So you enjoy anime? Well, I would assume that most people here do... and you enjoy manga? Again... I'm pretty sure most people here do... but what about graphic novels? Those very long comic books with a massive plot, how do you like them?
I personally got into graphic novels through Watchmen, by Alan Moore, and became a bit of an Alan Moore fanboy, as I now also have V for Vendetta, From Hell, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Snakes and Ladders.
I find the style of the storytelling so much easier to get into than a book, through the visual elements of it, although I should probably check out some other authors, besides Alan Moore... but I don't really know anyone else who is good at writing graphic novel plots, obviously I could check out the artists that did some of the ones I like... but I thought making a topic here in case anyone knew of any decent graphic novels/authors would be a good idea too. :gunsmilie:
I have a poor ability to visualize things when there aren't any pictures - the descriptions of actions and places just don't seem to coalesce into what they are supposed to in my mind, so you think I'd love graphic novels... but oddly enough, I haven't read but maybe one of them... The Death of Superman, I think it was...
I really wish I could read some of the DC ones about some of the key events in the universe - such as the Anti-Monitor fight and where Batman got his back broken by Bane - granted, these are probably only in comic form, but if someone ever collected them into a graphic novel, that'd be cool :gunsmilie:
Quote from: FallenStar on February 04, 2011, 01:45:37 AM
I really wish I could read some of the DC ones about some of the key events in the universe - such as the Anti-Monitor fight and where Batman got his back broken by Bane - granted, these are probably only in comic form, but if someone ever collected them into a graphic novel, that'd be cool :gunsmilie:
Just today I got a short graphic novel, The Killing Joke... by Alan Moore which if you haven't heard of... details how the Joker came into being as The Joker and such (that's what I think its about... I'm gonna read it tonight xD)... but there are some about Batman that are around that I've seen :clap:
Why does that remind me of the time the Joker killed the second Robin?
But yeah... if I had access to a bookstore that had graphic novels and the money to do so, I'd probably buy a lot of them. I've always been interested in the comics but never really liked having to collect thousands of issues... I don't have space for them all, for one. :lol:
Being a big Comic Fan, I have a few, Alan Moore, Mark Millar and such stuff, but mainly Collection Paperbacks of Comics which were originally sold Issue by Issue, from Marvel, DC and Dark Horse, my favorite Publisher!