Advice For Newcomers: What Stories/Storylines would you suggest they read?

[rodan57]

Buy a beat up Ditko Spider-Man between #18-#32. Best $20-$30 dollars you could spend on a book and you'll be hooked on the great art, storyline and get to revel in the period: letters pages and house ads.

 

Not as cheap as a copy of Essentials, but a wonderfully addictive experience.

[llll-migration]

Wimbledon Green: The Greatest Comic Book Collector In The World

by Seth (Chris Ware's pal.)

 

 

This may help people understand "Our Thing."

 

(The Goon is always good for a couple of sick laughs. Preacher, too.)

[sborock]

The Pro!

 

Airplane scene is classic!

[AGGIEZ]

Oooh, ooh, Locke & Key was great!!

 

Obviously Watchmen is a classic and a must read.

 

Again, The Walking Dead is freaking GOOD!

[Zonker]

I don't think anyone has yet mentioned WE3

[sborock]

I don't think anyone has yet mentioned WE3

(thumbs u

[EvilAsh]

The Walking Dead

Y: The Last Man

Runaways Vol. 1

Locke and Key

Invincible

Fear Agent

 

(thumbs u

[Monstro]

personally i don't think the Watchmen or Dark Knight Returns would be good for first time comic readers. i think you need to me a comic book aficionado to get/understand those too.

 

 

[Lebowski]

I know some of these have been mentioned several times (but they bare repeating and all are available in trades that you can pick up cheap):

 

- The Goon (best comic currently being published, IMO)

- The Walking Dead

- Y: The Last Man

- Sandman

- Preacher

- Transmetropolitan

 

Best thing about all these books? No convoluted, confusing, and downright stupid multiverse, cross-over, re-boot, the-same-character-in-five-titles-a-month going on in these titles. Just good, old-fashioned reading! (thumbs u

[Lebowski]

RASL is pretty awesome so far.

 

gotta disagree w/ this suggestion- while the story is certainly intriguing imagine this scenario-

 

"here read these two comics"

 

ten minutes later "wow, that is cool,when can i read more"

 

"uh, 5 months from now"

 

I have to agree with this. I read the first issue in anticipation and was really let down by the lack of depth to it. It's tough to stay excited about a story that's only released four times a year that gives so little in terms of reading time.

[awe4one]

Astro City...superheroes without the continuity to confuse newcomers...

 

Jim

[Doctor Svord]

Batman:Year One

Daredevil: Born Again

 

I've loaned those GN's out to non-comic/used to read comics a million years ago people and they've enjoyed them.