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So, who's into graphic novels? I need recommendations.
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| Lira |
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 :p |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by kadomony
pokeymans |
Yes, he does like mudkips. But I want to get him something more adult... and by that I don't mean "Pokeypr0n" :p |
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| 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 |
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| Cloudburst |
| Isn't V for vendetta a comic too? |
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| Lira |
I imagine he's probably read V for Vendetta... it's too popular.
| 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 |
Yes, that's exactly the kind of stuff I'm looking for. Thanks for the recommendations, Bas :) |
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| infinity HiGH |
| 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. |
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| bas |
| quote: | 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 :( |
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| bARTovsky |
Preacher <-- click
One of the greatest series I have ever read. (though, if he's a devout christian they might be a tad offensive to him)
Also, digging this one right now:
100 Bullets <-- click |
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| bas |
| Oh yeah, Preacher! That is badass. |
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| wotyzoid |
Anything by Alan Moore. ie:
V for Vendetta
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
From Hell
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| jupiterone |
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" |
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