Quote: sootyj @ July 24 2010, 8:50 PM BSTNeil Gaiman's Sandman
Agreed, you'd love it too Scats (I think).
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Is that a long series or? Amazon is unhelpful.
Yes, but each volume is self contained.
Start at the beginning though, if you do.
Ok, I will have to have a think about those though, as they seem expensive-ish. 
Start with Preludes and Nocturnes when you do, that's the first.
Yeah I saw that. It seems cheap enough to test the water with, too. Always a bonus.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ July 24 2010, 9:54 PM BSTOk, I will have to have a think about those though, as they seem expensive-ish.
It's been reprinted theres always a cheapo one. That and libraries stock them, you have no excuse!
A Game of you, isn't the first part but it's a good start and a crackerjack story
Dolls House is good, but is the only onethat's quite gory
Season of the mists is also very good.
But Sandman is probably better than Watchmen.
ignore anyone who suggests you start with the books about death, they're strictly ok
Another goody is Y the Last man, crackerjack but you have to read it all and it is huge (though I was hanging around Forbidden Planet as each new epsiode came out).
I need to try and find a good library near me to be honest, or find out if my uni library is indie enough to have comics in it. 
Quote: Nil Putters @ July 24 2010, 10:06 PM BSTStar with Preludes and Nocturnes when you do, that's the first.
It's the first book, but it's definitely the weakest. It's much closer to a regular DC comic and there's alot of annoying crap that's clearly there to please nervous DC editors (Batman, Martian manhunter puuuhhhleaze).
Also it's rather gory
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ July 24 2010, 10:14 PM BSTI need to try and find a good library near me to be honest, or find out if my uni library is indie enough to have comics in it.
Bournemouth library has it!
Neil Gaiman is respectable enough to go where the books go
Quote: sootyj @ July 24 2010, 10:15 PM BSTIt's the first book, but it's definitely the weakest.
Yes, but if you're gonna start you should start at the beginning.
Quote: sootyj @ July 24 2010, 10:15 PM BSTBournemouth library has it!
Neil Gaiman is respectable enough to go where the books go
I'm in London though, and Bournemouth is quite big on graphic design, is it not? One of the unis there has at least one course on it.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ July 24 2010, 10:21 PM BSTI'm in London though, and Bournemouth is quite big on graphic design, is it not? One of the unis there has at least one course on it.
It would have done me good as a youth to know Londoners thought my humble seaside town more sophisticated.
Get down your library they are treasure houses! (until Davey C turns them into brothels or workhouses)
Quote: Nil Putters @ July 24 2010, 10:20 PM BSTYes, but if you're gonna start you should start at the beginning.
I dunno I rather liked piecing together the story like a puzzle. And the John Constantine lite bits might have put me off.
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Quote: sootyj @ July 24 2010, 10:23 PM BSTAnd the John Constantine lite bits might have put me off.
I've just ploughed my way through the first 250 issues of Hellblazer. They don't half chop and change writers on that series and, oddly, some that you would expect to be brilliant (Garth Ennis, Brian Azarello) weren't as good as some others I hadn't really heard of. I think Jamie Delano and Mike Carey's runs were the best.
I've just read the 11th volume of Walking Dead and it's staying awesome.
I'm now halfway through something called 'Darkest Night'. I tend to prefer DC to Marvel but the problem with both is I spend the whole book thinking, "who the hell is that, what are their powers and what the hell is their history?"
Give me a decent self-contained story any day, rather than all these capes and tights types.
If I go past Forbidden Planet early enough tomorrow night, I might look for the latest Criminal Macabre or Hack/Slash.
And I'llsay it again, as nobody else seems to have mentioned it - Transmetropolitan is one of the most amazing series I have ever read.
Quote: Afinkawan @ July 28 2010, 1:34 PM BSTI've just ploughed my way through the first 250 issues of Hellblazer.
How long did that take?