What comic books should I be reading?

Try Infidel, from Image. It’s written by Pornsak Pichetshote, who was one the Vertigo editors by the time you were reading its titles. Really impressive stuff.

If you liked Saga, I’d also suggest Y - The Last Man, also written by BKV.

And, please, read any stuff written by Ed Brubaker (Criminal, Fatale, etc). The guy is a hell of a writer.

And, of course, Grant Morrison: Happy!, from Image, is a really nice limited series written by him.

Another one I liked that has no e-version:

The only series you need to read:

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I second your second. Another I should hunt down further collections of at the library.

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Sounds like anyone homophobic should read it!

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So good. Character is great, stories are funny and poignant and important, and I just can’t get enough of Adrian Alphona’s little grace notes and running gags in the backgrounds.

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A weird-ass six-issue run I happened across a while ago, worth it just for the crazy art and “Zardoz” references.

ETA: here’s the part I was remembering

Zardoz? This Zardoz?

The world needs a Titan of Braavos version of Zardoz; take your pick of harbors, or maybe put one in every harbor. I predict an awestruck world would finally find peace.

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It’s a very thinly veiled reference (the protagonist finds diversion by regularly re-watching a schocky sci-fi movie called Yardzo) but yeah, same deal.

Point of order: “Zardoz” was a big flying head that spat guns and ammo. Sean Connery’s character was named “Zed” (or just “monster”).

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My mistake.

I’ve never felt worthy enough to watch the movie.I’m saving it for a distant point in the future when I’ve accomplished my lifework and can at last enter the company of the elect.

Love that photo though.

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God damn it… this thread is like an alcoholic touring the Budweiser Plant. I am this close to jumping into a beer vat :wink:

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Duh.

Also:

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What we need is a BoingBoing Comic Store chain, obviously.

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I have read the three editions of the Arab of the Future released so far. The way each one of them ends, with a tremendous cliffhanger, leaves you crazy for the next number.

The boy’s father is a very complex subject. You can not be intrigued by him. He is controversial, insecure, daydreamer, repressed, dicatatorial… The mother seems to be handling well all the twists and turns of fate and supports her husband, but I do not know, I think she will get angry.

I can not believe I forgot about Love and Rockets. The Hernadez brothers are very good. What do you prefer? Palormar or Las Locas?

I read a review for “Marble Season” here in Boingboing some years ago. I wish I could import it, but there are many comic books and so little time (and money) to read them all. My wish list is very long, and after this thread, it got even bigger because of all those suggestions.

Finally, BB Store things I could get behind…

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OH wait, two things I read with my kiddo… no three things I read with my kiddo, and I think 2 of them are from BB recommends:

Zita the Space Girl Trilogy (Anything by Ben Hatke is good!)

Phoebe and her Unicorn series (note you can read this for free on the webcomic.)

And Amulet

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Trees and Injection and Saga are my top ones too.

Here are some others:

Paper Girls (same writer as Saga)
Sex Criminals (come for the comic, stay for the letters section)
Copperhead (like the first 10 or so.)
The Wicked and The Divine
Wytches (put out by Image several years ago. the only horror comic I found scary)
Spider-Woman 1-17 2016-17 run where she’s pregnant.
I like the Archie Horror stuff: Afterlife with Archie, Jughead: The Hunger and Sabrina the Teenage Witch

But really, can we just get some more Injection please. Like right away. I haven’t read anything better than that.

Oh yeah, the first million of these were good. I need to finish this one.

Right!

Actually scary.

I liked Preacher but the gay stuff didn’t age well. Literally every LGBT character in the series is a rapist, a depraved pervert who dabbles in bestiality and/or pedophilia, a prostitute or some combination of the above.

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