It is, however, worth looking further than the heavy hitters like Watchmen and Batman: The Killing Joke. It might be obvious to include Moore, but he casts such a long shadow over contemporary graphic novel writing that it’d simply be contrarian to leave him out. As with much of Brubaker’s work, the stories in Criminal twist and turn into unexpected shapes with dizzying frequency, making each tale both utterly compelling and deliciously disorientating. It also earns extra points for having been written by Garth Ennis, a proud son of Belfast, no less.Ĭriminal is a series of knife-sharp, noir-tinged tales about the people who live on the wrong side of the law. A head-spinning supernatural rollercoaster ride that explores and subverts many of The Big Questions of morality, religion and family, it’s an astonishing work. You may well have seen the TV adaptation of Preacher, which has been receiving glowing notices since its original showing on AMC in 2015, but if you’ve not read the original graphic novel, you’re missing out. Here’s a selection of the finest comic books for the graphic novel novice, all with a certain stylistic edge and not cape in sight.
These books are brim-full of big ideas, complex, morally-ambiguous characters and eye-popping IMAX-worthy imagery there’s more to this stuff than adolescent power fantasies and men in spandex. As Hollywood continues to remake, rework and reboot to feed the box office machine, the most imaginative new stories being told are on the shelves of your local comic book store. The stand-alone hardcover edition will include new and expanded scenes, and is being described as an “expanded and remastered” version of the story in the same format as Brubaker and Phillips’ My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies graphic novel.Is there a more misunderstood strain of popular culture than the graphic novel? Mainstream audiences are only discovering now what faithful fans have always known – the comic book is the medium of choice for many of the past century’s most progressive, visionary artists. Originally published in the second and third issues of the latest volume of Criminal, Bad Weekend is the story of Hal Crane, a veteran cartoonist who uses his appearance at a convention - where he’s due to receive a lifetime achievement award - to settle some scores about missing artwork from decades earlier.
In time for this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips are releasing a new edition of Bad Weekend - their comic convention crime thriller - complete with all-new material.
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