Top 5 Graphic Novels/TPBs/Collected Editions/etc - What are your favorites?

[Prince Namor]

Limiting to just ones I own currently:

 

Absolute New Frontier - Darwyn Cooke

Parker: Martini Edition - Darwyn Cooke

Locas - Jaime Hernandez

Marvel Graphic Novel #5 - Claremont/Anderson

Absolute The Long Halloween - Loeb/Sale

 

Hopefully they'll one day they'll put all of the Parker stuff in one big Omnibus..... still a great collection.

[BarryAllen]

Limiting to just ones I own currently:

 

Absolute New Frontier - Darwyn Cooke

Parker: Martini Edition - Darwyn Cooke

Locas - Jaime Hernandez

Marvel Graphic Novel #5 - Claremont/Anderson

Absolute The Long Halloween - Loeb/Sale

 

Hopefully they'll one day they'll put all of the Parker stuff in one big Omnibus..... still a great collection.

 

I had trouble getting into Parker. It was slow to take-off, so I didn't finish the first one. Am I really missing out?

[jaybes]

Limiting to just ones I own currently:

 

Absolute New Frontier - Darwyn Cooke

Parker: Martini Edition - Darwyn Cooke

Locas - Jaime Hernandez

Marvel Graphic Novel #5 - Claremont/Anderson

Absolute The Long Halloween - Loeb/Sale

 

Hopefully they'll one day they'll put all of the Parker stuff in one big Omnibus..... still a great collection.

 

I had trouble getting into Parker. It was slow to take-off, so I didn't finish the first one. Am I really missing out?

 

I enjoyed it until the prose sections in book 2 or 3 (can't remember which). That prose hit me like a brick wall and threw the whole feel of the book off completely for me. I own all the hardcovers but never finished them

[gadzukes]

-Alias

-Bone

-Strangers in Paradise

-Stray Bullets

-Preacher

-Saga

-Rachel Rising

-Batman TDK

 

I love em all in no particular order.

[delekkerste]

But rather than list everything I have read, I am interested in people's to 5 or so graphic novels they have enjoyed - particularly if they are not superhero related (or at least not top tier superheroes).

 

Here's one that hasn't been mentioned but should be - Rex Mundi. "The series is a quest for the Holy Grail told as a murder mystery. It is set in the year 1933, in an alternate history Europe, where magic is real, feudalism persisted, and the Protestant Reformation was crushed by a still politically powerful Catholic Church." If you enjoyed the Da Vinci Code, you'll love this.

 

Some others that haven't been mentioned:

 

The Killer

XIII

Sex (not to be confused with Sex Criminals)

Velvet

Thief of Thieves

Gotham Central

[stanley1883]

Hush

 

Y: The Last Man

 

Spiderman: Blue

 

Batman: Year One

 

Daredevil: Born Again

[Thawk]

Hush

Superman/Batman: Supergirl (Gallery Edition)

Under the Hood

For Tomorrow/Superman Unchained (combined they're worth a spot - not individually)

 

too many ties for my 5th spot - DKR, Killing Joke, Long Halloween etc.