The Ultimates, Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch's revamped vers of the Avengers is excellent. Highly recommended.

almighty wrote:The conflict arises when you find out that he's in fact in love with just one woman

what a selfish bastard.
see this is why i hate men.....

Peripatetic wrote:Garth Ennis' Preacher.

Read the entire series.

And then read it again.

I've done that personally about 10 times. Until the End of the World makes me cry just about every time. Same with the climax of War in the Sun.

tommydski wrote:

almighty wrote:The conflict arises when you find out that he's in fact in love with just one woman

what a selfish bastard.
see this is why i hate men.....

Lately i've been thinking of what if all the women in the world were wiped out rather then the men in that story line.....doesn't bear thinking about really.

Little Nemo in Slumberland.

Fucking gorgeous. The craftsmanship alone that went into this...wow. And all before the First World War! Proof that Superman was maybe one of the worst things to happen to the medium.

Just look:







The recent hardbound collection is essential. It preserves the original size of the pages (1 full newspaper page each!) making for one gigantic comic book.

Ennis did Judge Dredd for a while didn't he?

I remember reading something called Revere in 2000AD years ago, which i remember had amazing art work (i think it was John Smith, and Simon Harrison?)... I can't remember the story. I just remember a part where the main guy swallows broken glass, and puked it back up with stomach acid into someone's face...

Jeremy wrote:on this topic - has anyone been able to get their hands on any of the rapeman comics? i've only had the opportunity to read one once and it's near impossible to find on the internet.
anyone?

I've never found any of the manga, but I have a bootleg VHS copy of one of the live-action movies. I think it's the first one. I would assume that the animated version is significantly more explicit.

I recommend the Lone Wolf and Cub and Lady Snowblood manga series. I strongly recommend Raijin's big, full-color "Master Edition" series of my all-time favorite manga, Fist of the North Star, with the caveat that the company went out of business after publishing 10 of the series' 21 volumes. Still, what's out there is good readin'.

I have also been enjoying Zak Sally's latest (last?) Recidivist and John Porcellino's Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man compilation.

placeholder wrote:John Porcellino's Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man

All of his stuff is worth reading, but this is especially great.

Some others that haven't been mentioned:

Anything by Jason (from Norway) - but especially Hey, Wait...

Dang! by Martin Cendreda

Pogo Stick by Al Columbia and Ethan Persoff

American Elf by James Kochalka

everything by Harvey Pekar

Tony Millionare - Mackies - Billy Hazelnuts

http://www.maakies.com/

Michael Kupperman - Tales designed to Thrizzle - Fantagraphics

Sam Henderson - Magic Whistle

http://www.indyworld.com/henderson/

Lauren Weinstein - Girls World and Vinnyland, Goddess of WAr

http://www.vineyland.com/

in the mainstream, batman year one
slightly better preacher

but most of all, maus by art spiegelman, which is fantastic in a way no other comic I've read has been