Stock Suggestions #3

[Pyroxian]

Yes, very good. Definitely worth getting the first two GNs, but they're all good.

   Steve

[Jared Katooie]

How to draw manga kicks ass. Parts of it read better than some of the stuff in prog 2005. Especially the manga about the life of a manga creator.

[DavidXBrunt]

I'm sorry, but I'm not buying anything written by Mark Waid. I'm sorry, but there it is.

Byron Virgo. 30th November 2004.

His Flash and Fantastic Four stuff is pretty good.

[DavidXBrunt]

Though in all seriousness there are now 3 Strangers in Paradise Digest volumes that go for about ?11 each and cover the first 5 years of the series. Highly recommended, especially in those editions.

[Byron Virgo]

Well, maybe it's just indicative of the fact that I really have no interest in superheroes anymore. After all, they're hardly likely to reach the giddy heights scaled by the likes of Frank MIller and Alan Moore now, are they?

[James]

All the Preacher and Transmetropolitan collections.

[DavidXBrunt]

Maybe not but they're solid stories that will appeal to people who wouldn't neccesarily enjoy Moore and Millar. He produces food, solid, work that is as good as heroes get. His recent Fantastic Four are, erm, a fantastic set of four books, it has to be said.

The Titan collections of Modesty Blase are worth considering, they don't make them like that anymore.

[Richmond Clements]

Halo, Apocalypse War, Skizz (just book one), Year One, JLA Earth2, Potrait of a Mutant, Ronin.

[Tordelbach]

If you're looking for maximum bang for your buck,indispensible moments in comics history AND something for everyone, then:

Age of Bronze: 'A Thousand Ships', and 'Sacrifice'
are just incredible works.  Worthy in the educational sense too.

Cerebus, all 6000 pages. Like him or loathe him, Sim is a genius.  Stark staring mad, mind, but what a body of work.

Jason Lutes: 'Jar of Fools' and the first spectacular 'Berlin' collection.

Eddie Campbell's 'Bacchus' (10 volumes, earlier ones are particularly brill) and all the 'Alec' trades.  Incredibel stuff.  

[colcool007]

Larson's Far Side Galleries would be a popular move. Also what about the new Titan Dan Dare books and Charley's War?

Most libraries I know get the daily papers in so how about a subscription to the Megazine? Once every four weeks and even a 5 year subscription would only knock out ?200 of your capital and it would guarantee new stuff to be coming in all the time.

[Max Kon]

I don't think libraries pay the same price for books

[Byron Virgo]

You're right Max, we get a slight discount.

Unfortunately, we can't subscribe to the Megazine, since out periodicals budgetr has been dramatically slashed, and we can't even get all the papers every day now, let alone comics.

Already got some of Eddie Campbell's Alec books, but I'm always up for getting more Campbell (I wonder how readers would react to Bacchus!).

Titan's collections of Dan Dare, Modesty Blaise and Charley's WAr are all excellent and worth buying.

Anyone got any other suggestions?

[Max Kon]

The Black Library all ways have good ones.

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