Comments on: Essential Graphic Novels

By: daily comic book guy

daily comic book guy — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:27:17 +0000

I’d also recommend “From Hell” which is massive, but awesome, a true artistic endeavor.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:54:31 +0000

I don't know enough about Superman/Batman to have any clue how "important" the book is, though it could simply be a matter of pushing their big team-up book. It looks like "Public Enemies" is the first arc, so they're probably following the same pattern of picking a series and pushing book 1 (rather than picking a book and pushing it individually), but seriously: does anyone need an introduction to a book whose primary concept is "Superman and Batman team up?" I was going to suggest Preacher as well, but my I-can't-believe-it's-one-in-the-morning brain didn't quite get to the point of typing it. Though given the subject matter, I can imagine some busybody deciding it's the last straw, they could deal with Hellblazer, but how dare DC include this! It occurs to me that I have no idea when they actually made this list. I spotted it on the home page, and hadn't noticed it before, but the newest book on there is The Quitter, which came out in late 2006. For all I know they could have put it together a year ago.

By: Loki

Loki — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:29:08 +0000

I find the absence of Starman puzzling, especially with DC about to give it the absolute treatment – and they are drastically over-estimating the importance of Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.

It seems odd to me that there’s no Garth Ennis titles anywhere on this list – I wasn’t expecting Hitman, but his Hellblazer collections drastically outsold Original Sins. And the complete absence of Preacher is even more peculiar.