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.
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…