What is your favorite comic, that one you’ve read over and over again that has a special place in your heart?
Mine would be Peter Milligan and Mike Allred’s X-Force/X-Statix. I love how wacky and over the top the story is, and I can’t help but fall in love with the characters despite them being total scumbags. And of course, I can never get enough of Mike Allred’s amazing pop art style brought to life by Laura Allred’s colors. X-Force 124, the Darwyn Cooke fill-in issue that tells Edie Sawyer’s origin story, is up there for one of the best single issues I’ve ever read.
Neil Gaiman’s Sandman and its spinoff Lucifer. (if it’s made by Gaiman, I can be quite sure I’ll love it, no matter the media)
I’m not even generally speaking that much into comics, but the art and dreamlike storytelling in Sandman are irresistible. I’ve never really seen someone tell stories in that manner… individual strands that are then woven into something great in ways I would have never thought of.
Lucifer has really interesting philosophical themes and the way myths are mixed into reality always intrigues me. I also find the main character and story compelling. I might even enjoy it more than Sandman, even if it isn’t as unique.
Sandman is the one giant series I still haven’t read. I’ve finished collecting all of the single issues last year and have those old Vertigo omnibuses, so I’m hoping to start it sometime in the near future.
Ditto for Sandman, probably one of the best uses of the ongoing comic series medium. I’d also add BLAST by Manu Larcenet among my favorite ever.
Is Lucifer as good as Sandman?
I don’t think I’ve even heard of BLAST, I’ll keep it in mind.
I personally preferred Lucifer over Sandman. It did lack some of Sandman’s uniqueness, but still has plenty of things of its own. It’s a bit similar to the American Gods perhaps, exploring the world of gods and myth… just from a very different point of view. And as much as I enjoy following the depressed anthropomorphic embodiment of an abstract concept, the ambitious and cunning fallen angel does often end up being a more compelling main character.
Larcenet is one of the most prominent current French comic book artists - and BLAST has probably been his most groundbreaking work.
I really enjoyed both Sandman and American Gods, I’ll have to dive into Lucifer as well! I just checked it out and the whole run was not written by Gaiman apparently, but by Mike Carey.
Oh you’re correct! I had completely forgotten it wasn’t written by Gaiman, it has been a while since I read it. No wonder I remember it being so different from Sandman in style…