Currently enjoying The Walking Dead, Y The Last Man, Fables... That kinda thing.
The Guardian?
The Beano? They have The Numbskulls in it now. In fact they probably have for years but I recently found it out.
DMZ
Stephenson's Robot on Accent Comics will be good-out soon.
Crecy by Warren Ellis is short and v.good.
Rogue trooper.. you aint lived until your dead.
Any Frank Millar, but especially Hard Boiled or Sin City. You could also try the early Alan Moore stuff. V for Vendetta is a far better comic than the film shows, and Top 10 is a good yarn.
Read lots of Miller, Ellis and Moore, but good suggestions. DMZ sounds very interesting!
To suggest a few:
Transmetropolitan
House of Mystery
WE3
The Sandman
Akira
Marvel Zombies
I generally tend to stick to the Vertigo label, seems the better writers gravitate towards it...
Kick-ass, . . if you don't mind waiting about 4 months between each issue!!
anything from the Vaughn Bode archives is a must have just to fill in your comic history and see the underground comic movement at it's best..
Mark Bode is now doing some good stuff too..
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PS This is light-hearted joshing. I, aged 38, like comics too. Cuurrently enjoying European style ligne clair stuff such as Blake & Mortimer. The recent Rainbow Orchid books are good too.
Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller) is prolly the best graphic novel I've read. Batman Year 1 (Miller again) is well up there too.
Batman Hush has outstanding artwork from Jim Lee (Batman just looks 'right')and the story is pretty good as well.
1602 (Neil Gaiman) is a good read, though it helps if you know somthing about the Marvel characters in it first
Arkham Asylum (Grant Morrison) is very good, but very very dark
If you can get hold of any of the Joss Whedon (he of Buffy and Firefly fame) written X-Men, they are well worth a read.
League of Extraordinary gentlemen Vols 1 & 2 (Alan Moore) are brilliantly clever in their use of famous fictional characters, but later vols are just on another freaky-deaky planet.
V for Vendetta, Watchmen and From Hell (all by Alan Moore) are all worth a read as well
I'd suggest you go down the Library as well - my local (Taunton) has a fantastic stock of graphic novels.
Hmmm I think I may need to get out more...
Toby
Watchmen is a must read if you haven't already.
Film is incredibly boring compared to the novel. Alan Moore was right when he told them you couldn't make a film of it.
It was a good attempt, but they missed just so many little things that made the comic brilliant.
If you wanted to go a little off the beaten track, you could head to Dark Horse and read all the Aliens universe stuff. Maybe throw in the predator ones as well, as both have some good stuff in, Colonial Marines being a decent example.
I used to have a _lot_ of Aliens comics (saw them as eventual collectors' items), but ended up selling them at a slight loss when I needed money for a deposit on a house. Waterstones had compendiums of a lot of the different series in last time I looked. Sooooo tempting.
Locke and Key is worth a read