"We must not remind them that giants walk the earth."salient73June 18 2006, 03:19:39 UTC
For the first time?!?!?! I weep for all the wasted years of your life. :)
Seriously, Miller blew my tiny little mind out when I read "Dark Knight Returns" for the first time at the tender age of 13. A lifetime of stored up memories of Batman got hit by a big-ass train, turned inside out, and handed back to me as something even scarier than I ever could have imagined.
Now (if you haven't), read "Batman: Year One" also by Frank Miller which is what every Batman movie ever made should have been (and the latest one comes closest but not quite).
Then read Alan Moore's "The Killing Joke" -- arguably the finest Joker story ever told.
Re: "We must not remind them that giants walk the earth."shamelaJune 18 2006, 20:07:28 UTC
Heh. Wasted? Well, yes and no. :-)
First, sheltered childhood. What can I tell ya. My first-ever graphic novel was _Watchmen_, in college, followed shortly by _V for Vendetta_, so I feel that I started at the top. But for whatever reason, I didn't follow those up with much until later; a lot of sci-fi and fantasy standards to catch up on, I suppose.
But this is the Summer of the Graphic Novel, apparently (in part because I just can't seem to get any focus or energy back for, you know, actual WORK), and I am in the middle of _Year One_, have read all of Gaiman's Sandman, and am working through X-Men, _Persepolis_ and _Persepolis II_, the _Maus_ series, _Bone_, _Y: The Last Man_, _Planetary_, _Promethea_ (READ it read it read it!) and am also devouring a 7-vol. retelling of the Iliad.
Re: "We must not remind them that giants walk the earth."salient73June 19 2006, 03:08:34 UTC
I envy you. "Bone" is quite lovely. I started picking it up as a comic, fell out of it when I fell out of comics, and found the Phone Book edition a few months back and devoured the whole thing. I'll check out "Promethea."
I also recommend "Thieves & Kings" but be warned that the series isn't finished yet.
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(I just finished reading _The Dark Knight Returns_ and _The Dark Knight Strikes Again_ for the first time. Faaack.)
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Seriously, Miller blew my tiny little mind out when I read "Dark Knight Returns" for the first time at the tender age of 13. A lifetime of stored up memories of Batman got hit by a big-ass train, turned inside out, and handed back to me as something even scarier than I ever could have imagined.
Now (if you haven't), read "Batman: Year One" also by Frank Miller which is what every Batman movie ever made should have been (and the latest one comes closest but not quite).
Then read Alan Moore's "The Killing Joke" -- arguably the finest Joker story ever told.
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First, sheltered childhood. What can I tell ya. My first-ever graphic novel was _Watchmen_, in college, followed shortly by _V for Vendetta_, so I feel that I started at the top. But for whatever reason, I didn't follow those up with much until later; a lot of sci-fi and fantasy standards to catch up on, I suppose.
But this is the Summer of the Graphic Novel, apparently (in part because I just can't seem to get any focus or energy back for, you know, actual WORK), and I am in the middle of _Year One_, have read all of Gaiman's Sandman, and am working through X-Men, _Persepolis_ and _Persepolis II_, the _Maus_ series, _Bone_, _Y: The Last Man_, _Planetary_, _Promethea_ (READ it read it read it!) and am also devouring a 7-vol. retelling of the Iliad.
Is that enough to make you stop weeping for me?
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I also recommend "Thieves & Kings" but be warned that the series isn't finished yet.
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