Lex Luthor as the good guy. Deconstructions and character studies are all fun.
@Derp said in Good Comics for People Who Don't Like Comics?:
If you don't mind webcomics, I would recommend Girl Genius. I think it would suit you.
I enjoyed it quite a lot in the beginning, but then it became a set of endless stories about a perfect character and I lost interest. It's still a good comic, just lost the (ahhem) spark.
@Coin said in Good Comics for People Who Don't Like Comics?:
I already introduced you to Planetary in the past. You might want to read other stuf by Warren Ellis, since you did like it.
Well yes, Planetary was completely amazing. The time-travel bit at the end was kitchy, but as a send-off I was satisfied by it.
Also that comic about five villains with serious emotional issues (one of them a dissatisfied hero) stopping...I can't remember now, the Super-Villain response to the Justice League mentally castrating villains. Clearly the story made a huge impact on me. It was alright, but again, it was about the people more than the situation.
As such, I would like to posit you might like Global Frequency and, of course, something I have suggested you read many times and I am unsure if you actually, you know, listened: Transmetropolitan.
People keep recommending this at me. I tried reading Transmet once or twice and wanted the main character to shut the fuck up by the third page. Maybe I could give it more credence and try to at least read through the first comic, but I was thinking how depleted uranium delivered at speed to the brainpan would not come too soon to that asshole.
I cannot explain why.
@Royal said in Good Comics for People Who Don't Like Comics?:
Y: The Last Man
Yeah, I should look up this classic, too.
@ThatGuyThere said in Good Comics for People Who Don't Like Comics?:
@Kairos said in Good Comics for People Who Don't Like Comics?:
Fables, which has been mentioned before, is quite good. I'll second that. I've heard good things about Saga as well but can't speak from experience.
I will third this, Fables in one of the best series in the 2000s though I can only really recommend the first 75 issues.
You know, I do have the second book in my drawer, here, and I liked the first book pretty well. And the Tell-Tale game, which I know is almost too different to be directly related but still. (Snow White appears to be completely different people. That's fine. No media transition of a property is perfect.)
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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Some more non-superhero recommendations:
The 2003 -2006 Losers series. it was military/ conspiracy story, it was made into a fairly faithful movie of the same name.
The next three are all Howard Chaykin so YMMV but I always enjoyed his writing.
American Century set in the late 40s early 50s focuses on the travels of an ex-GI who finds no end of trouble.
Challengers of the Unknown odd conspiracy theory driven story but an entertaining read
This one is hard to find since it is from the early 80s and I am not sure it was ever collected so likely not something you will be able to hunt down but one of my favorite comic series ever, American Flagg, near future Sci Fi takes places after the corporate take over of America very 80s future though not cyberpunk. Main character is an action star actor whose series gets cancelled and he ends up becoming a cop. -
@Thenomain The beauty of Transmet is that Spider Jerusalem grows on you until you just want him to burn everything to the ground. XD
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As I was drifting off last night a series popped into my head, I am not sure it was mentioned before but definitely worthy of being said again if it has.
The Invisibles by Grant Morrison while I have never been a fan of his superhero stuff, (JLA being the one exception published in the USA, Zenith being the exception published in the UK) I have liked almost everything he has done non-superhero. Invisibles really is Grant at his finest I will admit the third series is not as fine as the first two. -
Completely off topic here, but the ongoing decades-old feud between Grant Morrison and Allan Moore is the pettiest, most legendary thing ever.
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Allan Moore while being a wonderful author most of the time has the inability to get along with anyone over a mid to long term time frame. That said to get this on topic, recommendations for things written by Moore.
Not going to mention the really famous ones since everyone knows about them but on the less famous side,Ballad of Halo Jones. Sci Fi from the UK very character driven not a lot of action, main character is an everywoman who ends up effecting the course of planets. The entire thing was collected into one volume in 2001 and AFAIK has not be reprinted since so might be hard to find.
Tom Strong. Very pulp, the title character is a scientist adventurer, very not dark compared to most of Moore's work.
