However recently this has all changed, my boyfriend is a big comic book fan and he loves exploring our local comic stores for hours on end, looking at all the new releases and well whilst I'm there with him, I end up looking too and I have to say I think I may have a new love, they are quick and easy to read and yet at the same time some are so thought-provoking and create intense emotional reactions from me, the same reactions I get from reading books, I can't believe I've never given them a try before and can we talk about the illustrations. Just wow! I wish I could draw as well as some of these artist, honestly I would love to see some of my favourite books turned into graphic novel form.
Now I am still a complete novice but these are some of the graphic novels that I've read and really enjoyed.
Locke and Key (Welcome to Lovecraft) by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez
"The Eisner-nominated Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them, and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all!"
Chew (Tasters Choice) by John Layman and Rob Guillory
Tony Chu is a detective with a secret. A weird secret. Tony Chu is Cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also means he's a hell of a detective, as long as he doesn't mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to figure out whodunit, and why. He's been brought on by the Special Crimes Division of the FDA, the most powerful law enforcement agency on the planet, to investigate their strangest, sickest, and most bizarre cases.
The Sandman (Preludes and Nocturnes) by Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith and Mike Dringenberg
In PRELUDES & NOCTURNES, an occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain
for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. After his seventy-year
imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest
for his lost objects of power. On his arduous journey Morpheus encounters
Lucifer, John Constantine, and an all-powerful madman.
Maus (My Fathers Bleeds History) by Art Spiegelman
A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself.
Fables (Legends in Exile) by Bill Willington, Lan Medina, Steve Leialoha and Craig Hamilton
When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters have created their own peaceful and secret society within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabletown. But when Snow White's party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it is up to Fabletown's sheriff, a reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf (Bigby Wolf), to determine if the killer is Bluebeard, Rose's ex-lover and notorious wife killer, or Jack, her current live-in boyfriend and former beanstalk-climber.
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