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I'm just wondering who you love when it comes to comic books. I'm into Alan Moore, myself. V for Vendetta and Swamp Thing are classics. I dig Sandman too. Art has to be underscored by a great story too. I think Alan Moore is a master at this.

If you have any other suggestions, I might make another trip down to the comic book shop when I'm not so utterly tapped out. ;)

What do you think is the greatest comic book/author of all time?

spiderman, hulk, uncanny xmen, the punisher, and the avengers :D

How about Grendel? How about The Tick?

Ooh! I had the whole series of Lone Wolf and Cub before I left the UK. God I miss those. AWESOME artwork, great story. Fist of the North Star was good too.

How about Grendel? How about The Tick?

Ooh! I had the whole series of Lone Wolf and Cub before I left the UK. God I miss those. AWESOME artwork, great story. Fist of the North Star was good too.

holy shit lone wolf and cub pwns. best. movie. series. ever.

Ahhhh GOOD subject.

The Crow. If you haven't read the original you should. Jamie O'Barr.

From Hell. Get the collected trade paperback. It's Alan Moore.

Big Numbers. More Moore, good if you can find it.

The Preacher, Hellblazer and The Invisibles are all good stuff, although Hellblazer's quality is variable and I haven't read the Invisibles in so long I'm not even sure its in print any more. So look for Garth Ennis, Grant Morrison and Jamie Delano.

Check out the work of Neil Gaiman since he stopped doing 'Sandman'. He's good stuff.

2000AD. Sometimes the weekly turns out some top stuff.

411mania.com has a fair to good comics section which carries reviews so you can check out what they think is hot before you go buying.

Damn. I thought we were going to talk about Steve Martin, George Carlin, Eddie Murphy, and Chris Rock.

And Carrot Top! :P

Grant Morrison. And the guy I keep mixing up with Grant Morrison. Animal Man was pretty cool, The Preacher, The Invisibles....some I'm forgeting....

V for Vendetta was one of my favorite books of all time.

Hellblazer is pretty cool--Keanu Reeves is playing Constantine in the movie, and I can't tell you how much that sucks.

8 bit theatre is a great online comic. Apart from that, any spiderman with venom or dr doom, or both, is automatically great.

Not an author, but Alex Ross is awesome.

Neil Gaiman rawks. I know. I only have one Sandman comic left. From Hell was a work of art. I still want to get that again. The Bradleys was good, so is Love and Rockets.

I haven't got any of The Preacher. I wish I did. I think next time I go in, I'm getting any that I can find.

As for Alan Moore, The Watchmen was good too. I think I'll have to look up 2000 AD again. Excellent forum for artists breaking in, as well as established ones.

Awesome picks, people, keep 'em coming!

read some of gaimans real books. american gods is freakishly awesome

I didn't know he'd done any novels, Neil Gaiman. I have to say, it wouldn't surprise me. He's a talented writer. I think he just found the comic book format more to his taste.

I want to find a graphic novel called "Maus" too. It's a stylized interpretation of the holocaust. Very poignant.

I always look for the horror comics too. Things like The Witching Hour, or House of Terror. ;)

There are some really weird associations with Mad Magazine and the beginnings of comics as we know them, as well as the history of Alfred Neuman being enough to put the chills up your spine. He turns up in advertising decades before Mad, and there's sort of a ghost story to go with it.

I didn't know he'd done any novels, Neil Gaiman. I have to say, it wouldn't surprise me. He's a talented writer. I think he just found the comic book format more to his taste.

I want to find a graphic novel called "Maus" too. It's a stylized interpretation of the holocaust. Very poignant.

I always look for the horror comics too. Things like The Witching Hour, or House of Terror. ;)

There are some really weird associations with Mad Magazine and the beginnings of comics as we know them, as well as the history of Alfred Neuman being enough to put the chills up your spine. He turns up in advertising decades before Mad, and there's sort of a ghost story to go with it.
Maus is an amazing book. (I/II). It's about surviving the survivors, comming to terms with the authors father who survived the holocaust and how that effects his relationship with his father. Moving as all hell.

Neil Gaiman wrote a funny ass book with Terry Pratchet called Good Omens about the end of the world. Laugh out loud funny.

I didn't know he'd done any novels, Neil Gaiman. I have to say, it wouldn't surprise me. He's a talented writer. I think he just found the comic book format more to his taste.

I want to find a graphic novel called "Maus" too. It's a stylized interpretation of the holocaust. Very poignant.

I always look for the horror comics too. Things like The Witching Hour, or House of Terror. ;)

There are some really weird associations with Mad Magazine and the beginnings of comics as we know them, as well as the history of Alfred Neuman being enough to put the chills up your spine. He turns up in advertising decades before Mad, and there's sort of a ghost story to go with it.
Maus is an amazing book. (I/II). It's about surviving the survivors, comming to terms with the authors father who survived the holocaust and how that effects his relationship with his father. Moving as all hell.

Neil Gaiman wrote a funny ass book with Terry Pratchet called Good Omens about the end of the world. Laugh out loud funny.

hoor of babylon!!!!11!!!1 :D

I didn't know he'd done any novels, Neil Gaiman. I have to say, it wouldn't surprise me. He's a talented writer. I think he just found the comic book format more to his taste.

I want to find a graphic novel called "Maus" too. It's a stylized interpretation of the holocaust. Very poignant.

I always look for the horror comics too. Things like The Witching Hour, or House of Terror. ;)

There are some really weird associations with Mad Magazine and the beginnings of comics as we know them, as well as the history of Alfred Neuman being enough to put the chills up your spine. He turns up in advertising decades before Mad, and there's sort of a ghost story to go with it.
Maus is an amazing book. (I/II). It's about surviving the survivors, comming to terms with the authors father who survived the holocaust and how that effects his relationship with his father. Moving as all hell.

Neil Gaiman wrote a funny ass book with Terry Pratchet called Good Omens about the end of the world. Laugh out loud funny.

hoor of babylon!!!!11!!!1 :D
Terry Gilliam is set to direct the film, but there are so many films he doesn't get to finish....

Now see, I'm not really a Terry Pratchet fan. I could read a book with him and Neil Gaiman collaborating, but I didn't really care for the DiskWorld series. They were cute, but not really that funny. Reminded me a lot of the Xanth series.

I tend to like my entertainment a bit darker, and not chock full 'o' puns. I can't stand puns, and I forgive them only when I know they weren't intended...;)

"Sam & Max: Freelance Police"

Good Omens is possibly the funniest book ever written. It is really, really good. Of course I love both Gaiman and Prattchet so my love for it is not surprising.

For comics in general, I find anything by either Neil Gaiman or Alan Moore to be excellent. I also like Blade of the Immortal, more for the art than the story really.

Robert De Niro in Analyze this/that was superb!!! Then so was the old SNL cast, as well as Ray Romano

and I almost forgot Mark Fiore!
www.markfiore.com

BOB NEWHART ok?
he is the greatest comic of all time
or maybe bill cosby

their stuff from 30+ years ago is as funny today as when they recorded it. thats gotta count for something.

Greatest comic of all time??

Absolutely no competition at all...

2000AD

http://www.2000adonline.com/