I'd recommend the Hilda comics if you want a short and cute and light read
If you want something with absolutely beautiful art, I'd recommend 'Step by Bloody Step'. If you want something with absolutely beautiful art, but also capeshit related, I'd recommend Alan Moore's 'Miracleman' run.
Let me tell you the secret.
Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, and pre-9/11 Frank Miller, Bone, Hellboy etc. Then do what I do and just jump into manga, and just dip your toes into comics once in awhile when you see something interesting. Manga is just Japanese comics. Also isn't dominated by two companies promoting superheros with stories written by 10 different people who all are trying to top the last writer with no direction. Manga has 1 guy or girl writing their full vision to it's fullest, and it really helped me get out of my disdain for how comics didn't really live up to movies or video games. Check out Berserk, Dorohedoro, Akira, JoJo, Vagabond, Vinland Saga, Dai Dark, Devilman Classic, Witch Hat Atelier, The Zelda Twilight Princess Manga, and sooooo many others. I'd say something like Devilman Classic, Berserk, Dorohedoro, or Akira is more in line with American comics (and also some of my favorites), so check those out. Right now I'm reading Fire Punch and when I finished that, I'm gonna be checking out Franken Fran. Even if Manga is filled with stuff I hate 0 interest in, it also has stuff that feels tailored made for me. Comics I feel like finding anything halfway decent is torturous, but I'm also a type of guy who reads anything that might interest me just to try something new once in awhile. Manga guys who piss on comic fans, and comic fans who piss on manga, and lit readers who piss on both are all the losers in the end in my eyes, cause they're missing out on their next favorite series by thinking they're better then people just like them.
The only problem is that as a guy who reads both comics and manga switching between reading left to right and right to left fricks me up lol like it did here and here.
The Goon is peak comics, dumb as frick setting and pulp antics married to genuinely wrenching character drama, all tied together by incredibly solid art.
No Tsutomu Nihei recommendations?? No BLAME! mentions???? Double shame!
No Lone Wolf and Cub recommendations????
No Alita Battle Angel mentions????
DorohedoroAnon here and Ohhh frick me, I forgot to include those bangers. All very good options. Very shameful of me to forgot those classics too, I just honestly listed stuff that I've actually have on my shelf / that came to mind, but those are fantastic options too. Honestly, there's so much great manga out there right now that I'd probably run out characters listing them all in a single Cinemaphile post.
The Goon is peak comics, dumb as frick setting and pulp antics married to genuinely wrenching character drama, all tied together by incredibly solid art.
Lightbringer
ok so the joker? he's so crazy, it's insane
Thunderbeast was alright.
Why don't the pupils in his eyebrow-eyes move?
Kaijumax and The wrong earth
I'd recommend the Hilda comics if you want a short and cute and light read
If you want something with absolutely beautiful art, I'd recommend 'Step by Bloody Step'. If you want something with absolutely beautiful art, but also capeshit related, I'd recommend Alan Moore's 'Miracleman' run.
Let me tell you the secret.
Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, and pre-9/11 Frank Miller, Bone, Hellboy etc. Then do what I do and just jump into manga, and just dip your toes into comics once in awhile when you see something interesting. Manga is just Japanese comics. Also isn't dominated by two companies promoting superheros with stories written by 10 different people who all are trying to top the last writer with no direction. Manga has 1 guy or girl writing their full vision to it's fullest, and it really helped me get out of my disdain for how comics didn't really live up to movies or video games. Check out Berserk, Dorohedoro, Akira, JoJo, Vagabond, Vinland Saga, Dai Dark, Devilman Classic, Witch Hat Atelier, The Zelda Twilight Princess Manga, and sooooo many others. I'd say something like Devilman Classic, Berserk, Dorohedoro, or Akira is more in line with American comics (and also some of my favorites), so check those out. Right now I'm reading Fire Punch and when I finished that, I'm gonna be checking out Franken Fran. Even if Manga is filled with stuff I hate 0 interest in, it also has stuff that feels tailored made for me. Comics I feel like finding anything halfway decent is torturous, but I'm also a type of guy who reads anything that might interest me just to try something new once in awhile. Manga guys who piss on comic fans, and comic fans who piss on manga, and lit readers who piss on both are all the losers in the end in my eyes, cause they're missing out on their next favorite series by thinking they're better then people just like them.
The only problem is that as a guy who reads both comics and manga switching between reading left to right and right to left fricks me up lol like it did here and here.
It's so nice to see someone that still has an honest flame of passion for manga. Mine burned out years ago.
no Masamune Shirow recommendations?
No Tsutomu Nihei recommendations?? No BLAME! mentions???? Double shame!
No Lone Wolf and Cub recommendations????
No Alita Battle Angel mentions????
I'm seconding this Alita Battle Angel recommendation and also recommending Siegfried as a god comic.
DorohedoroAnon here and Ohhh frick me, I forgot to include those bangers. All very good options. Very shameful of me to forgot those classics too, I just honestly listed stuff that I've actually have on my shelf / that came to mind, but those are fantastic options too. Honestly, there's so much great manga out there right now that I'd probably run out characters listing them all in a single Cinemaphile post.
The Goon is peak comics, dumb as frick setting and pulp antics married to genuinely wrenching character drama, all tied together by incredibly solid art.
Spaceman
Watchmen.
Red Sonja (2005)
what do you mean by "good"? Is your definition of "good comic" some edgy Siwekenowitz looking Batman shite????
You don't have the answer.
Not the answer you wanna hear, no.
Out Of Placers
I'm reading Tom Strong. It's good.
It's true.
I read RASL by Jeff Smith recently. Pretty good short comic.
Bumping this thread because it's the only one that didn't make me feel miserable today.
current fantastic 4 run
You ruined the thread.
yes and youre a redditor homosexual trying very hard to fit in
Local Man
My Bad
Wrong Earth
Murder Falcon
Uber
murder falcon
Maybe you should actually try reading some actual comics
I don't care about comics that much, but Kabuki is excellent.
pay for it
The Kill Lock.