Some good picks, some I've not read.

I'd include:

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - I love how it expanded from a Victorian lit Avengers to full bonkers Alan Moore.

Scalped - I re-read this recently. Absolutely love it, the art is fantastic and although you kind kind of tell Jason Aaron didn't know how it was going to end when he started it, it's like a top notch HBO crime drama.

Fury: My War Gone By - Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov are a great pairing, this story shows them both at their best.

1. The Adventures of Luther Arkwright by Talbot
2. V for Vendetta by Moore/Lloyd
3. Peter Pan by Loisel
4. Palestina by Sacco
5. Watchmen by Moore/Gibbons
6. Alice in Sunderland by Talbot
7. Planetary by Ellis/Cassaday
8. Cages by McKean
9. Love and Rockets: Heartbreak Soup by G.Hernandez
10. Sin City - That Yellow Bastard by Miller
11. Enigma by Milligan/Fegredo
12. Jimmy Corrigan by Ware
13. The Incal by Jodorovski/Moebius
14. MBDL - My Badly Drawn Life (LMVDM - La Mia Vita Disegnata Male) by GIPI
15. Habibi by Thompson

The fact Invincible is the only Superhero comic they could read says it all really. But everyone gets an opinion.

Hard agreement. It’s actually the only signed comic or graphic novel that I own, via an odd series of events that originated with my worship of it.

They’ve been collected in many different ways, so look for the following specific stories within whatever collections are available to you.

“Sopa de Gran Pena (Heartbreak Soup)” is the easy choice for Gilbert.

Jaime’s a little more complicated. His earliest Locas stories are rather primordial and superficially crude (even though his genius is already burbling furiously). So I always tell people to start with “100 Rooms”. It’s still a little crude-looking (primarily because of the lettering), but it’ll warm you up sufficiently for “Las Mujeres Perdidas (The Lost Women)”, which, if you ask me, is where Locas just takes off and soars.

Yep. Collected edition of the first two and Black Dossier by DC, the rest by Knockabout. Amazon have them all available, as do other less monomaniacal booksellers I'm sure.

I like to start from the beginning.. so "Maggie the Mechanic" for Jaime... and "Heartbreak Soup" for Gilbert. Each of their decades long ongoing stories are stunningly (all the adjectives you can think of).. its a massive undertaking, but well worth the time.

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman is one of the best pieces of literature I’ve ever read. Lucifer by Mike Carey is also right there.

But what I would recommend is Avengers and New Avengers by Jonathan Hickman, it is the quintessential modern super hero epic. His Secret Wars is my favorite Marvel event.

It's gotta be Swamp Thing by Alan Moore. Even thinking about it gave me chills.

The Spectre by John Ostrander.

That run had everything from horror to epic battles to social commentary to personal drama. And it had a solid beginning and end so very easy to get into for new readers. Everything about Spectre and Jim Corrigan was explained well.

Plus, the covers were absolutely gorgeous and the art was very atmospheric.

Cliche to say but it's still watchmen

Same! I was like, why do I feel like this towards a fictional character, because Neil Gaiman is a master writer. Vol. 7-10 are so damn good.

Definitely my fave Batman story. I wish I could find the Absolute Edition!

My all-time favorites. Only Fables is still going.

1. From Hell (self-contained)
2. Daredevil by Bendis/Maleev (series)
3. Fables (series)
4. Blankets (self-contained)
5. Maus (self-contained)

1. Alan Moore‘s run on Swamp Thing

2. Sandman series by Neil Gaiman

3. Watchmen by Alan Moore

4. Arkham Asylum by Grant Morrison

5. Sin City by Frank Miller

I have seen Invincible recommended on like 7 different sub-reddit's in the last 20 minutes. Is it really that good?

I absolutely love Northlanders. The first arc is fucking amazing. The rest of them aren't as awesome, but are still really really good (Siege of Paris is probably my second fave)

In no particular order because I’m not in a position to do that right now: (adding the format in which I read them)

Black Hammer (series - Library editions)

Eight Billion Genies (12 issue hardcover)

Gideon Falls (series - two hardcovers)

Promethea ( series - three hardcovers)

The Human Target (series - two hardcovers)

Most of these are more recent reads, I’m sure my list would be different a few months from now.

I kept my Invincible off my list specifically for that reason, to me graphic novels kind of excludes continuous multi-arc stories, although Invincible has been collected as a series of graphic novels so I suppose it could technically count.

Best Graphic Novel: Batman: Arkham Asylum/Silver Surfer: Requiem

Best Runs: Saga of the Swamp Thing/Brian Micheal Bendis’s Daredevil

Best Story: Kingdom Come/Time Runs Out & Secret Wars (2015)

Hickman's Marvel Epic from Secret Warriors through Secret Wars

I revisit the Annihilation series from marvel yearly

Runs?

Uncanny X-Men/X-Men by Chris Claremont

Fantastic Four by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

Daredevil by Frank Miller

Captain America by Ed Brubaker

Fantastic Four by John Byrne

The Spirit by Will Eisner

Police Comics, with Jack Cole

Swamp Thing by Alan Moore

JLI/JLE by Kieth Giffen

Sandman by Neil Gaiman

DC:

Geoff John’s/Peter Tomasi’s Green Lantern/Green Lantern Corps

Green Lantern/ Green Arrow By Dennis O’Neil

Tales of the Green Lantern Corps

Justice League: Generation Lost

DC: The New Frontier

Icon-everything of its original run that’s on DCUI is super good (it’s owned by DC)

Injustice

Marvel:

Frank Miller’s Daredevil (it’s the only Marvel book I’ve read. I really like it though)

Others:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Tom Waltz

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird

Mike Mignola’s Hellboy

Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo

Wonderful. A vast and insidious conspiracy.

its hard not to own this in all formats.

Beautiful

It sure is

I had this original trade (first printing). A friend asked to borrow it, and I gently reminded her how this was an important book. She was cute and flirted with me a bit, and I loaned it out. Came back with a coffee cup mug stain on the cover and internal damage. She bought me a replacement that was a current printing.

We are not friends anymore.

This is the right answer. PAD was a talented and prolific novelist besides being an excellent comic writer.

Greg Rucka is a solid novelist. His Batman: No Man's Land novelization was quite good.

Imzadi was great. Been a long time since I read it.

His (Rucka) prose tie-ins to the Queen and Country series are also great and give more depth to the characters.

Sir Apropos of Nothing (and it‘s sequels) is great. The last one crushed my soul for a long time.

RIP, Peter, nothing but love from me.

Never read them but Mike Carey’s novels are supposed to be good.

His books “Oracle Year” and “Anyone” are also absolutely stellar novels I was unable to put down. Each took me less than 5-10 days to complete because they both were such page-turners.

I bought his newest one “The Endless Vessel” the day it was released simply for how amazing his track record is (in both mediums!) but unfortunately haven’t had time to read it yet.

His book, The Girl with All the Gifts, is one of the most original zombie books I've ever read.

Yep! His Star Trek New Frontier series is a lot of fun, too.

I bought it back when or was being published monthly. Ugh…. It’s basically Django Unchained remade with Zorro instead of Schultz. Erasing a bit Django’s independence he had earned in the movie, and getting him through a similar arc again. TBH I haven’t read it since (so obviously it’s been a while), but that is what I remember from it

It's worth mentioning that the whole Zorror run up to this event is totally kick ass and worth reading since >!Zorro dies in this!<

I think Matt Wagner was more responsible for the voice in that series. Tarantino offered up the plot but didn’t really write it. Cool series, but I wouldn’t say Tarantino wrote it.

One cool thing about the series, that at least in the single issues, they provide a track list for a soundtrack if you want to cobble together a playlist as you read. But again, not really sure how involved Tarantino was in the picking of those tunes

It’s free on the kindle unlimited app, allegedly

I was so excited to get my hands on this.

It... did not live up to my expectations.

The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman is one of the best things I’ve ever read period.

If you’re into folklore, give Hellboy a chance, the art style is unique and the author (Mike Mignola) is extremely well-read and imaginative.

Edit: Frank Miller’s “Sin City” is brilliant both in terms of dialog and the art style is just stunning.

Saga is a must. I adore the series.

I am also reading The Sandman series and definitely recommend if you want something “classic” and unusual.

Came here to say this. Best Graphic Novel I've ever read.

Fun Home by Alison Bechtel is the first graphic novel I’ve read and I LOVED it. Had seen it on Broadway, and novel enhanced my memories of it. It’s very different from what you usually see in this genre - about a girl who learns early on she’s gay, and then finds out her father is gay also - but worth reading IMHO.

Sweet! My local library has it. Should I start with Volume One?

I second this. The author tells about how he tries to get along with his dad, a concentration camp survivor, who clearly was damaged by the experience. He begins interviewing his dad about the experiences. The Nazi's are drawn as cats, and the Jews/victims as mice. Read both volumes. They are outstanding and prize winning.

We3 by Grant Morrison. It's nuts in all the best ways.

The Frank Book - Jim Woodring One of my favorite things of any medium ever.

Pim and Francie: The Golden Bear Days - Al Columbia Not a traditional graphic novel but it paints such a creepy picture that I will never forget.

David Boring - Daniel Clowes I thought putting the entire 8-Ball collection might be cheating, but this one made an impact on me.

The Incal - Jodorowsky/Mobius The Fifth Element is one of my favourite movies so to discover The Incal is like finding the extended universe filled with sequels, prequels, and spin offs.

Sixteen Miles To Merricks - Barnaby Ward I don't see a lot of talk about this one, but it's just got a certain charm that I really like.

The Goon: Chinatown and the Mystery of Mr. Wicker - Eric Powell If I had to single out a certain part of The Goon I guess it would be this one but all of it is pretty great.

Jellyfist - Vasquez/Goldberg This might be a stretch to call it a GN but I love it. I love the work of Vasquez but this is just one of the funniest things I've found in the comics medium.

The Maxx - Sam Keith I love the cartoon and I was surprised to find it only scratched the surface, well worth checking out even if you've aready seen the series.

Hellboy: Right Hand of Doom - Mike Mignola This was my entry point but Strange Place was also very good. What am I saying it's all good.

Southern Bastards - Jason Aaron/Jason Latour Was a simple recommendation from a shop worker and I was surprised how good it was considering the subject matter. Just pure compelling stuff that I'm sure will be a Netflix/HBO show in the near future.

It's a fairly short book written by Morrison and artfully illustrated by Frank Quitely. It revolves around cyborg animals. It's kind of crazy but also very emotional

1. Watchmen
2. Hellboy in Hell
3. V for Vendetta
4. Incal
5. Kingdom Come
6. Batman the Long Halloween
7. Planetary
8. God Loves Man Kills
9. Saga of Swamp Thing
10. League of Extrordinary Gentlemen

Ten is definitely hard for me

1. All-star Superman

2. Hickman’s avengers run

3. Kingdom Come

4. Planetary

5. Sinestro Corp war

6. Y-the last man

7. Black Monday Murders

8. Wicked and Divine

9. POX/HOX

10. Morrison’s JLA

Honorable mention: Nameless (been thinking about this book lately)

• The Sandman
• Watchmen
• Y: The Last Man
• Transmeteopolitan
• Saga
• The Wicked + The Divine
• WE3
• Chew
• The Walking Dead
• DMZ