Yes to all your comic book selection. Maus was also the first graphic novel I read when I was 22, in grad school, when my fellow classmate taught it in his practice class. I reread it not long ago and own a copy.
I also own Watchmen and Sandman. Like you, I got Watchmen before the movie to read it first (and I really thought the movie was the book on screen) and was very impressed by it. My favorite volume of the Sandman is the 6th one, the one with historical short stories, which is not a surprise for someone with BA and MA in history. It is not my very favorite of Gaiman's things but I do love mythology. I'm not an art person, I read for words not the art, so I'm not exactly the audience for graphic novels but I did like these for stories.
Also Fun Home by Alison Bechdel would be on my best graphic novel list. I really liked that one.
I collected Buffy Season 8 and Angel Season 6. I liked them but I ended I up really disliking the direction of Buffy Season 8, so I sold those. Angel ones were actually better as a story and I
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I read Maus for a class taught by a grad student, actually :) I still have my copy, too, though I haven't reread it since. It's not the kind of book I really feel like rereading... but one that I do want to keep, and maybe share with the rodents.
I thought the Watchmen movie did a really good job of adapting the book (casting, especially!). Ozymandias's plot is changed, and I did kind of miss the craziness of the original, but I can totally understand why, too.
For Sandman, I was surprised by how much I liked the 6th volume, because I don't terribly like history -- but it worked for me here. (Not my very favorite of Gaiman's things -- that would be American Gods and The Graveyard Book -- but up there.)
I thought about including GNs which were not standalone but tied in to franchises in other media. Like, there are several Avatar: the Last Airbender comics that I really enjoyed, and the Rivers of London comics are a pretty good supplement -- but ultimately decided it was too hard for me to deconvolute those from my feelings for
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besides blowing kissy faces at UNHANDING THAT SCIENCES, i would kindly like to quietly and non-obnoxiously place some of these comics on a future pigeon wishlist uwu /modestly disappears into background in a flutter of chiming sparkles
But of course! Noting for myself from the text convo -- Watchmen and Saga. (Saga tends to be pretty NSFW, btw. I'm assuming that doesn't bother you, but just in case you were planning to read it in public :P)
мерсишечки :P well im not carrying my graphic novels on me when i read them, so i think nsfw is a-okay :'D also i think i resigned myself to the fact that i actually want the book for elliot >_> I LOVE THE BEGINNING TOO MUCH OKAY all the dales and muggles notwithstanding
I was so surprised by how quickly and easily I was hooked by Saga! I read the first volume and then went back to the library and got the next four and read them all in a row. The characters are so interesting and complex, and the plot is good, and the art is beautiful... it's easy to get invested in. I enjoy graphic novels as a medium, but I do also think they can be harder to really connect with--maybe because there's less narration and less words generally and they're usually quite short? So it's impressive when one totally grabs me like that, especially one that I had absolutely no idea what to expect from (I actually didn't pick it up for ages because the title sounded so generic).
Same! And, yeah, it's super rare for me for a comic book to grab me with characters OR plot, let alone both -- and Saga managed that, in addition to the beautiful art.
I was thinking that with comic books, you generally don't get much internal monologue for the characters (I mean, in Saga and Watchmen you actually do, to some extent, but in Saga it's just framing narration). Which is also true for things like movies and TV, but in those mediums, you do spend much longer with the characters, and I, at least, am much better at parsing emotions and voice nuances when there's live action/animation and voice work rather than still art and speech bubbles.
I'm not really a comic book reader either -- which is why I have so few real favorites. I also own only a few, and most of those are either gifts or tie-ins to series I like (the RoL ones, and Avatar the Last Airbender ones). But I didn't list any of those because I feel like they don't really stand alone / I like them because of the other, pre-existing medium.
Yes, I think Peter and Hermione would get along really well. She'd find him a bit scattered, but in a fond way, I think -- like, a way that reminds her of her canonical friends (and while Peter's urban, largely immigrant family with tons of cousins is not exactly the Weasleys, I do think the 'close family with complicated dynamics' is close enough to what Hermione would have such fond memories of). Meanwhile, Hermione is capable and take-charge and has strong convictions -- not unlike Lesley before the betrayal. And their interests are compatible enough, though they'd go about them in different ways.
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Yes, I think Peter and Hermione would get along really well. She'd find him a bit scattered, but in a fond way, I think -- like, a way that reminds her of her canonical friends (and while Peter's urban, largely immigrant family with tons of cousins is not exactly the Weasleys, I do think the 'close family with complicated dynamics' is close enough to what Hermione would have such fond memories of). Meanwhile, Hermione is capable and take-charge and has strong convictions -- not unlike Lesley before the betrayal. And their interests are compatible enough, though they'd go about them in different ways. *nods* I very much agree with your assessment. :)
Zoe and Kirk were an interesting pairing. He's enough like Mal that I could see them getting along really well eventually, but also enough NOT like Mal that I could actually see the two of them in a friends-with-benefits sort of relationship, which I never could with Mal. But it would definitely take some time. It seems like Zoe is in general a person who takes a while to warm up to
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Not sure about them getting together. But possibly, I guess.
I mean, it's not a pairing that would occur to me on its own, and it's not one of those things that the meme suggests and I go, "Wow, I never knew I wanted that, but it would be SO GREAT!", but when prompted by the random number generator, I can envision circumstances under which it could happen :)
B5 does appear to be on Amazon streaming only for $, although season 1 is reasonably priced as $5 (at least for me in the US...) Past that, it looks like it's cheaper to buy the DVDs -- which I tend to prefer also.
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Yes to all your comic book selection. Maus was also the first graphic novel I read when I was 22, in grad school, when my fellow classmate taught it in his practice class. I reread it not long ago and own a copy.
I also own Watchmen and Sandman. Like you, I got Watchmen before the movie to read it first (and I really thought the movie was the book on screen) and was very impressed by it. My favorite volume of the Sandman is the 6th one, the one with historical short stories, which is not a surprise for someone with BA and MA in history. It is not my very favorite of Gaiman's things but I do love mythology. I'm not an art person, I read for words not the art, so I'm not exactly the audience for graphic novels but I did like these for stories.
Also Fun Home by Alison Bechdel would be on my best graphic novel list. I really liked that one.
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I thought the Watchmen movie did a really good job of adapting the book (casting, especially!). Ozymandias's plot is changed, and I did kind of miss the craziness of the original, but I can totally understand why, too.
For Sandman, I was surprised by how much I liked the 6th volume, because I don't terribly like history -- but it worked for me here. (Not my very favorite of Gaiman's things -- that would be American Gods and The Graveyard Book -- but up there.)
I thought about including GNs which were not standalone but tied in to franchises in other media. Like, there are several Avatar: the Last Airbender comics that I really enjoyed, and the Rivers of London comics are a pretty good supplement -- but ultimately decided it was too hard for me to deconvolute those from my feelings for ( ... )
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also i think i resigned myself to the fact that i actually want the book for elliot >_> I LOVE THE BEGINNING TOO MUCH OKAY all the dales and muggles notwithstanding
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Embrace the Elliot! <3
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I was thinking that with comic books, you generally don't get much internal monologue for the characters (I mean, in Saga and Watchmen you actually do, to some extent, but in Saga it's just framing narration). Which is also true for things like movies and TV, but in those mediums, you do spend much longer with the characters, and I, at least, am much better at parsing emotions and voice nuances when there's live action/animation and voice work rather than still art and speech bubbles.
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*nods* I very much agree with your assessment. :)
Zoe and Kirk were an interesting pairing. He's enough like Mal that I could see them getting along really well eventually, but also enough NOT like Mal that I could actually see the two of them in a friends-with-benefits sort of relationship, which I never could with Mal. But it would definitely take some time. It seems like Zoe is in general a person who takes a while to warm up to ( ... )
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I mean, it's not a pairing that would occur to me on its own, and it's not one of those things that the meme suggests and I go, "Wow, I never knew I wanted that, but it would be SO GREAT!", but when prompted by the random number generator, I can envision circumstances under which it could happen :)
B5 does appear to be on Amazon streaming only for $, although season 1 is reasonably priced as $5 (at least for me in the US...) Past that, it looks like it's cheaper to buy the DVDs -- which I tend to prefer also.
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