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Sax: It would probably help if you tell us (who don't know you already that is...) what you generally like and appreciate. I like giving recommendations, but it’s a bit difficult not knowing what you usually read.
But for sheer entertainment, I could recommend Alan Moore’s Top Ten. You have to be a bit into superheroes, but my (admittedly, slightly nerdy) woman friends like it a lot, and most of them just read one or two JLA-adventures when they were kids. So it’s not strictly fatbeard country...
A lot of good ideas, fast paced and witty dialogue, and generally very clever.
Imagine Hill Street Blues, with every character; cops, crooks and the general public, exchanged for superbeings or aliens. The explanation why the city is so weird is a bit far fetched, so I won’t go into that...
Suffice to say that there are super speedster pizza boys and hookers releasing neuro transmitter substances through telepathy. The police captain is a talking dog in a humanoid exoskeleton. That won me over -- I really love stories with talking animals.
A lot of fun. There’s at least one trade paperback.
In another vein: Have you read Stray Bullets by David Lapham? Okay, so it’s a bit of a gangster comic... But this one actually has believable, gripping characters and beautifully fluent story telling. Most of the people described are peripheral to crime politics and most stories have nothing to do with gunslinging at all. It’s still pretty gritty, though.
At least two paperbacks, from what I know. Highly recommended. Then again, it’s won all sorts of prices, so you may have read it already... Not exactly underrated...
Solitary Rose: There is a Essential FF 3? Since when? I have to have it! Strangeness galore!
And yes, Krazy Kat is a must read (or better, own). Get a book or two if you haven’t already! |
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