I've never been one for Marvel. It's not that I don't like the comics (I do; quite a lot, in fact) but I just don't read them. However, I do know a hell of a lot about Spiderman and X-Men, but that's largely to do with my sister and her little obsession she's got there.
I suppose I read DC mainly, but it's never struck me as titles I seek out to read. Like, I've never read an issue of Batman, or any other of the classics.
What I do read is along the lines of Alan Moore and Neil Gaimen. Watchmen is of course the BEST COMIC EVER WRITTEN, but Sandman is the BEST THING I'VE EVER READ EVER. I bought the first TP on a whim in America somewhere (becuase my sister told me to, actually. She hadn't read it, but had heard it was good) and didn't read it for a good few months, as I was working my way through some new Hellboy and American Splendor TPs I had bought. And I had fogotten about it. Then I found it, read it during an evening and promptly asked for the other 9 books in the series for my birthday. Then I looked on Amazon, realised that Gaimen has written rather a lot of things, and have been trying to buy them all ever since.
I like Sandman a lot. It's very, very good, and deserves every single award it gets, becuase it's very, very good. I can't stress this enough. If you like comics, or even if you hate comics but like fantasy things and mythology, you really should buy the Sandman Library. Heck, just buy it anyway. You won't be disappointed. Promise.
As for favourite characters, I've got too many to remember them all here. Offhand, I've got Gilbert, Matthew, Dream, Death (obviously), Delerium, John Constantine (Hellblazer is fantastic and the film is going to be awful I can't believe they've got Keanu Reeves and set it in America the stupid stupid bastards argh), Foxglove and Hazel, Thessally, Daniel, and most of the cast of characters in Sandman. Especially, the endless, although Desire really scares me. Also, Hellboy and the main character girl from Uzumaki whose name escapes me at the moment, Gambit (he's so cool), V from V for Vendetta, Enid from Ghost World and, um, lots of others.
Uzumaki is this really crazy horror Manga. It's only three parts, and I recommed tracking it down, as it's very good. Bit disturbing though. The film is also shite.
But Battle Royale was good! The film and the manga. The mangas are very good.
*sigh*
Comics are so cool...
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Edited by: The Smee at: 4/14/04 6:38 am