Photo-Fu Comic Break: Gservo’s Top 5 Must Read, off the beaten path ,Comics series and stuff

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My outlook on comics books is rather eclectic, lots of things I like old and new. This list here represent the top five things I feel are must reads that are just a little different . Ill do a more normal list soon.

5 Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon-, no Not the movie which was freaking awesome to me. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was a twelve-volume comic series published by Comics One and written by Andy Seto. The comic is based on a 5 book series known as the Crane-Iron Pentalogy –You Read this and the movie gets exponentially better. The only way to find this series is on ebay

4 Akira Manga- Akira (アキラ?) is a black and white serial manga or graphic novel by Katsuhiro Otomo. Set in a post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo, the work uses conventions of the cyberpunk genre to detail a saga of turmoil.[1] Initially serialised in the pages of Young Magazine from 1982 until 1990, the work was collected in six volumes upon completion by Japanese publisher Kodansha.[2] The work was first published in an English language version by the Marvel Comics imprint Epic Comics, one of the first manga works to be translated in its entirety.[3] Otomo's art on the series is considered outstanding, and the work is a breakthrough for both Otomo and the manga form.[1] An identically titled anime film adaptation was released in 1988 after releasing 5 comics, shortening the plot, but with its structure and scenes heavily informed by the manga and its serial origins.[4]

3- Bloom County – Very influential to me, I read this as a kid and eventual bought all of the collections. Bloom County was an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which ran from December 8, 1980 until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the viewpoint of a fanciful small town in Middle America, where children often have adult personalities and vocabularies and where animals can talk. It originated from a comic strip known as The Academia Waltz, which Breathed produced for the student newspaper, The Daily Texan, while attending the University of Texas.

2- Squee's Wonderful Big Giant Book of Unspeakable Horrors – This Will mess you up something fierce, your mind will cry, you will have night mares, but its all worth it “Squee is a fictional character in Jhonen Vasquez's comic book Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, who was later featured in a four-issue series, published by Slave Labor Graphics. This was eventually collected as the TPB , titled Squee's Wonderful Big Giant Book of Unspeakable Horrors. The collection also contains the Meanwhiles which originally appeared in the individual issues of JTHM but were left out of the JTHM: Directors Cut TPB [1].’

1 Gold Digger- http://www.antarctic-press.com Gold Digger is a manga-style comic book series, written and drawn by Fred Perry, and published by Antarctic Press. Started in 1991, the comic tells the story of the extended Diggers family, who live in a fictional version of Atlanta, Georgia.
The idea of Gold Digger was created by Fred Perry during his tour of duty in the First Gulf War. A budding manga artist, Fred realised that his squadmates would pay money for pictures of beautiful women. He put this together with his love of Indiana Jones films to create Gina Diggers, an archeologist/scientist. When he got home, he created a bodyguard named Brittany, who was a werecheeta
The Best Geek Comic of all time its addictive, well worth the investment to read in from the beginning on dvd Antarctic Press delivers EVERY SINGLE ISSUE of Gold Digger material Fred Perry has ever done to date, from the first miniseries to color issue #100, in one convenient, encyclopedic, two-DVD-ROM archive collector's set! It references everything Geek at some point and is my Favorite Comics series of all time