/lit/ - Literature

>>20349780
Looks like I hit a nerve. You picked
>Junji Ito
Basically Stephen King.
>JoJo
Homoerotic action schlock.
>Berserk
Blood and gore that evolves into an exploration of the author's obsession with nude children.
>V for Vendetta
Young anarchist hippy Alan Moore shitting on conservatives
>Vinland Saga
21st century gender politics in the 9th century.
You didn't even try. You just picked up whatever's popular on reddit. You have no interest in comics as a medium. Do you know who Will Eisner is? Do you know who Dave Sim is? Have you ever heard of Osamu Tezuka or Jiro Taniguchi? Shinichi Sakamoto? David Mazzucchelli? Chris Ware? Takehiko Inoue? Even Art Spiegelman?
No, I don't think you know who any of those people are. Because you don't care about comics, you never even wanted to learn.

I will go first. No capeshit please.

This book (Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli) was the first, and so far only, graphic novel that I read which fully utilized its medium. I'm sure that there are other graphics novels out there that are also great, but in many cases it seems like they could just as well have been regular novels and been just as good, if not better.

Just to give you something completely different as a suggestion, this graphic novel (Asterios Polyp) could be well worth your money. I read it recently and greatly enjoyed it. Most stories told in comics / graphic novels would probably be even better in pure prose, but this is an exception IMO. It is smartly written, fully utilizes the medium and is definitely re-readable. I actually read a scanned version off libgen and realized after I finished it that I wanted it on my shelf to be able to return to it in a year or two.

If it doesn’t interest you, a recent read that I enjoyed was Fathers & Sons by Turgenev.