Showing posts with label graphic novel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graphic novel. Show all posts

August 27, 2007

Suggested: Two More Graphic Novels

If any of you enjoyed Watchmen or The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes, or didn't, and simply want to explore some other graphic novels, I have two recommendations:

1) Y The Last Man: a story about the sole surviving male human after the spontaneous, simultaneous death of every male mammal on Earth. Published by vertigo, which does a lot of good titles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_the_last_man

2) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: this one's by Alan Moore! The story takes place in 1898 in a fictional world where all of the characters and events from Victorian literature (and possibly the entirety of fiction) coexist. The world the characters inhabit is one more technologically advanced than our own was in the same era. Lots of adventures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_League_Of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen

April 30, 2007

Suggested: Watchmen

While inhabiting the same territory as Orwell's 1984, Gilliam's Brazil, and a number of lesser bleak views of a (then future) society, Watchmen takes full advantage of the graphic novel format to flesh out its characters and plots in ways rarely seen in any medium. Even after 20 years, still probably the best graphic novel out there.