/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18784756]

What are the most /lit/ comics?

[Anonymous No.18784920]

>>18784756
Watchmen

[Anonymous No.18784969]

>>18784756
Kaguya-sama

[Anonymous No.18784975]

>>18784756
Habibi

[Anonymous No.18784981]

>>18784756
Based Mort Cinder enjoyer

[Anonymous No.18784982]

Butterfly and :3 hentai

[Anonymous No.18785003]

I believe Shingeki no Kyojin is for a bunch of reasons but no one has ever shared the sentiment with me.

[Anonymous No.18785015]

>>18784756
Incal

[Anonymous No.18785088]

>>18784920
reddit

[Anonymous No.18785288]

>>18784756
Anything by Alan Moore.

[Anonymous No.18785299]

>>18784920
>>18784969
>>18784975
>>18784982
>>18785003
>>18785088

Trash taste.

>>18785015
>>18785288

Yes.

[Anonymous No.18785305]

>>18785299
>Butterfly and :3 hentai is trash taste

You must be a newfag :3

[Anonymous No.18785496]

>>18785305
Stfu with "muh buttefly :33" in every fucking thread you mongrel subhuman simp holy shit.

[Anonymous No.18785503]

>>18784756
Hidamari Sketch

[Anonymous No.18785518]

watchmen
maus
asterix
sandman
next testament
persepolis
east of west
saga
the incal

[Anonymous No.18785528]

>>18785299
>Anything by Alan Moore is good
>Watchmen is trash
>Watchmen is by Alan Moore
What did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.18785686]

What makes a comic or manga /lit/? Having too much exposition?
Since this thread is probably just to give off things you liked, I'm reading through Dorohedoro right now and it's a fun read.
>>18785003
A shame that Isayama really fuddled the last arc. Seems like he didn't know how to best tackle the heavy themes the story began dealing with in it's second half.

[Anonymous No.18785694]

>>18784756
Cerebus and The Metabarons

[Anonymous No.18786077]

>>18785528
He might be dumb and know nothing about either Watchmen nor Alan Moore. Or maybe he lacks the ability to reason.

[Anonymous No.18786405]

>>18784756
>What are the most /lit/ comics?
the league of extraordinary gentlemen
providence

[Anonymous No.18786465]

Its going to get shit on by contrarians but Watchmen is fantastic and there's a reason its the go-to graphic novel.
I'd also strongly recommend Shooter's New Universe Marvel titles from the 80's (specifically Starbrand) if you like Watchmen's deconstruction elements but want to see them applied to a 'real' serial comic.
Jim Claremont's Uncanny X-Men run is probably the best written of 'true' serial comic and is leaps and bounds ahead of its time in its consistency with characterization and character growth.

If you want manga, Akira is fantastic from start to finish and Berserk, while incomplete, delivers a kind of fantasized nihilism that only action shlock can get you.

[Anonymous No.18786469]

>>18785003
SnK just reeks of inexperience and missteps in writing. Which isn't bad, its actually very engaging to watch a single creator develop their process across a serialized story. But SnK just keeps going on and trying to deliver this sweeping narrative that's very clearly piecemeal instead of the mangaka splitting off to do a fresh story a la ONE with Mob Pyscho 100 or breaking up his story into distinctly separate and experimental stories a la Araki with JoJo's.

[Anonymous No.18786995]

>>18785003
No
SNK is enjoyable, and Isayama knew how to make an intriguing world, but most of the characters are not that interesting and after eren's terrorrist attack everything went downhill

[Anonymous No.18787042]

>>18785686
>>18786469
>>18786995
Don’t agree with any of this. To be honest, I think a lot of people just got filtered because it wasn’t what they thought it would be.

[Anonymous No.18787046]

>>18785528
It’s just some edgy anti-manga poster. Don’t take it too seriously.

[Anonymous No.18787336]

>>18784756
Krazy Kat

[Anonymous No.18787399]

we did it
anything by taiyo matsumoto
kaiji
the flowers of evil
tokyo ghoul

[Anonymous No.18787505]

Les cités obscures

[Anonymous No.18787517]

What does it mean for a comic to be /lit/?

[Anonymous No.18787568]

>>18787517
Good enough to be able to compare it to recent works of literature.

[Anonymous No.18787571]

To answer something other than Watchmen.

"The long tomorrow" by Moebius is short, but invented the cyberpunk aesthetics. Anything by Moebius is pretty /lit/ everything from his cyberpunk epic "the inkal" to his western "blueberry" is both aesthetically pleasing and overflowing with symbolism. I want to say poetry as well, in the same way that van Gogh is a poet. Not that the text rhymes.

"The department of truth" is a currently running comic series with intelligent and entertaining stories around conspiracy theories. The printed book on the first volume is constantly sold out though, I can only get it on my ereader.

I always found the mini-series "the books of magic" by Neil gaiman to be interesting. You might think it looks a lot like Harry potter, even the story has a few similarities. It was published long before any Harry potter books and is a lot more adult.

[Anonymous No.18787618]

>>18787571
Gaiman is not always good but Sandman is a top tier work, definitely the best dark fantasy in graphic format. Stories like 3 septembers and a january, Ramdan, Golden boy etc. are as Borgesian as can be expected from comics.

[Anonymous No.18787649]

better than the source material too

[Anonymous No.18787650]

>>18787517
“I like this and think it’s deep” really.

[Anonymous No.18787654]

>>18787042
Not the plot holes, the rushed pacing of the last arc. Just I think their wrong because insert meme word here this is just a vague statement.

[Anonymous No.18787657]

Calvin and Hobbes

[Anonymous No.18787673]

>>18784969
>>18785003
>>18786469
>>18786995
>>18787042
>>18787399
>>18787649
Manga is not comic, you fucking dumb niggers. Go and read Wittgenstein.
>>18785686
atleast you say 'comic or manga', but you're still a faggot.

[Anonymous No.18787679]

>>18787673
>Manga is not comic
Why are americans so fucking retarded in general?

[Anonymous No.18787685]

>>18787568
how do you compare a mostly visual medium to literature? comics have their own metrics of what makes them good (e.g paneling, storyboard, art style ...), I just don't see how these two can be compared.
It's like going to /mu/ and asking what's the most /film/ album

[Anonymous No.18787688]

>>18787679
I'm not american, you dirty swine.
Go read Wittgenstein to understand the difference between them or go and hang, nigger.

[Anonymous No.18787692]

>>18787685
If it makes you feel deeply, it is /lit/.

[Anonymous No.18787751]

>>18787688
>Go read Wittgenstein to understand the difference between them or go and hang

There are very few fundamental differences in western and Japanese comics. If you want to learn about them you should (and you should either way) read Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. And these differences are becoming less and less prominent since comic book artists around the world gets a broader influx of inspiration due to the increased accessibility of comics from around the world. Manga are different from burger comics as much as burger comics are different from Franco-belgian comics.

"Anime" and "Manga" as terms were pretty much invented by the west by the way pretty much as a marketing tool, in Japan they call their own manga "comic" sometimes and they also call western comics "manga" too.

Pic related is one of my favorite fantasy comics in general but I wouldn't call it /lit/ in the slightest lmao.

[Anonymous No.18787757]

[Anonymous No.18787762]

>>18787757
B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-BASED

[Anonymous No.18787819]

Nippur de Lagash, El eternauta, anything from Manara & Jodorowsky and Corto Maltese.

[Anonymous No.18788171]

>>18787673
mangas are just stylized comics you stupid retard, just like manhwa are korean comics. rope

[Anonymous No.18788188]

>>18788171
Then they are not burger comics, you dumb fucking retard

[Anonymous No.18788203]

>>18788171
Stupid nigger.
Again, read Wittgenstein or go and hang.

[Anonymous No.18788206]

>>18788188
who tf cares about burger comics anyway? there are like 5 noteworthy at best

[Anonymous No.18788405]

>>18787688
manga is literally japanese translation for "comic"
you are actually fucking retarded.

bet you think Grínisti, komiczny
bande, dessinée, quadrinho
isn't comic ether.

[Anonymous No.18788412]

>>18788203
>>18787673

Wittgenstein
is for kikes,
go shill elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.18788535]

>>18787685
You can’t. Comics are literally, by definition, not literature. This is just people trying to justify why they like something because they feel insecure about it’s common perception as childish or for children.

[Anonymous No.18788541]

>>18788405
>Imagine thinking translations are exact

[Anonymous No.18788562]

>>18785015
This and the metabarons

[Anonymous No.18788564]

>>18785299
Behold the utter incompetence of the mass replier.

[Anonymous No.18788569]

>>18788412
Wittgenstein is great

[Anonymous No.18788626]

>>18787517
>written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit.
many comic books can be seen to meet this definition.
>>18788535
see above. some comics are by definition literature. sandman, watchmen, swamp thing and dark knight returns are all examples of literature that can be the subject of legitimate literary discussion.

[Anonymous No.18788704]

>>18785003
lmfao it's fucking trash that's why

[Anonymous No.18788712]

>>18788626
Comics are drawn, not written works. They can’t even be said to be mostly written works. They’re not literature. That’s not a knock against comics so much as a recognition that they’re just not literature.

[Anonymous No.18788746]

>non manga
Tintin, unironically
and if you don't mind the old style of comics the Belgians had some other great work like Lucky Luke
Also Asterix and Obelix

>manga
Shigurui, Vagabond, Otoyomegatari, Aria and Akira

>>18785003
>>18787042
I refuse to believe anyone who has read even more than 30 books can hold this opinion. Attack on titan was trash, not just in the last arc but literally from the very beginning.
Its characters are an absolute joke. Which would be ok, if they weren't the focus. But Isayama is trying to write a character story with characters that are laughably poorly written.
Sure it is a page-turner and it has some cool, original ideas. It's also all one man's work. But come on.

[Anonymous No.18788757]

Oh yeah forgot to mention but Monster by Naoki Urasawa is unironically better than 90% of classic literature and the top 100 novels of /lit/.
It is a thematic masterpiece.

[Anonymous No.18788788]

>>18788746
> Titans parallel Greek Titans and Norse Ice Giants
> taken from Norse Aurgelmir creation myth
> character background drawn from European folktales
> premise predicated on Paradise Lost
> comments on build up to mass scale industrial warfare, genocide, nationalism, freedom
> none of this has anything to do with literature and it’s trash because I say so

[Anonymous No.18788789]

Only indies have that /lit/ quality (since novels are the work of a single man). Stuff like Dave Sim, Dan Clowes, Chris Ware.
People like to recommend Franco-Belgian comics but that's only because they're embarrassed to recommend an American comic instead- there's a long way of thinking of Asterix and Tintin as some kind of high art, but it's just Archie comics from overseas. No, it's not bad. But it sure as shit ain't "lit".

[Anonymous No.18788793]

>>18784756
hunter x hunter is the closest to literature

[Anonymous No.18788797]

>>18788788
>taking inspiration from old myths automatically makes your story good
>attempting to say something meaningful automatically makes your story good
please never post again

[Anonymous No.18788799]

>>18785299
>watchman
>trash taste

>anything by Alan Moore
>yes
uh

[Anonymous No.18788804]

>>18788797
The story is good but that’s a matter of opinion. Yours doesn’t invalidate the true answer to the question. What I’m gathering is that anything you’d have responded with equates basically to “I like this so therefore it’s literature” which is hair brained retarded to the point it’s surprising I’d have to even point it out.

[Anonymous No.18788819]

>>18788788
all those mythological reference and themes are only explored on the most surface level. The best thing SNK did was create tension, which stops you from thinking about how stupid the plot is most of the time

[Anonymous No.18788822]

>>18788804
>quality of media is ENTIRELY subjective so i am right after all!

[Anonymous No.18788832]

>>18788788
that literally says nothing about quality

literature = MUH MYTHS AND HISTORY
it's about poetic storytelling and eloquently conveying the themes and ideas you are trying to portray to the audience.
SnK did none of that

[Anonymous No.18788845]

>>18788712
I think i understand why your resisting but i disagree.
if you are saying that; the panels and drawn component of the comic book, which pairs with and enhances the written component, is greater than written component in volume and that disqualifies it as literature, then if you only read the words and refuse to look at the panels or deface them, does that mean you are now reading literature?

[Anonymous No.18788855]

>>18785003
Manga is a visual medium. Therefore, art is of foremost importance. However, this manga has artwork that doesn't even look professional. It's like a high school art student scribbling. I look upon Attack on Titan as some sort of solipsistic practical joke that I refuse to laugh at. It would have to have King James Bible level literary merit to be worth reading, but being a Japanese cartoon on netflix popular with teenage boys, I doubt this to be the case.

[Anonymous No.18788877]

>>18788712
if you did that, it would be like reading beowulf (surely is literature) or macbeth (also literature) but not experiencing it as the author intended, as a play or recitation. but the written component is in itself literature and the quality of the costumes and stage design enhance that component to make a greater whole. i would put to you that the drawn component is just an aid to the imagination, like actors, and the written component can be accurately described as literature as per the dictionary definition of literature.

[Anonymous No.18788956]

>>18788757

[Anonymous No.18788958]

>>18784756
BLAME!

[Anonymous No.18789017]

>>18788956
cope

[Anonymous No.18789037]

>>18789017
>>18788956

[Anonymous No.18789044]

>>18789037
>>18789017

[Anonymous No.18789080]

>>18788757
Based

[Anonymous No.18789127]

Black Hole

[Anonymous No.18789173]

>>18787673
How does it feel knowing that Western comics are dying?

[Anonymous No.18789231]

>>18789173
so are books as a medium

[Anonymous No.18789251]

>>18788757
This but Yawara! by Naoki Urasawa

[Anonymous No.18789291]

Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith released this year and I think fits what OP is looking for

[Anonymous No.18789492]

>>18788877
What are you talking about? Beowulf most definitely comes to us in the format of a written work. Watchmen does not, and even will not.

[Anonymous No.18789509]

>>18788819
Another opinion. It mirrors the myths almost exactly in some ways. I suppose you believe the myths themselves are “surface level”.

>>18788822
> I said this is good so it must be objectively so.

>>18788832
You say nothing about quality also. Whether or not you personally like or dislike it is totally irrelevant and says nothing at all about quality actually. The question wasn’t even about quality.

[Anonymous No.18789530]

>>18788845
It doesn’t enhance anything. It’s the fundamental method of storytelling. The written component is what enhances. You could make an entire comic or manga no text at all. What you do is irrelevant. If I look at medieval manuscripts, they’re commonly filled with pictures to illustrate this or that scene. That doesn’t mean they’re first and foremost pictures and not written words. They’re written words supplemented with pictures. Comics and manga are the opposite. You could argue that they work in symphony to create a work that is both picture and text but even then what I said, that it’s not even mostly written text, is still true and always so.

[Anonymous No.18789531]

Oyasumi Punpun is the Notes from the Underground of our time.

[Anonymous No.18789590]

>>18789509
plenty of manga have a shit ton of mythological reference, we just don't get them as much because they are often because they are referencing japanese folklore.
Also what are those exact parallel, Ymir being the name of the giants proginitor while the rest of the story has nothing to do with the mythological figure?

[Anonymous No.18789654]

Seeing some pretty cringy manga recs here. Go read some gekiga.

[Anonymous No.18789779]

Vagabond for me. It's so satisfying to read. Many lessons on patience and failures.

[Anonymous No.18789836]

>>18787685
I cant speak for music but with literature and comic/manga I can sometimes draw a parallel quality wise or feel on some personal level a certain connection between the two. This was the case when I read blood meridian, I catch a lot of shit when I say this but throughout reading the book all I kept saying to myself was "this is the best graphic novel I have ever read" even though it wasn't one, this happen with film too sometimes.

[Anonymous No.18789848]

>>18784756
My cartoony diary desu

[Anonymous No.18789875]

>>18787657
Only good answer ITT

[Anonymous No.18789882]

>>18787673
Manga are comics from Japan. This sin't that hard.

[Anonymous No.18789884]

>>18784756
Berserk

[Anonymous No.18789897]

>>18787657
Actually I change to this from berserk

[Anonymous No.18789898]

>>18788541
My God you're retarded.

[Anonymous No.18789900]

>>18789590
Ymir is Norse Aurgelmir who fell into water in Yggrdrasil that formed the first of the Giants. Krista accepts the gift (apple), mirroring that of Eve in the garden, who partook of the forbidden fruit upon being tempted by the Devil. Eren’s progression is Odinic, in that he sacrifices himself unto himself, in order to obtain divine knowledge (omniscience). Eren is also a Luciferian figure due to his obsession with freedom, to the point that he rushes beyond the walls in the name of freedom, to the point of becoming a devil himself and being literally casted out of Paradis(e). It goes on and on. The list is extensive if you just look for them.

[Anonymous No.18789917]

>>18788793
Kek

[Anonymous No.18789976]

>>18788541
Considering the Japanese call Batman a manga I think we can be fairly sure that's what the translation means.

[Anonymous No.18790106]

I make comics and I write. I really feel like I need to choose and focus on one of them, but I can never choose so I end up doing both or neither. Every day that I manage to work up the focus to arbitrarily choose one or the other, one of these threads about comics, or manga, pop up on /lit/, making me second guess myself again.

[Anonymous No.18790938]

>>18787042
Nah, too much in the last arc was rushed or not given any breathing room.

Zeke's character has no satisfying conclusion to his ideological dispute with Eren
Mikasa's memories somehow get changed despite her being supposedly immune to it
Despite Eren killing most of the population, the Warriors are weirdly kind to him after his death (Pieck, who never even fucking knew Eren outside being a genocidal maniac, says she'd have liked to talk to him in Paths world)
Eren's love for Mikasa was never really hinted at beforehand and was given too much focus in comparison to him doing it for his friends/ Paradis
Historia's character got shafted for some weak natalist sybmolism

The final pages redeemed it a little bit I guess since it showed that what Eren did would obviously not work in the long run, but I still don't think that makes it a satisfying conclusion

[Anonymous No.18791024]

>>18790938
Well done my bets on the guy you responded to didn't even read the manga. Just took the contrarian angle for (you)s.

[Anonymous No.18791055]

asterios polyp

[Anonymous No.18791080]

>>18790938
>Zeke's character has no satisfying conclusion to his ideological dispute with Eren
Zeke has an entire monologue about how he was wrong and why so I don’t know what you’re talking about.
>Mikasa's memories somehow get changed despite her being supposedly immune to it
I don’t follow.
>Despite Eren killing most of the population, the Warriors are weirdly kind to him after his death (Pieck, who never even fucking knew Eren outside being a genocidal maniac, says she'd have liked to talk to him in Paths world)
How can they be kind to him after he’s dead? We’re shown Armin and him having a moment, where Eren explains that he died for the same and Armin affirms it and then we’re shown Mikasa at his grave. The rest of the heroes would presumably have a disposition that’s somewhere in the realm of Armin’s attitudes for obvious reasons.
>Eren's love for Mikasa was never really hinted at beforehand and was given too much focus in comparison to him doing it for his friends/ Paradis
You’re told multiple times in the story that he cares about Mikasa. It’s clear from her back story when he first gives her the scarf, when he says he’ll wrap it around her forever, and just before the final battle with Reinhard and Berthold when he has a monologue about his home and family (referring to Mikasa). The single biggest hint of all came when he asked her plainly what he was to her. All that and you didn’t get it, I don’t know to tell you.
>Historia's character got shafted for some weak natalist sybmolism
Historia wasn’t that important of a character. Just reveal yourself as an Eren and Historia shipper so we can be done with it. I’ve noticed the trends by now of who didn’t like it and why…

What Eren did DID work in the long run. You got filtered. You clearly did not understand the story. Im sorry to say it.

>>18791024
I read the manga, obviously. How else would I know the ending? Either way, it wouldn’t even matter since the story is the same. My position isn’t even contrarian. You just got filtered like plenty of others. The story was wasted on fans who only cared about ships and investing in character headcanon, or else shounen tropes. It deserved better fans.

[Anonymous No.18791157]

Panorama of Hell
Strongest Man Kurosawa
Henshin No News

[Anonymous No.18791198]

>>18784756
>Dotter of her Father's Eyes
One part the autobiography of Joyce scholar's daughter, one part the biography of Joyce's own daughter.
>Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths
Story of Japanese soldiers in WW2, culminating in a battalion being ordered into a suicide charge because they were mistakenly reported KIA and it would dishonor their superiors if they lived. Based on true events, the author only liked because he lost his arm in a bombing shortly beforehand.
>Rusty Brown
The stories of five people somehow connected to the titular character, told across their lifetimes. Really an amazing book, I can't describe it in any way that does it justice.
>Daytripper
Stories from different points in a man's life. In one he's a college student who's just gone through a break up, in another a grown man who has just lost his father, or a child experiencing his first crush. Each one ends with him dying at that point. It's about life and how we don't know how much time we have.
>Kinski
From the back cover, "The story of a boy and his dog. Only the boy is a traveling salesman and the dog doesn't belong to him." Another one I can't explain well. Good because of how it tells the story rather than what that story is actually about.

[Anonymous No.18791210]

>>18791080
>Zeke has an entire monologue about how he was wrong and why so I don’t know what you’re talking about.
I don't think his monologue was very well written. There was an interesting contrast between Zeke's antinatalism and Eren's belief that "You are free", but instead of focusing on that it just has Armin talk to Zeke before he decides quickly that "damn u right".
Him and his brother never even get a decent conclusion with one another
>I don’t follow.
Mikasa is an Ackerman and should be immune to memory shenanigans by the FT, but in the last chapter it's said that she (and all the other main cast) had their memories "restored" when Eren died
>How can they be kind to him after he’s dead?
"Eren, what a man you are..." "We never asked for your help, you reckless idiot", and "Yeah... I wanted to speak to him to" are all lines from the Warriors after the Titans are wiped out.
The only Warrior that would make sense to be sympathetic to Eren was Reiner. Annie and Pieck have zero fucking reason to think kindly of the one who just killed most of humanity and almost their entire families.
>You’re told multiple times in the story that he cares about Mikasa
Caring about her is different from undying romantic devotion though. He cared about all his friends and Paradis itself, and while EMA were clearly the closest relationship in the cast, there wasn't much to imply romantic feelings. Eren always treated Mikasa more like an overprotective mom than anything else, and if Yams wanted his love for her to be a driving force for him it should've been brought up well before the final chapter.
>Just reveal yourself as an Eren and Historia shipper so we can be done with it. I’ve noticed the trends by now of who didn’t like it and why…
I don't care for ships. Eren could've been in love with nobody in the story and it would've probably been a smarter move.
And Historia started the story as a nobody, rose to prominence for one arc, and was then just teased as a babymaker for the last part of the story. Farmer-kun isn't even named so I don't get the significance of her pregnancy outside of, again, weak symbolism.
>What Eren did DID work in the long run
So his nation being destroyed years after his death because of old hatred was all part of his plan, just so his friends could live a peaceful life for a few years? Bravo for him then then, but that makes the message of the story muddled and unsatisfying.

Keep in mind I'm not one of those who is still seething over the end to the end of time. I read it each month, was disappointed, and then moved on with my life. The butthurt some still have for it is hilarious to me regardless of my opinion on it.

[Anonymous No.18791255]

>>18784756
Requiem: Vampire Chevalier

[Anonymous No.18791708]

>>18787517
To clarify >>18787568, when people say "literature," it can mean either writing broadly or a heightened category of literary arts, in which great (or aspirationally great) writers compete with the masters of the past. /lit/ is specifically about the latter, more narrow category.

With comics, most are bottom of the barrel trash for children. The dumbest, most formulaic stories, dreadful dialogue, made entertaining on a very basic level by wacky antics that make you go "DUDE! He has an arm that turns into a helicopter that can travel through time! He just chopped that guy's head off with the the blades, 10 minutes ago!" But this does not mean a /lit/-tier piece of writing cannot be enhanced by visuals, and some artists do manage to pull off both the writing and the visual art, making substantial use of the comics medium. That's not really /lit/, just a top-tier comic, but it could be of interest to /lit/ posters, who would otherwise never look at /co/ or learn about this material.

[Anonymous No.18791883]

>>18789531
Came here to say Goodnight Punpun. Cheers anon

[Anonymous No.18792233]

>>18791210
stop replying to this retard?
He literally doesn't know the basics of writing and structure

[Anonymous No.18792238]

>>18791708
true but
>That's not really /lit/, just a top-tier comic, but it could be of interest to /lit/ posters, who would otherwise never look at /co/ or learn about this material.
/co/ and /a/ are just mentally ill children who don't know shit about writing or storytelling. Literally 0 chance I'm going to /a/ to talk about an anime or manga and have a million moefags call an actual decent show they've never seen pretentious

[Anonymous No.18792244]

>>18784756
Cerebus, easily

[Anonymous No.18792262]

Homunculus

[Anonymous No.18792954]

>>18784756

[Anonymous No.18793375]

>>18789531
Crap.

[Anonymous No.18793413]

>>18792233
…but you do right? Tell me about the monomyth already you pseud.

[Anonymous No.18793777]

>>18784756
Moore's Swamp Thing and From Hell, as well as most comics Alan Moore was involved with, especially V for Vendetta and Watchmen, as some have already mentioned, but also Promethea and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The Sandman, Hellboy and Preacher count too, so does Miller's The Dark Knight and Maus.

[Anonymous No.18793850]

>>18787685
Literary merit, anon, that's what people mean when they compare films, video games or comics to great novels and want something of that level of quality.

[Anonymous No.18793851]

>>18787399
>Tokyo Ghoul
CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWLING IN MY SKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN

[Anonymous No.18793910]

>>18792954
gigabased. Although the anime is great too. Dezaki was a pioneer.

[Anonymous No.18793928]

>nobody has posted the actual /lit/ manga
it almost feels like poetry.

[Anonymous No.18793944]

>>18793928
Watched the anime any details I missed out on?

[Anonymous No.18793954]

>>18793944
Not really to be honest, in fact I prefer the anime over the manga.
The really did a wonderful job with the adaptation. The sound design and music really added to the atmosphere.

Either way easily my top 3 anime. Solid 9

[Anonymous No.18793958]

>>18793944
No, it's better as an actual show than a comic.

[Anonymous No.18793963]

>>18784756
Monster.

[Anonymous No.18793965]

>>18793963
Urusawa in general, as well, 20th Century Boys being his best work to date.

[Anonymous No.18793972]

>>18793965
Should I read that? I really enjoyed Monster (manga and show). It was my favorite show until Legend of the Galactic Heroes and stays my favorite manga.

[Anonymous No.18793992]

>>18793972
Of course you should.

[Anonymous No.18793996]

>>18793992
Thanks for the recommendation then.

[Anonymous No.18794009]

Circle vs. Square. It's an old webcomic but it was funny and had good humor.
I take umbrage!!

[Anonymous No.18794197]

>>18793965
IMO Monster is by far his magnum opus. Nothing comes close despite the rest being fantastic too.

Monster is same tier as best of classic literature to me.

[Anonymous No.18794438]

>>18792954
CLOSS COUNTAAAAAAA

[Anonymous No.18794521]

>>18784756