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THE
GREATEST
GRAPHIC
NOVELS
FROM THE
CREATORS OF
AND
OF ALL TIME!
YOUR
MUST-READ
GUIDE!
148
PAGES ON
STARRING
THE BEST COMICS
AND GRAPHIC
NOVELS
EVER!
FEATURING
HELLBOY
CAPTAIN AMERICA
X-MEN
BATMAN
ALL-STAR SUPERMAN
LOVE AND ROCKETS
WATCHMEN
PLUS!
INTERVIEWS WITH ALAN MOORE, NEIL GAIMAN, HOWARD CHAYKIN
AND MORE
THE
GREATEST
GRAPHIC
NOVELS
OF ALL TIME!
FROM THE
CREATORS OF
AND
Special Editions Editor
Will Salmon
Art Editor
Mark Mitchell
Production Editor
Alex Summersby
CONTRIBUTORS
Carl Anka, Sam Ashurst, David Barnett, Abigail Chandler,
Jonathan Coates, Paul Gravett, Danny Graydon, Miles Hamer,
Stephen Jewell, Rob Lane, James Lovegrove, Andy McGregor,
Michael Molcher, David West, David Quantick, Nick Setchfield.
THANKS TO
Clark Bull and all at DC, Chris D’Lando, Katie Courtney and all at
IDW, Richard Edwards, Michael Molcher and Rebellion.
ME!
ELCO
W
How do you define a graphic
novel? If you take the term in
its literal sense, then you’re
looking at single, self-
contained stories, rather
than collected serials and
ongoing comics. And that
would discount most of your
favourites. No
Dark Knight Returns,
no
V For Vendetta
(both originally
serialised), no
Love And Rockets
(an
ongoing title)... Clearly, we weren’t going
to go down that route with this list.
Instead, this is a selection of our 100
favourite graphic novels, ongoing comics,
collected editions and individual volumes
of larger series in all genres. It’s a broad
slate of titles that we think are essential
reading, from super-hero classics to the
smartest indies. It’s a diverse list where
each book has only one thing in common:
they’re all really, really good.
Are there gaps? Oh, for sure! There are
way more than 100 great comics out there
and we’ve tried not to lean
too
hard on
specific creators (there’s more than a little
Alan Moore and Grant Morrison here, but
they both could have been far more
dominant). But I hope you’ll find
something cool and new that you
want to try as well as a selection
of your old favourites.
EDITOR’S PHOTO © 2015 KEVIN LOWE
COVER ART BY:
Brian Bolland, courtesy of DC Comics.
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THE
GREATEST GRAPHIC
NOVELS OF ALL TIME
Words by:
Carl Anka, Sam Ashurst, David Barnett, Abigail Chandler, Paul Gravett, Miles Hamer, Stephen
Jewell, Rob Lane, James Lovegrove, Will Salmon, Alasdair Stuart, Sara Westrop.
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SCOTT PILGRIM AND
THE INFINITE SADNESS
Writer
Bryan Lee O’Malley
Artist
Bryan Lee O’Malley
Published
2005
Publisher
Oni Press
Scott Pilgrim is dating Ramona Flowers.
This is good. However, to continue dating
her, Scott must battle her seven evil exes.
This is bad. Especially because, in this third
volume of the utterly individual series, the
ex he must battle is Todd Ingram. Todd is a successful musician
and is dating Scott’s own evil ex, Envy Adams. Even worse? He
has vegan superpowers...
Bryan Lee O’Malley’s work positively sings here, almost
literally at times. The fight scenes (often the highlights of the
series) are gloriously over-the-top and at the same time fiercely
well-choreographed and hard-hitting. The jokes come thick and
fast, and the level of visual invention is extraordinarily high.
But what makes it work are the characters. This is the
volume where we get complex, interesting answers for why Envy
and Scott are like they are. Envy’s transformation is especially
interesting given how understandable the pressures on her
are, and she, along with the magnificently sniffy Todd,
remain arguably the series’ best villains.
The book really works when it explores why Scott is as
he is, the trail of destruction he’s left and the impact this
has had on those around him. Scott isn’t a hero, yet, but
he’s not a villain either, and the unflinching honesty in
how he’s portrayed is one of the things that makes the
series, and this volume especially, a
classic.
ALASDAIR STUART
IMAGES © BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY
99
PUNISHER:
BORN
Writer
Garth Ennis
Artist
Darick Robertson
Published
2003
Publisher
Marvel (MAX)
The origins of the Punisher are rather
simple and to the point. After seeing his
family get caught in crossfire between
rival Mafia houses, former Marine Frank
Castle dedicates himself to a one-man war
against organised crime. That was how the Punisher is born.
Or was it?
In
Punisher: Born,
Garth Ennis shows us how the seeds for
the Punisher were sown long before that tragic day in New York.
Taking us back to Frank’s time as a Marine during the Vietnam
War,
Punisher: Born
sees him outgunned, burnt out and facing
total obliteration. The Vietnam setting might be familiar to
those who read Ennis’ flashbacks scenes in
Preacher,
but
Born
uses the senseless war to serve even wilder goals here (the Devil
might
be here, but he’s not playing cards this time). You know
Frank will make it out of Cambodia alive, of course, but when
you consider the costs he has to pay to do so, you’ll wonder if
that is a good thing.
Set in the more grounded “M for Mature” world of Marvel
MAX (where many of our 616 heroes don’t exist), this story is
Ennis refining his already character-defining work on Frank
Castle. A twisted, exhausting story of futile brutality. Yet at
the same time, impossible to put down.
CARL ANKA
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