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Originally Posted by 3 Justin 3
I have been reading The Walking Dead series and I really enjoy it.
What suggestions do people have to get into graphic novels more specifically.
I am thinking to buy The Watchmen as I enjoyed the movie and I read part of it in Chapters last night and enjoyed it.
I want to get into Batman too, but which one do I start with? (speaking graphic novels, not the comics, although is there a good recent series of Batman comics?) I have heard of The Dark Knight Returns, Year One, the ones written by Frank Miller and Alan Moore, but I know there are more from other guys.
Any other good graphic novels?
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Just a slight correction.
Generally a graphic novel is another name for a Trade Paperback. Simply put it is a collected edition of a comic.
Pretty much everything anyone has listed was originally printed in individual issues and then collected. Watchmen was 12 issues, TDKR was 4 issues. Those 2 are examples of limited series. Some of the other ones listed like Wolverine: Blood Debt or Batman: Hush were part of an ongoing series that simply collected that particular story arc.
There is a slight difference in that graphic novels can refer to something that was never published as part of a series. For example The Killing Joke is a graphic novel only and not part of an ongoing or limited series.
For Batman I would start with Year One. Then Long Halloween, Dark Victory and possibly Catwoman: When in Rome. All 3 are year one type stories as well.
From there you can pretty much read anything. Any characters you don't know in say Hush for example you can just google to find out their history.
Unless you pick up a limited series like All Star Superman which is designed for new readers there will always be tons of back story that you won't be familiar with. I tried to suggest stuff that didn't require to much background knowledge in my previous post. However, most of these characters have between 30 and 70 years of history so there is usually lots of back story to learn about.