[J m HofMarN]

So, this is a graphic novel, but the characterization and plot are so incredible, as well as the length, that I'll be damned if this isnt better than 90 percent of what passes for novels these days.

Has anyone else read this and found it to be delightfully fucked? The poor villain is easily my favorite character. It's weird to have an evildoer that elicits more affection and even sympathy than the protagonist, but hell, maybe that's part of what makes the series great. I now own all 9 graphic novels and am about to finish the last two.

[civilian_number_two]

I'd just like to say that when a comic book series is ongoing like Preacher or like Sandman was, it can't use the term "graphic novel.". It's just a well-produced comic book series.

That's all I have to add. I have never read the Preacher stuff.

[Otal Nimrodi]

What Civ said.

Except the having read it bit. I have read it. Its good.

[J m HofMarN]

but its finished. There are 9 graphic novels in the collection. I would hate to see what the stack of seperate comic books looked like if someone had the full line.

Also, it appears Herr Starr gets his genitals chewed off by a rotweiler.... Shit.

[Game Over]

Thanks for the reminder. I thought I forgot abut this, but I'm glad I'm back to it.

[J m HofMarN]

Speaking of which, does anyone else see a lot of religious symbolism in the relationship between Starr, Featherstone and Hoover?

[Otal Nimrodi]

but its finished. There are 9 graphic novels in the collection. I would hate to see what the stack of seperate comic books looked like if someone had the full line.

Those are Trade Paperbacks. Sometimes called Graphic Novel format. But still definitely comic books.

Of course, I HATE the term Graphic Novel. Its pretentious.

[J m HofMarN]

I hardly think so. There are some comics that are largely episodic, have no set character archs, and are just about ass kicking and good quips, and then there are comics, similiar to the serials which Dickens often employed, that are indeed pieces of a greater whole and have a clear story arc and character development. I think those comics deserve to be looked at with the same seriousness as a novel.

[Gobbler]

Seconded.

[Otal Nimrodi]

I hardly think so. There are some comics that are largely episodic, have no set character archs, and are just about ass kicking and good quips, and then there are comics, similiar to the serials which Dickens often employed, that are indeed pieces of a greater whole and have a clear story arc and character development. I think those comics deserve to be looked at with the same seriousness as a novel.

I agree completely. I'm all in favor of taking serious comics seriously.

I'd just rather call them comics when we do so.

[J m HofMarN]

but then no one outside the comic book world takes them seriously.

[Gobbler]

Seconded.

[J m HofMarN]

Pattern dected, experiment time is now!


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I fucked an armadillo

This post has been edited by J m HofMarN: 06 May 2009 - 08:00 PM

[Otal Nimrodi]

Seconded.


Wait, that was Gobbler's cue, wasn't it?




Edit: I had an opinion on the whole comic book/graphic novel matter but I really don't think its worth arguing over. I just think Graphic Novel is a needlessly pretentious term.

This post has been edited by Otal Nimrodi: 06 May 2009 - 09:22 PM

[Dr Lecter]

I just got my copy of Gone to Texas in the post. So I shall begin reading later