Why I Hate Saturn
10 best books like Why I Hate Saturn (Kyle Baker): Clan Apis, High Society, Elektra: Assassin, The Quitter, The Collected Fantasies, Vol. 2: Arzach and Other Fantasy Stories, To the Heart of the Storm, L'Incal Lumière, 30 Days of Night, Vol. 8: Spreading the Disease, V for Vendetta, Vol. II of X, Doom Patrol, Vol. 5: Magic Bus
Clan Apis is one of the funniest and most moving educational books I've ever read. Jay Hosler's writing is clear and inventive; you don't even notice you're learning a lot while you're reading this. Very much in the vein of what Richard Adams does for rabbits in Watership Down, Hosler does a fantastic...
| Author | Dave Sim |
| ISBN | 0919359078 |
Reprinting Cerebus Issues 26-50
Volume two of the Cerebus the Aardvark series, High Society, is the beginning of the main Cerebus story line and one of the finest graphic novels ever published. If you have to start from the very beginning, you'll need the first volume, Cerebus, but if you don't...
| Author | Frank Miller |
| ISBN | 0871353091 |
When acclaimed writer-artist Frank Miller began his celebrated run on the Marvel title, Daredevil, no one knew what to expect. They certainly didn't realize that a seemingly meek Greek college student by the name of Elektra would become one of the most popular and memorable characters in the post-modern,...
| Author | Harvey Pekar |
| ISBN | 1401204007 |
""Pekar's most poignant and satisfying effort to date."--THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW"Dean Haspiel. . . .performs with virtuoso flair in THE QUITTER"--THE NEW YORKER"Brutally honest."--ROLLING STONE★"A searingly honest memoir. . . . Pekar's work dignifies the struggle of the average man."--PUBLISHERS...
| Author | Mœbius |
| ISBN | 1569711321 |
This collection of nine short stories, six of which are told without the use of dialogue or sound effects, features the mysterious character Arzach, first created in 1976 by the French writer and illustrator Moebius.
It is not apparent whether the eponymous character is a hero, an antihero...
| Author | Will Eisner |
| ISBN | 1563896796 |
To the Heart of the Storm is Will Eisner’s memoir of growing up in Depression-era New York as well as a truncated bio of his maw and paw. It’s framed by a 25 year old Eisner looking out of a train window as he heads to war in 1942 looking back on his past.
I thought this one was fairly interesting....
| Author | Alejandro Jodorowsky |
| ISBN | 2731605847 |
Dans un univers futuriste aux dimensions inimaginables, un médiocre détective privé, John Difool, se retrouve un beau jour à la tête d'une enquête qui ne tardera pas à le dépasser totalement, et à l'entraîner dans un monde étrange mêlant science-fiction et expériences divines, dans...
| Author | Dan Wickline |
| ISBN | 1600100856 |
I don't know a thing about Dan Wickline other than that he wrote a dumb story arc for the 30 Days of Night franchise called Spreading the Disease. In this dumb story arc, an FBI agent is led on an X Files-esque goose chase that connects the earthbound investigation into the vampire carnage in space that served...
V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd.
The series depicts a near-future UK after a nuclear war, which has left much of the world destroyed, though most of the damage to the country is indirect, via floods and crop failures....
| Author | Grant Morrison |
| ISBN | 1401212026 |
The volume starts with presidential campaign that might have been weird by the standards of the day but almost seems tame compared with what is going on with the today's presidential campaign. Its a good story though, and a fun prelude compared to some of the darker stories here.
Some of the tales...
Batman: The Long Halloween #1
Published in 2011 by DC Comics.
This is a collection of 13 comics compiled into a single book that tells about the mystery of a serial murderer called Holiday. Holiday always strikes on a major holiday and is particularly fond of killing figures in Gotham City's network of crime families.
Batman,...
Hellboy, Vol. 4: The Right Hand of Doom
| Author | Mike Mignola |
| ISBN | 1593070934 |
Dark Horse presents new editions of the entire Hellboy line with new covers, beginning with Seed of Destruction, the basis of director Guillermo del Toro's upcoming film. Hellboy is one of the most celebrated comics series in recent years. The ultimate artists' artist and a great storyteller whose...
Miracleman, Book Two: The Red King Syndrome
| Author | Alan Moore |
| ISBN | 1560600365 |
Michael Moran has rediscovered the power of Miracleman, but unbeknownst to him, Dr. Emil Gargunza, the man behind Project Zarathustra, has set in motion plans decades in the making. In The Red King Syndrome, Gargunza's intentions for Miracleman's wife and unborn child set the stage for a confrontati...
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 6: Gouge Away
| Author | Warren Ellis |
| ISBN | 1563897962 |
Witness.
Here I am: Spider Jerusalem, media element, TV celebrity, quotable, that wild and crazy guy who does that controversial muckraking column that no one really reads... lost in mix.
Another face in the crowd.
Spider is having a bad time in his city. His column was silenced...
