What's your favourite graphic novel?

EternalFacepalm

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Well, yeah, what's your favourite graphic novel?

I'll have to go with Joss Whedon's Fray, that was a masterpiece.
 

Hungry Donner

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Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind or Alan Moore's Watchmen (V for Vendetta is also excellent).
 

SilverHammerMan

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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.
Now that I've safely staved of ninjas, I'll explain;
True it's a little generic, but it was the first graphic novel that I read, and Batman is always awesome.
Also DC: the New Frontier, so great, especially the Marian Manhunter, and the spectacular John Henry storyline.
 

Steppin Razor

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Graphic novels including Japanese manga? Or just Western graphic novels?

If it's the former, I have no idea what my favourite is. I've read quite a bit and can't really make a choice. If it's the latter, then The Walking Dead is quite easily my favourite. Mostly because it's pretty much the only one I've ever picked up that I could stomach to read.
 

Gabriel Majeski

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Might as well throw down, as I know fuckall about graphic novels. I've never really gotten into the scene, and even less so since I got a Lit. degree. Still, when I was young I thought this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Empire) was the bees-knees.
 

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Alan Moore's Promethea is what I would regard as the greatest creative work ever promulgated as a Graphic Novel.
 

ScarecrowAlone

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Steppin Razor said:
Graphic novels including Japanese manga? Or just Western graphic novels?

If it's the former, I have no idea what my favourite is. I've read quite a bit and can't really make a choice. If it's the latter, then The Walking Dead is quite easily my favourite. Mostly because it's pretty much the only one I've ever picked up that I could stomach to read.
I think manga and western G. novels are generally regarded seperately. Or that would make sense to me.


My favorite is a tie between Marvel's Runaways, and DC's Livewires. Can't say I've read many non-comic based graphic's ^_^'
 

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"The Filth" by Grant Morrison. Though, I'd have to say "The Invisibles" was even better, but it was a comic series, not a novel, as I think The Filth was
 

Steppin Razor

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ScarecrowAlone said:
I think manga and western G. novels are generally regarded seperately. Or that would make sense to me.
Ah, but the very definition of graphic novel itself would include such things as Japanese manga and Korean manhwa. Not to mention that manga itself has a longer history of being collected and published in books than Western graphic novels.

Really, each person has their own opinion of whether it should be included or not, and that's why I asked. If the OP considered manga as graphic novels, it could change some peoples answers.