Looking for a few good comics.

[The Traveler]

Some of these have already been covered, but this is my recommendation list.

• Grant Morrison's The Invisibles - Occult conspiracy. Good mixture of sci-fi, fantasy, and just old-fashioned weirdness. Very deep stuff with the references Morrison throws around, but absolutely stunning series. I've used it as inspiration for a brit-pop sort of Austin Powers themed Call of Cthulhu campaign.
• Alan Moore's From Hell - Do not see the movie. The movie is suck. As for the comic, it's available in a lovely bookshelf anthology. Hermetic ritual, the Jack the Ripper murders, Freemasonry, it just all kicks butt put together.
• Garth Ennis' The Preacher - Cowboys, a gunslinging angel of death, and the last descendants of the bloodline of Christ. Blasphemously good, and excellent inspiration for a Deadlands campaign.
• From various authors, Hellblazer - A lot of the authors I mention here have had runs on Hellblazer. The theme of the books changes depending on who writes, but the adventures of John Constantine are full of dark humor and film noir style mystery.
• Mike Carey's Lucifer - Sympathy for the Devil? You're damned right. Follows the exploits of the character of Lucifer shortly after he left Hell in Neil Gaiman's Sandman.

 

[RangerWickett]

Ach, I can't believe I forgot ElfQuest! It's been out for . . . decades. I don't know about the more recent issues (I heard some of them were bad), but if you can, pick up a copy of the first trade paperback.

Basically, it's set in a pre-civilized world, where Elves apparently arrived on this planet, ruled it for a while, and then lost power or were cast down. There are a lot of small Elf societies here and there, but most of the interactions are initially between Elves and humans (who fear the Elves). It's got a great take on wild Elves that are very nature-oriented, but not civilized, and though some may think the art is a little cartoonish, I highly recommend you spend the $15 to get the first trade paperback.

 

[Corinth]

I haven't really read any comics in years but I recently saw a issue of my friends "WAR LANDS" ( I think) It was the first issue of the series and really good.

I'm thinking about going to buying some comics so could anyone recommend any good series?

Specifically I'm looking for fantasy but sci-fi is ok. I'm not really interested in super hero comics though. Thanks for your help.

It's a decent enough D&D-style fantasy series, but damn if the TPBs take forever to get to the shelves.

 

[Thorin Stoutfoot]

Thieves and Kings!

I can't believe nobody's mentioned thieves and kings yet! The best fantasy comic out there, bar none.

 

[Jamdin]

The only comics I've been reading regularly have been "Batman: Gotham Adventures" & "Harley Quinn" only because that's the only DC Comics the local grocery stores stocks. I'm not big into Marvel Comics but I have picked up a few issues of the Marvel Knights version of "The Punisher" (I keep thinking Nicholas Cage should play him in the next movie). I have read the entire "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Haunted" mini-series which was good but not as good as the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Oz" mini-series.

"The Scorpion King" movie comic series is out and I picked up #1 which was good. That's about as close to a fantasy comic that I have bought in a long time. I wish DC Comics would bring back Travis Morgan as The Warlord.

 

[Darklance]

How many issues are contained in the War Lands Trade Paperbacks?

 

[Corinth]

The first (and so far, only) TPB collects half of the Darklyte arc and the special issues that go into the pre-history as it related to the Darklyte arc. The second, in theory, will have the other half.

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Warlands is great as are the spin offs Banished Knights and Shidima. I'd also recomend Dark Minds, sci-fi in the vien of ghost in the shell, and neon cyber(if you can find it) a spinoff of dark minds dealing with rival street gangs.

Transmetropolitian and planetary are great, you can't go wrong with Warren Ellis.

Midnight Nation is also a big favorite, i love Gary Franks artwork, It's too bad this is a limited series. Also if you like Gary Frank check out what if Stan Lee created Shazam. It was a good read and had some arthurian ties.

Again if you can find the issues Books of Magic was fantastic.

The crossgen books are also great i recommend them all really but scion and sojourn might be of particular intererst.

As far as superheroes the list is huge, i collect a lot of titles each month. Although i'm planning to use Deapool as a template for a spycraft character!

 

[Flinx]

For fantasy-type comic books, I also recommend you check out Crossgen Comics. Sojourn is a great fantasy title as is Scion. For sci-fi, there main title is Sigil. They've also started a new one called The Path which is in an "Oriental Adventures" setting.

I also agree that Midnight Nation and Rising Stars are great books but they are terrible about putting them out on time.

Most of the other comics I read are the good ol' superhero stuff.

 

[Welverin]

I have a deep love for Garth Ennis as a writer, which I'm sure says deep and disturbing things about my personality.

I really liked the two serious WW2 books of his I've been able to get so far and will pick up the others if I can find them.

Bone, it started out as a humor book, but has become a fantasy book with a depressing lack of quiche jokes.

Powers by Brian Michael Bendis, is about two cops who investigate crimes involving super powered individuals. Best letters page I've ever read.

Midnight Nation by J. Michael Straczynski, there are only two issues left so it's probably best to wait until the inevitable TPB is released.

Preacher, this is done so you can just get the TPB's as you're ready.

Rising Stars also by JMS and previously mentioned.

I liked Battle Chasers when Joe Mad was actually working on it, but it's gone on indefinite hiatus while he concentrates on his video game company.

I also liked Fathom, which Michael Turner has just started up again after recovering from a hip replacement.

IN case you decide to give some Super hero books a chance try these:

Amazing Spider-Man by JMS.

Marvel's Ultimate books are all good, Ultimate Spider-Man being the best.

The best thing to do is look for certain writers and look for any books by them. Ones I suggest are Bendis, JMS and Ennis.