Comics

[Anonymous No.17223596]

Help me /lit/, I have not read a single comic in my entire life.
Is there a chart that can tell me which, if any, are worth reading?
Am I missing out or are comics just a waste of time?

[Anonymous No.17223611]

>>17223596
Find a character you like. Google the best comic/series for that character. find some more characters you like in those comic books, and repeat. While reading, if you like the art, find more works by that artist.
Watchmen is a meme, its more a meta-comic than anything else. Its still worth a read though.

[Anonymous No.17223613]

Goodnight Pun Pun

[Anonymous No.17223618]

>>17223596
For serious and occasionally funny and heat wrenching look no firther than the works of Garth Ennis
Adult stories for an adult audiance Id start with his Nick Fury Series My War Gone By

[Anonymous No.17223631]

20th Century Eightball is pretty good, not superhero more neurotic

[Anonymous No.17223634]

>>17223596
Read your country's comics.

[Anonymous No.17223639]

>>17223596
Start with Miracleman or swamp thing if you want moore

[Anonymous No.17223645]

>>17223618
>>17223631
Thank anons.
>>17223611
I was looking for a comic as /lit/ as possible, I don't feel like reading anything like Marvel and the like.

[Anonymous No.17223715]

>>17223645
Check out 80s vertigo comics. Most /lit/ picturebooks burgers have produced.

[Anonymous No.17223720]

>>17223596
>I have not read a single comic in my entire life.
Good
>Is there a chart that can tell me which, if any, are worth reading?
Go to /co/mblr
>Am I missing out or are comics just a waste of time?
The latter (unless you’re reading asterix comics, which are based)

[Anonymous No.17223735]

Batman and Conan are the only ones worth reading.

[Anonymous No.17223742]

>>17223645
Eiland is pretty amazing, not sure how available it is these days.

[Anonymous No.17223752]

>>17223596
I recommend Maus for first time comic readers. Watchmen is another must read comic. In terms of /lit/, I say there's something Shakespearean about Carl Bark's Donald Duck.

[Anonymous No.17223784]

>>17223596
>Am I missing out
Generally, no. Asterix and Tintin are great and there are a few decent anglo comics like Watchmen and Transmetropolitan

[Anonymous No.17223907]

Comics are not literature. Literature refers to a text-based medium. Comics are not a text-based medium. Comics are image!-based medium. You can make a comic without text but you can't make a comic without images. Comics and literature are distinct media.ncomics are not a genre of literature. Please stop posting about them here. There is another board specifically for comics and animation. Please go there instead.

[Anonymous No.17224103]

>>17223596
https://www.youtube.com/c/comicsexplained/videos

[Anonymous No.17224106]

>>>/co/

[Anonymous No.17224115]

Try Sandman

[Anonymous No.17224124]

read the ones by Hermann Huppen

[Anonymous No.17224129]

How about the crown jewel of Euro duck comics made by an American?

[Anonymous No.17224161]

just skip all that garbage and read hentai

[Anonymous No.17224165]

anything from the british invasion
or just ask >>>/co/

[Anonymous No.17224168]

>>17224129
Based

[Anonymous No.17224399]

>>17223596
for the most part they are not worth reading. I loved them until highschool and have a massive collection but other than hellboy I dont care for them at all

[Anonymous No.17224416]

If you're looking for something /lit/ish check out animal man by grant morrison, swamp thing by moore, or sandman by gaiman.

[Anonymous No.17224424]

>>17224129
probably the moby dick of comics, more naive and mature than all the other contriving faggots

[Anonymous No.17224433]

>>17224416
Almost forgot, read cerebus, it's probably the most autistic comic of all time so you might enjoy it

[Anonymous No.17224835]

>>17223596
There are those artsy 60s/70s Euro comics, mostly from France, like Moebius. These are worth it for the artwork alone.
Some Manga are worth it as well, like Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, or Kabu no Isaki.

[Anonymous No.17224852]

watchmen
v for vendetta
sandman collection
preacher
swamp thing

[Anonymous No.17224887]

>Superman
All-Star Superman, What's So Funny About Truth, Justice and the American Way?, Superman for All Seasons
>Batman
Batman: Killing Joke
Dark Knight Returns
Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader
Batman Year One
Elseworlds: Batman Holy Terror
>DC Universe
Kingdom Come
>Hulk
Hulk Gray
Planet Hulk is a decent series
>Mike Mignola
Hellboy (entirety)
>Grant Morrison\
Flex Mentallo
Animal Man
The Invisibles
The Filth
>Alan Moore
V for Vendetta
Swamp Thing
From Hell
Watchmen
>Neil Gaiman
Sandman

[Anonymous No.17225575]

>>17224887
throw in whatever happened to the man of tomorrow for supes

[Anonymous No.17225614]

>>17223596
why /lit/
wouldn't it make more sense to ask /co/?

[Anonymous No.17225828]

>>17223596
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths by Shigeru Mizuki
WWII on the jap's side. Funny, depressing, crude

[Anonymous No.17225834]

>>17224106
>>17224165
>>17225614

[Anonymous No.17226092]

>>17223611
That’s a great way to get into capeshit, which is a terrible way to get into comics.

[Anonymous No.17226657]

>>17223596
Tintin is based

[Anonymous No.17226963]

>>17223596
Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Neil Gaiman, and Grant Morrison are the most /lit/ comic book writers you're likely to find. At least as far as superhero comics go.

[Anonymous No.17227051]

>>17223596
Read Moore and all the rest that came from the British wave during the 80s, which means you'll go through Gaiman's The Sandman. Also read Saga and Hellboy since Moore loves them, the Maus comic is another one worth checking out, so is Ditko's Spider-Man run, another favorite of Moore's. From Hell and Moore's Swamp Thing run are easily the greatest comics out there, V for Vendetta is also great, and so is Promethea. If you aren't scared of the whole 1000+ pages long aspect of what he considers his greatest work, that being the novel Jersualem, then I would also recommend reading that. It's brilliant.

[Anonymous No.17227070]

>>17226963

I quite like Jeff Lemire too. I suggest checking out both Essex County and The Underwater Welder.

[Anonymous No.17227095]

BROS, MOORE'S VOICE OF THE FIRE IS GETTING A NEW EDITION IN A FEW MONTHS AND THE PREORDER IS UP ON BOOK DEPOSITORY! GET HYPED!

[Anonymous No.17227185]

>>17224887
Flex Mentallo but no Doom Patrol? C'mon man

[Anonymous No.17227548]

2000 A.D. is bretty gud. Especially early issues, find a a collection of old Judge Dredd, Halo Jones, or Strontium Dog ones.

[Anonymous No.17227968]

>>17223645
If you want /lit/ comics, then ignore everyone telling you to read superhero and pulp stuff. Inio Asano, Taiyou Matsumoto, and Alan Moore all have some good stuff. Also Asterios Polyp, Maus, Daytripper, Duncan the Wonder Dog, and Vehlmann's Beautiful Darkness.

[Anonymous No.17227985]

If you read one comic, read Cerebus

[Anonymous No.17227993]

>>17223596
Look at the charts here
https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ

[Anonymous No.17228007]

The only comic worth reading is Faust

[Anonymous No.17228241]

>>17226963
If you're a myth nerd I heartily recommend Walt Simonson's run on Thor as well. It was the first time the marvel Thor felt like a god instead of just another superhero.

The battle of Loki, Odin, and Thor against Surtur is incredible.

[Anonymous No.17228521]

>>17223596
batman court of owl

if you want something long, ultimate spiderman by bendis

[Anonymous No.17228543]

>>17224835
Where can one find a good translation of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou?

[Anonymous No.17228570]

Why haven't you read Miracleman yet /lit/

[Anonymous No.17228587]

[Anonymous No.17228602]

Read Hunter X Hunter, the only comic worthy of being called /lit/.

[Anonymous No.17228719]

>>17223596
just read watchmen. its the peak of comics and is a great ambitious story that achieves more than most lit whilst being engaging at every moment


>>17223611
>Watchmen is a meme, its more a meta-comic than anything else
this, is a meme. watchmen is about so much more than the commentary on comics thing. reducing it to that is an insult

[Anonymous No.17228865]

>>17223618
really based rec anon. ennis's best work imo.

>>17223596
Here's my personal recs:

>vagabond
>Real
>Transmetropolitan
>Alan Moore's Swamp Thing
>Wars Gone By
>Maus
>Logicomix
>The Incal
>Calvin and Hobbes
>Peanuts
>Corto Maltese
> Lone Wolf and Cub AND Samurai Executioner
>All Star Superman

[Anonymous No.17229072]

>>17224129
Don Rosa's pretty good, but he's no Carl Barks

[Anonymous No.17230012]

>no one has mentioned R. Crumb
For shame, most based cartoonist alive

[Anonymous No.17230021]

>>17223596
all you need friend

[Anonymous No.17230180]

>>17224416
>>17224433
>animal man by grant morrison, swamp thing by moore, or sandman by gaiman.
I read all of these.
DON'T read cerebus. It is bullshit.

[Anonymous No.17230217]

I really wanted to get into Spider-Man but the old series are too corny. I feel like they haven’t aged too well.
A friend recommended me Spider-Man: Blue and it’s probably my favorite comic out of all I’ve ever read. The Stracynski run is pretty good. And Civil War is a nice run. The While Spider-Man has too many ups and down to really recommend a starting point.
Tom King’s Mister Miracle is great too.
Gaiman’s Sandman is also quite nice.
Marvels is nice too, the art is really nice.
Out of all these Sandman is the longest tho. But it’s worth it.
I’ve read some transmetropolitan. I liked it but haven’t read comics in a while ever since I retook literature.

[Anonymous No.17230231]

>>17228521
Ultimate Spider-Man has too much 2000s vibes. I read it a couple of years ago and it was oh so cringey

[Anonymous No.17230296]

>>17227985
>If you read one comic, read Cerebus
Cerebus is SHIT.

[Anonymous No.17230373]

>>17223596
largely a waste of time, but you could try FROM HELL
skip the capeshit, even the ones that start well devolve very quickly

[Anonymous No.17230607]

>>17223596
Alan Moore and to a lesser extent Grant Morrison are worth reading.
There's other stuff that's fun (Garth Ennis' Punisher Max, Prophet, ONeils The Question, etc) and a few that are pretty good artsy shit (Jimmy Corrigan).
But really only Moore and Morrison use the medium to it's full potential.
Oh and Neil Gaimans stuff is pretty good, I'd put him under those two.

[Anonymous No.17230661]

>>17230217
Check out Kravens Last Hunt
Great Spider-Man comic

[Anonymous No.17230686]

Foolkiller from the 90's was excellent, great breakdown of what it means to be an antihero.

[Anonymous No.17230698]

>>17227095
The first chapter is phenomenal; incredibly autistic yet great. Shame the rest don't measure up.

[Anonymous No.17230704]

>>17228521
>>17223596
Synder bat is bad, except for Black mirror. Morrison's batepic is the best bat run so go for that

[Anonymous No.17231201]

>>17228719
>that achieves more than most lit whilst being engaging at every moment
kill yourself dilettante.

[OP No.17231278]

Thanks anons, I have written down most of the recs of the thread.
We really should do charts of the most /lit/ comics and manga for people who want to get into them.

[Anonymous No.17231570]

From Hell is good. Moore at his best.

[Anonymous No.17232828]

>>17230012
overrated
also already mentioned here >>17228587
also you are a faggot and should kys