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About ComicBooker
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ComicBooker
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Jan 3, 2001
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Comic books are an important part of a nutritious reading breakfast.
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Reviews Written: 7
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ComicBooker's Recent Opinions
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Mar 18, 2001
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SANDMAN One: The dreams begin!
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Neil Gaiman, Bryan Talbot, Kelley Jones, Todd Klein, Marc Hempel - The Sandman Library: Preludes and Nocturnes
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Mar 18, 2001
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MENZ INSANA: A mindblowing story about blown minds!
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Feb 27, 2001
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Sin City: Family Values Is Riveting and Enlightening!
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Frank Miller - Sin City, Frank Miller - Sin City
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Feb 27, 2001
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God Is Not In His Heaven And All Is Not Well With The World!
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Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, Matt Hollingsworth - Preacher Proud Americans: Proud Americans
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Feb 27, 2001
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Kill Your Boyfriend: Bad Advice (Usually), Great Story (Always)!
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About ComicBooker
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A lot of people have been very helpful and my thanks to them are at the bottom of this page.
This site is all comics, all the time.
"It is as foolish to skip superior literature because it is presented in the form of a comic book as it is, for example, to skip something written by Toni Morrison because it's in a paperback."
That's a line in an amazing article on Epinions about Grant Morrison's Batman: Arkham Asylum, A Serious House on Serious Earth. The article Batman: Arkham Asylum: a masterpiece about madness is by Eplovejoy. (Eplovejoy is my brother, but I'm not just saying his article is good because of that.)
And that's what I want to write about: how comic books are kick-butt entertainment and also real literature. Good books to read are:
Sin City: Family Values by Frank Miller. The first book in that outstanding series is Sin City and two good articles about it are Powerful, Stark Story Slams Convention by Shadowpdf and RMM's Review of "Sin City" by Redmethodman. A good article about Big Fat Kill is I want to have Frank Miller's child by Nb41 which also has a helpful list of other books in the series.
Whatever Happened to the Man of Steel? by Alan Moore is probably the best Superman story ever and lorendiac has written an excellent article about it How to fade out in style.
Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman, who also wrote the Sandman books which are must reads.
Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore. A Comic for People Who Don't Read Comics is _Cassandra_'s article about The Complete Strangers in Paradise and it is excellent.
Kingdom Come by Mark Waid.
Concrete: Think Like a Mountain and Gifts of the Night by Paul Chadwick.
The Inhumans and The Sentry by Paul Jenkins.
I don't have to write about Watchmen by Alan Moore or From Hell by Moore and Eddie Campbell because other people already have. From Moore by Ulysses04 is an excellent article about the Moore/Campbell book about Jack the Ripper. Who Watches the Watchmen? by kurt_h and And They Lived Happily Ever After... by Ulysses04 are great about Moore's superhero classic.
JavaDevil wrote A surrealist comic book for people outside the mainstream an amazing article about Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol: Crawling from the Wreckage.
And godking and Pyanfar wrote awesome articles about Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan. The first is called The psychotic ravings of a madman. But they're really good. and the second is The Slimy Underbelly That Futurists Never Told You About.
And Andrew Hicks did an excellent job in The Ultimate Batman Origin Story writing about Batman: Year One by the Frank Miller.
I haven't read Marvel's Earth X but I want to now that I've read "Something Wonderful!" by Shadowpdf.
An interesting book that's about comic books sort of is Hollywood Kryptonite: The Bulldog, the Lady and the Death of Superman about the murder of George Reeves who played Superman on TV. Shadowpdf wrote Hollywood Dynomite about the book.
A lot of comic books fans like horror movies too. If you're one of them Psychovant made some great recommendations in I Can Only Pick Ten? and Suck This - Err, My Top Ten Vampire Flicks.
So go out and read these articles and the books they're about. Then come back here and read what I have to say about other books you'll like.
And go to Eplovejoy's profile page. He has a list of some great writers on it. It will take you some time to read them all but it's worth it!!!
THANK YOU!
Thanks to everyone who has written comments and sent emails since I wrote my first reviews. You are all so cool.
Some people said it's distracting to make every sentence a new paragraph so I won't do that anymore.
Well not much anyway.
To the woman who told me how to make links appear on this page: THANK YOU! Send me your name because I didn't keep your email but I want to give you credit for helping me and the other authors. The only thing you didn't tell me was how long it would take and how much I would have to type. I'm not kidding. It took me more than two hours. So to the rest of you: FOLLOW THESE LINKS OR I WASTED A LOT OF TIME!
And my brother sent me an email reminding me about using commas and saying that books and movies and such should be referred to in the present tense. If I forget his advice sometimes that doesn't mean I don't appreciate it. (OR: If I forget his advice sometimes, that doesn't mean I don't appreciate it.) (He says I use exclamation points too much! I think he uses too many parentheses.) (That's the right spelling. I looked it up!)
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