So, who's into graphic novels? I need recommendations.
I want to buy a birthday present to a friend of mine today. I meant to give him a book (he had just entered grad school last year, so I gave him Kuhn's Structure for his previous birthday, which he says he liked). Being good friends with him, I didn't mind asking whether he wanted yet another book on science, but he said "as long as it's a comic book, it's all right". The problem is that I know next to nothing about comic books (I read just one comic book this decade, and that's because it was given to me as a present, and I felt obliged to read it). Here's some info on him:
I know he thoroughly enjoyed "Watchmen", and liked a comic book in which all male creatures died and only the females survived (I can't remember what it's called);
He plays rpg and, yes, he's well aware of the fact that he's an all-around nerd (studied physics as an undergraduate, and is now a grad student of psychology), and is proud of it;
He's a devout Christian;
He browses that site I cannot mention due to laws #1 and #2.
Ideas? He outnerds me in such a manner that I don't even know where to begin
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Yes, he does like mudkips. But I want to get him something more adult... and by that I don't mean "Pokeypr0n"
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Sep-26-2009 16:43
bas
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If you're looking for a graphic novel, check out The Surrogates. I haven't read it yet but it seems pretty sweet, I kinda wanna read it before the movie comes out.
I was really interested in the story of that Whiteout movie, I wanted to know what the big secret was because I probably wasn't going to watch it. Turns out it was also a graphic novel, clicky
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Sep-26-2009 16:47
Cloudburst
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Isn't V for vendetta a comic too?
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Sep-26-2009 16:50
Lira
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I imagine he's probably read V for Vendetta... it's too popular.
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Originally posted by bas
If you're looking for a graphic novel, check out The Surrogates. I haven't read it yet but it seems pretty sweet, I kinda wanna read it before the movie comes out.
I was really interested in the story of that Whiteout movie, I wanted to know what the big secret was because I probably wasn't going to watch it. Turns out it was also a graphic novel, clicky
Yes, that's exactly the kind of stuff I'm looking for. Thanks for the recommendations, Bas
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Sep-26-2009 16:51
infinity HiGH
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quote:
Originally posted by bas
If you're looking for a graphic novel, check out The Surrogates. I haven't read it yet but it seems pretty sweet, I kinda wanna read it before the movie comes out.
I was really interested in the story of that Whiteout movie, I wanted to know what the big secret was because I probably wasn't going to watch it. Turns out it was also a graphic novel, clicky
The movie is already out and it's crap. If I were you I wouldn't waste the time and money seeing it in theatres.
Sep-26-2009 17:43
bas
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Originally posted by infinity HiGH
The movie is already out and it's crap. If I were you I wouldn't waste the time and money seeing it in theatres.
Surrogates or Whiteout? Surrogates looks promising, but the pg13 ratign is probably going to gay it up big time
check out the graphic novel called DMZ by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli
"set in a wartorn very near future NYC, US residents have bought into Iraq style Gorilla warfare and have overrun much of the US, following a rookie journalist abandoned in the city after a failed insersion, its his life and reports of the city and its residents, from the ground up, of the survival and the life that ensues from the love life of a AWOL Specops sniper, to the inner workings of a rooftop vegan resteraunt, to gig reviews and anatomys of street gunbattles, all very real and all very hard - hits hard and home for someone working in a news organisation whos friends do this on a daily basis in citys from Bagdad to Kabul"
