You guys should check out this graphic novel. I personally t

i have read that
the art was neat
the joker's font was annoying to read
it's still /co/

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>>8521806
>the joker's font was annoying to read

I agree, but did you honestly not enjoy the writing?

I thought it was easily a big notch above the typical cape story, not necessarily in the story content (which it still is) but the writing itself is packed with poetic detail due to the short nature of the book

story itself is a tenfold more interesting than the typical batman vs evil supervillain x scheme

>>8521794
is it better than Pynchon?

>>8521794
>graphic novel
that is stupid name for a comic.

Damn Spiegelman used just to sell more comics because it is "adult"

>>8521848
Graphic novel is usually used as a term for a "comic book" that is confined between the back and end cover, aka has a confined beginning and end inside the book. Watchmen was practically intended to be one but it was broken down into pieces of the story to be sold as a "series" of comics

practically any "comic book" worth their salt is usually a graphic novel rather than any particular issue of a long running series

>>8521794
Try to make your shilling less obvious.

>>8521852
>shilling a book that came out in the 80's

I hope youre genuinely this new and not just this stupid

>>8521855
The 25th anniversary edition came out in the 80's?

>>8521857
Came out years ago, are you really this retarded? Do you not know what shilling is?

The book has broken all sales records, nobody gives a fuck about one sweaty neckbeard waddling over to the store over 20 years later

>>8521834
Hi, Anon:

>>>/co/86348339

>>8521851
fuck off, dude. It is a comic with hard covers.
I respect comics, and call them "graphic novel" is disrepect them.

>>8521851
>Watchmen was practically intended to be one
Moore hates the term and recognizes it as a marketting term to help aim comics books at adults.

>>8521834
Different anon here. I actually read this last night.

I thought it was pretty lame. The art was okay, I would have liked it more if it was by Sam Keith. I like Grant Morrison, but I thought the story was a lot of fluff.

meh/10

>>8521863
I meant watchmen was intended to be one book, which is practically what graphic novel means today. Graphic novel was created as a marketing term, its separate now that comics are already perceived as adult

>>8521860
Are you autistic?

>>8521859
Try to make your shilling less obvious.

>>8521873
>now that comics are already perceived as adult
By manchildren.

Take this shit to /co/ where it belongs.

>>8521860
shit this niggas got great taste, but I'm sure everybody in comics agrees with him

>>8521860
One great line:
>People who unironically like superheroes like the flash, superman, iron man, wonder woman etc are literally anime fan tier subhuman manchildren. Its garbage made for children and for some reason they keep ruining actually potential material like Batman with it

>>8521885
You have to love the utter lack of self-awareness.

>>8521794
get this shit to /co/

>>8521890
And disregard for punctuation.

How is this /lit/ related? The writing of it is horrible. It's only popular because of the artwork, so it belongs in /co/

What are the best batman-as-detective comics?

>>8521997
ask /co/, that's kind of why the board exists.

>>8521967
>It's only popular because of the artwork
This is accura—

>so it belongs in /co/
Ffs, Anon.

>>8521860
>all that sperging out over Poe
lmao
Why do comics enthusiasts insist comics are literature, when they know so little about literature?

I like some comics (even some superhero-type stuff from Morrison, Ellis, Mignola, etc.) but they're pretty clearly not literature. It's a different medium. See how Neil Gaiman can write a pretty good comic (Sandman) but his novels are all terrible.

Yep a story about a hot rich guy who protects the private property of the city he has lots of money invested in from people with mental illness is /lit/.

>>8522145
I hope you think youre sounding smart because its just coming off as extremely wannabe high brow and retarded. The premise has never anything to do with the execution of something

And even discounting that youre making it sound more retarded than what it is. The novel in particular (Arkham Asylum) is a very conscious exploration by the writer in particular about why the thing batman does is a double edged sword for bruce wayne: its a psychological horror story.

>>8522134
>Mature comics for mature persons such as myself

>>8522134
>See how Neil Gaiman can write a pretty good comic (Sandman) but his novels are all terrible.
I quite enjoyed Good Omens way back tho I wouldn't parade it as particularly literary or w/e

>>8522153
No idiot im pointing towards the fact that in your op you said that it was /lit/. To me /lit/ is a board on 4chab. I then was making the jest that /lit/ is a marxist hive where people complain about being virgins and being unattractive and having mental illness. So I was making fun of /lit/ and your post, not the foundations that batmen stories are based on. I in fact wish I was batman. I appreciate your passion

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Alan Moore is the only comic author that is /lit/ fuck off pleb

>>8522038
Neck yourself you stupid fuck

>>8522176
wow. rude tbqh

>>8522171
>I in fact wish I was batman.
I wish I were as rich as Batman. I would also say as smart as Batman except that requires me to admit I am less smart than Batman. The guy has a bunch of fucking issues tho.

>>8522175
Alan Moore is not /lit/

>>8522189
It's too late. Jerusalem is one of the new meme books whether you like it or not.

>>8522199
It's only a meme book if Bloom says it's good

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>>8522202
Gonna have to disagree with you there bro.

>>8522202
Has His Bloomitute ejaculated an utterance about Bottom's Dream yet?

>>8522134
Is American Gods bad? I just bought it the other day, not really that familiar with Gaiman.

>>8522189
Voice of the Fire
Jerusalem

ITT:
People who like comics try to discuss a comic with people who would rather give the devil a rimjob than read a comic

What's the point, OP? These spergs would only try to validate their existence by humiliating you on the internet. What's the point

>>8522219
It's like all of Gaiman's stuff after Sandman: merely okay.

>>8522219
His prose is pulp fantasy tier

>>8522208
I don't think so. At least not yet.

>>8522208
Ya, forty years ago.

>>8522231
Anon, pulp prose = purple prose. And the pulps are long gone. More's the pity, because they at least tried to be entertaining.

No, Gaiman's prose is *airport bland*. It is perfectly neutral and wholly interchangeable with the prose of almost any other novelist whose works line the racks of airport book- and magazine-shops like so many pots of pablum.

>>8522253
>pulp prose = purple prose
No.

>>8522256
Yes.

>>8522219

that book is awful. hated myself for finishing it.

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>>8522281
>awful
Worse, it's merely okay.

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May I recommend the works of Dave Sim?

His Cerebus started out as a Conan parody,but the later graphic novels went in strange literary circles,with homages to Oscar Wilde,F Scott Fitzgerald,Ernest Hemmingway,and Woody Allen. Sim tried to push the boundries of what could be done with the format of the comic,and is worth exploring.

>>8522575
High Society and Church & State I & II are essential. After that, Sim vanishes up his own ass in order to give us a detailed report on the state of his post-divorce bowel.

>>8522575
His prose is fucking horrendous though. Sim's skill is all visual (and plotting). He's a great writer

>>8522619
Lol no, Cerebus is good through 200 at the very least. Did you only read through the Ascension and then fall for the misogyny meme?