This is a pretty good list:
From Hell
Or Else
Sleeper
The Invisibles
100%
American Flagg
The Dark Knight Returns
Miracleman
DC: The New Frontier
Off the top of my head, I’d add Stray Bullets.
What would you add?
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March 9, 2009 at 11:27 pm
The Preacher, Transmetropolitan and Prometheus.
March 9, 2009 at 11:28 pm
flex mentallo
March 9, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Thought of something else:
If you *really* want to know how it all started, read the original Superman comics. You can find the full first issue of Action Comics (Superman’s first appearance) here: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG02/yeung/actioncomics/cover.html
And compilations of his further adventures are available as well:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401206301?ie=UTF8&tag=technoccult-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1401206301
March 9, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Batman: The Killing Joke
V For Vendetta
A Clown With A Gun
The Sandman
Johnny The Homicidal Maniac
The Maxx
March 10, 2009 at 12:57 am
Definitely Stray Bullets, V for Vendetta, Sandman, Miracleman, From Hell, Preacher, Dark Knight Returns, and I suspect sassybritches meant to write “Promethea” instead of “Prometheus.”
I’d add Planetary, Akira, Morrison’s Animal Man, Maus .. there’s a bunch more.
Just started on Y: The Last Man the other day. Fun, fun stuff.
Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware is great, too.
March 10, 2009 at 1:39 am
yes I did mean Prometheus. Also forgot Arkham Asylum. Its just beautiful and dark. Theres so many. But seriously, start with the Preacher.
March 10, 2009 at 2:07 am
You list The Invisibles, but not The Filth?
Tsk, tsk…
March 10, 2009 at 2:22 am
Ooops. That’s not my list, BTW it’s io9’s. I forgot the link but remembered the source this time.
Filth’s great though.
March 10, 2009 at 2:57 am
a combined (short) list from me and dAS:
Sandman
Promethea
New Gods (Kirby)
Martial Law
Stray Toasters
Transmetropolitan
Tank Girl
*the new Tank Girl is pretty cool
Slaine
March 10, 2009 at 3:08 am
100 Bullets
Epileptic
Acme Novelty Library
Reich
Phoenix
Buddha
Understanding Comics
March 10, 2009 at 3:16 am
Oh, I definitely second the recommendations for Reich and Buddha. Also, Osama Tezuka’s Phoenix series and his Adolph series are wonderul as well.
Tezuka = greatest comics creator ever.
March 10, 2009 at 5:36 am
Desolation Jones. Desolation Jones. Desolation Jones.
March 10, 2009 at 9:32 am
* How to Avoid Death and Taxes and Live Forever
* The Hunting Party
* Apparently there is no criteria, so whatever else I happen to enjoy, so long as they are also comic books
March 10, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Moore’s Swamp Thing is excellent. I’d also recommend Eniki Bilal’s Nikopol Trilogy and Hatzfeld Tetralogy. Most comics by Morrisson are just amazing. Miller’s Hard Boiled is also worth mentioning.
March 10, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Doom Patrol
7 Soldiers of Victory
All Star Superman
(actually just buy Morrison stuff sight unseen.)
Madman comics!
Love and Rockets
Jim Woodring’s Frank
Kirby’s 4th World stuff
oh, Garth Ennis run on MAX Punisher? as awesome and gory as the Punisher always should have been.
Black Hole by Charles Burns
Lapham’s Young Liars is kicking my ass, although i think i will die before he finishes Stray Bullets.
just read comics, whatever kind! you’re practically illiterate in this post-alphabetical age if you don’t read comics!
March 10, 2009 at 5:20 pm
7 Soldiers of Victory
Superman Beyond 3-D
Geoff Johns’ run on Action Comics
March 10, 2009 at 5:53 pm
In alphabetical order:
Akira
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
Lucifer
The Sandman
Squee
Transmetropolitan
March 10, 2009 at 7:51 pm
see, I keep forgetting to you know, think things through. Anyway, Promethia was a great primer for me on the tree of life. The Filth is absolutely fantastic as well. I sort of assume everyones read sandman, jhonny, and transmet.
March 10, 2009 at 7:55 pm
I’d also add :
Top 10 series
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
And one that’s going on right now : The Boys (I warn you tho, its F-ed Up to the max)
March 11, 2009 at 4:47 am
Dark Horse’s Conan series.
March 11, 2009 at 3:59 pm
I’d second most of those recommendations.
If we are adding stories that are tricky to get your hands on (Marvelman and Flex Mentallo) then throw in Morrison’s Zenith. Most everything else have good recent collections:
Also Moore’s other superhero work: Captain Britain (if you like that also check out Paul Cornell’s recent series Captain Britain and MI-13), Top Ten, and 1963 (and possibly Supreme if you’ve got a lot of love for Golden Age comics). Also the DC Universe volume collecting his shorter work at DC is good (the short stories on minor characters are fascinating, like “Tygers” – this is current part of the basis of the revitalisation of Green Lantern at the moment so check out the Sinestro Corps War and Rebirth if you like those and keep an eye out for the upcoming series Blackest Night).
If you are looking for other Moore excellence (non-superheroes) then Halo Jones and DR & Quinch. Also the Complete Future Shocks is great. If you want more 2000 AD stories then Rebellion is doing a great job collecting the stories into volumes including all the big classics: Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog and Rogue Trooper and check out the Nemesis the Warlock books (more lovely Kevin O’Neill art and a wild and weird story). Other smaller stories well worth looking up are Indigo Prime, Stickleback, etc.
Details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Alan_Moore
If you want a bit more sci-fi with your superheroes then series building on the Cosmic work of Kirby and Starlin include Marvel’s Annihilation, Annihilation: Conquest, Guardians of the Galaxy and the current War of Kings.
March 11, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Heavy Liquid!
March 11, 2009 at 5:31 pm
The Shadow, as told by Howard Chaykin. That’s story telling!
March 13, 2009 at 1:41 pm
For Manga – in order of quality
Vagabond (zen-samurai), Akira (future-apokalyptic mutant), Eden (2120 unParadisial world), Berserk (Conan vs. Lovecraft)