Decades’ of comic-reading made me pick up 500 Essential Graphic Novels the other day. Two hundred, I thought to myself, I bet I’ve read two hundred easy.
I barely managed ninety*.
And that was by including characters I knew I’d read but couldn’t exactly recall if I’d read the title listed in the book. I definitely remember reading Lucky Luke and A.B.C. Warriors but I can’t recall specifically chuckling over A Lucky Luke Adventure: Billy the Kid or acting-out mek-carnage from A.B.C. Warriors: The Black Hole.
Meantime, I plan to work my way through a list that includes -
- Bryan Talbot‘s Alice in Sunderland<,/li>
- Dave Sim‘s towering Cerebus,
- Frank Stack‘s The New Adventures of Jesus: Second Coming,
- Keiji Nakazawa‘s Barefoot Gen series,
- Roberta Gregory‘s Life’s a Bitch: The Bitchy Bitch Chronicles,
- Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch‘s The Ultimates,
- and, based on its premise and the cover art, Jason Shiga‘s Bookhunter:
* Eighteen lousy percent. At least I did better with the IMDb top 250 list, making 67.6% (though I suspect if that list went to 500, my batting average would drop significantly). (Film Addict link courtesy of Dan Slevin.)
Did you catch Watchmen, Mamea?
not yet, JW. but ‘m a-hopin’-wishin’-'n’-prayin’ to see it sharpish.
So good to enjoy such a entertaining post that does not fall back on base posturing to get the idea covered. Thanks for an enjoyable read.
thank you.
you’ve reminded me to request Bookhunter from the local library.