Graphic Novels

[skelneth]

I am putting together a Graphic Novel collection for the college library and while I already have a few and some on order, I need to order some more.

Does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations and reasons why?

Comments

[adze]

Rising Stars, by J. Michael Straczinski - very interesting take on there being just a very few normal people with powers, and a very few of them who use them in any way we'd see as superheroes

Kingdom Come - without a doubt, one of the best things things DC has ever released.

Identity Crisis - a superhero murder-mystery, essentially, and very well done.

[maelgwyn]

I guess it depends what you want the collection to do. There are grapic comic addaptaions of books which would show storytelling in a different light, there are brilliant British writers, so you could go looking at the collections from 2000AD - not straight forward graphic novels, but clearly demonstrating the growth of the British industy. You have a local talent in Tony Lee, Midnight Kiss or Hope Falls are both worth a read and gives you a local angle.
And if you're not worrying about being PC then The Boys and The Pro are both options.