Dr Pepper
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Was never a big fan of comics or animation really - but was pursuaded to read the whole of 'Preacher' by Garth Ennis a couple of years back ..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preacher_(comics). Pretty much smashed through all 8 or 9 compilation books in a couple of sittings and absolutley loved it ...cant really recommend this book high enough
Since then ive gone through Watchmen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen and The Walking Dead http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_walking_dead- both of which are sensational....Watchmen is up there with the best Novels of all time without a doubt.
All of these were borrowed off a friend...now thinking of buying some myself - just wondering if anyone has any recommendations?
[Edited on 15-07-2011 by Dr Pepper]
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Jake
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my mate told me to read the watchmen. never been so bored reading a book
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Dr Pepper
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Originally posted by Jake
my mate told me to read the watchmen. never been so bored reading a book
How far did you get into it - the first 20 pages or so are a struggle I admitt.... after that its stunning. I dont get how you were bored by it?
Read preacher if you want something fast paced - it is fucking immense
[Edited on 15-07-2011 by Dr Pepper]
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Brett
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Of Mice and Men 
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Jake
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quote:
Originally posted by Dr Pepper
quote:
Originally posted by Jake
my mate told me to read the watchmen. never been so bored reading a book
How far did you get into it - the first 20 pages or so are a struggle I admitt.... after that its stunning. I dont get how you were bored by it?
Read preacher if you want something fast paced - it is fucking immense
[Edited on 15-07-2011 by Dr Pepper]
half way through i think. i ended up falling asleep actually. each to their own though
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Gary
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 Love how aldults call Comics 'Graphic Novels' in an attempt to not look like so much of a geek
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Of Mice and Men
Now there is a book.
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Dr Pepper
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Originally posted by Gary
Love how aldults call Comics 'Graphic Novels' in an attempt to not look like so much of a geek
Kind of agree with you ... however the three I have read so far dont really read like comics -preacher and walking dead have extreme adult content and there is much more actual prose to read than pictures. Basically like watching a really long film scene by scene. Watchmen is essentially a novel - its got breaks in the graphics where you just have three or four pages of writing.
As I say - im not really a 'comic book' fan - have no interest in marvel superheros or anything like that. Imo there are comics and then there are graphic novels, and the two things are not the same at all.
[Edited on 15-07-2011 by Dr Pepper]
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The Criminal series by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips Eisne is good as is Frank Miller's Batman:
The Dark Knight Returns
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Dr Pepper
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apparantly there was going to be a 'Preacher' tv series - would be fucking epic .... was shelved due to the extreme anti religious bias in it though
some of the actual graphics in preacher are stunning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wsO6zRM_Sk
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