What other good schtuff is out there?

[moderndulcinea]

I'd like to know what other comics you all know and love out there. Let me know what you like, and why it tickles the feathers in your brain!

What I've dug so far...
Ghost World
Action Girl
Sandman
Books of Magic
Eightball
Barry Ween
Preacher
Love & Rockets
Adrian Tomine collections

I especially like supporting little known or independent comics.


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[Lyric054]

Well, I read Gloomcookie, Lenore, JTHM, Squee, and once in awhile SugerCat. I am trying a few others. I read the Willow & Tara that Terry did the art for and would love to read more of it. OH..I just picked up Love & Chaos.

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[GeminiCancer]

Kabuki rocks. It's a bit violent, but there's definitely a greater story there; it's not just about the violence. The first Kabuki graphic novel is so well written and well timed.

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"They mostly come out at night. Mostly." --Newt, Aliens

"I can crack all your ribs, but I can't break your heart." --Jill Sobule

"Take it easy, but take it." --Woody Guthrie

[pajkub]

Yay! I love when people ask this question!

My first and true love:
Elfquest by Wendy and Richard Pini

Bone by Jeff Smith

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud

Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind by Hayao Miyazaki

Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse

Why I Hate Saturn by Kyle Baker

anything by Jessica Abel

Lone Wolf and Cub by Goseki Kojima and Kazuo Koike

READ ALL THOSE--YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED! Yay! I love comic books!

--Lillian pajkub

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[Thrasymachos]

A Distant Soil
Stray Bullets
Age of Bronze
Akiko
Scary Godmother
Bone
Kabuki
Castle Waiting
THB

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Peregrinator in paradiso.

[nicewitch]

Definately Lone Wolf and Cub. It's much easier to find this now than it was a couple years ago. Dark Horse presents reprinted this comic in its intended original form which is to say in these tiny little books that you can find at Borders bookstore for about $9.95 each. Or you can have your local bookstore or comicshop order them in for you. Very good story that will suck you in.

a few of my personal favorites are the ElfQuest, Bone, Scary Godmother, Sandman, Poison Elves, J. O'Barr's original The Crow, Astro City, and Starman aren't bad. Starchild by James Owens is fantastic, but he hasn't really put out anything new as of late. I have been trying to track down some Kings & Thieves and having zero luck. Ummm..that's about it.

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if the world is going nuts, who has the nutcracker?

[christinethebean]

kabuki
cry for dawn
a distant soil
johnny the homocidial maniac


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[txporter]

Howdy folks,

I am an old SIP fan, but new to the forum.

As to 'good stuff'

I got started in anthropomorphics, so my first choice for a good read if you like SIP is "Omaha, the Cat Dancer" by Reed Waller & Kate Worley. A real tragedy when they broke up. Probably only available in TPB now, and I treasure my original copies. Many similarities to SIP: exciting story, absolutely engaging characters, wonderful emphasis on humane tolerance of others. (Oh, I forgot, lots of hot sex as well)


Sticking in the furry vein, "Usagi Yojimbo" by Stan Sakai has just gotten better and better. Shogunate Japan is a great setting for intrigue and emotional drama, and over the past few years Sakai has been filling in between the political intrigue threads with stories based in Japanese fok tales and ghost stories.

I don't know how people feel about Manga here, but I liked "Maison Ikkoku" by Rumiko Takahashi. It is a practically never-ending boy meets girl with complications that I found different from most of the other manga I looked at.

Oh man, before I forget, I thought "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman as a graphic novel was just out of sight! I cried over that one.

Thats about all I can think of right now, I used to be a serious fanboy, but I only get a couple books any more. I like Bone real well, but can't quite bring myself to cough up for the TPB's right now, and thats the only way I will be able to catch up. SIP and Liberty Meadows are the only inhabitants of my reserve bag these days.

(OT comment

I feel for everyone who laments the time it takes for the SIP story line to develop. I bought on and off during VOL II days and started picking up SIP regularly when VOL III started. I got the TPB's for VOL I & II and am I glad I got them. I happened to pick up #43 & #44 at the same time and so avoided the angst that has affected so many readers, but at that point I had to go back and spend the weekend rereading the entire Opus to figure out where I was. Whew!

Anyway, there is my initial $.02, and as a first time poster, I can only say to Terry "Thanks for the best thing on my bookshelf, and thanks for letting me get to know all the wonderful (and not-so- wonderful) people in SIP. I really feel honored to have them be a part of my life."

Tom Porter


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[wolfbrown]

My currents faves:

SIP (of course)
Herobear and the Kid
Zooms Academy For The Super Gifted
Patrick The Wolf Boy
Birds Of Prey
Harley Quinn
Universe
Ruse
The Magdelena
The Simpsons
Futurama
Wolverine
Top Ten
Anything by Alan Moore


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Even a man who is pure of heart and says his prayers by night - may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms and the autumn moon is full and bright.

[Darth Fett]

Promethea-easily the most underrated ABC book done by Alan Moore.

American Century- Howard Chaykin at his hard boiled best.

Powers-nuthin' but cops and dead super heores. Bendis write some of the best natural language dialouge I have ever read

Garth Ennis' World War II Specials from DC-currently available are Johan's Tiger and D-Day Dodgers. Simple amazing

Amazing Spider-Man-Joe Straczynski had made webhead fun again!

Just a few for you all to chew on....

Darth

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'If a man is willing to die, he can be killed'
Sun Tzu, The Art of War