tony de wonderful

I'm currently reading Frank Miller's Batman: Dark Knight Returns.



I dismissed graphic novels for years and only recently learned to appreciate them.

I've also read some Alan Moore stuff like The Watchmen. His stuff is kind of like Frank Millers; very literal. Same era I guess.

Speaking of Batman stuff anyway I also have Batman Hush which more darker and stylised than the Frank Miller take on Batman. Also I read Batman Arkham Asylum, which is even more darker, almost like a dream, a nightmare, heavy on metaphor and imagery rather than 'story' like Frank Millers novels.

richiewong

Killing Joke and Death in the Family were ones that stood out to me

Bubba po

Watchmen. Enough said.

mj

There has been a film on F4 recently that was half film, half animation like this.

Quite bizarre but worth sticking with, can't for the life of me remember what it was called. It had a bloke in it with curly hair, that was a comic fan, had the hump with everything, and died at the end.

tony de wonderful

I watched the film before reading the novel.

The film didn't really work and seemed a bit silly. Just pop corn fodder.

Unfortunately when I read the novel - so almost ad verbatim was the film to it - that it was like I knew exactly the next page.

Bubba po

The trouble with the film is they had to leave so much out; the symbolism, the back stories, the ending. It was an unfilmable project. That said, they managed to pull off some excellent scenes that really worked.

Dingdongler

I've told you before TDW, get out more, find a girlfriend and get your nuts in. That will do a lot more for your long term sanity than reading comics