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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Mar 3, 2016 8:56:13 GMT -5
1602 - mini series (2004)
Angela - mini series (1994)
Batman Black and White - short story (1996)
Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? - mini run (2009)
Blaam! - short story (1988)
Black Orchid - mini series (1988)
The Book of Ballads and Sagas - short story (1996)
Books of Magic - mini series (1990)
Born to be Wild - short story (1991)
Breakthrough - short story (1990)
Cherry Deluxe - one-shot (1998)
The Children's Crusade - mini series (1993)
Clive Barker's Hellraiser - short story (1989)
The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish - OGN (1996)
Death Talks About Life - short story (1994)
Death: The High Cost of Living - mini series (1993)
Death: The Time of Your Life - mini series (1996)
Elric - one-shot (1996)
Eternals - mini series (2006)
The Graveyard Book: Graphic Novel (2014)
Harlequin Valentine - OGN adaptation (2001)
Hellblazer - one-shot within ongoing (1988)
It's Dark In London - short story (1996)
The Last Temptation - mini series (1994)
The Matrix Comics - short story (2003)
Miracleman - ongoing run (1985)
Neil Gaiman's Murder Mysteries - OGN adaptation (2002)
Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere - mini series adaptation (2005)
Outrageous Tales From The Old Testament - short stories (1987)
Sandman Midnight Theatre - one-shot (1995)
The Sandman - full ongoing(1989)
The Sandman: Endless Nights - OGN (2003)
The Sandman: Overture - mini series (2013)
The Sandman: The Dream Hunters - OGN (1999)
Secret Origins - short stories (1986)
Seven Deadly Sins- short story (1989)
Signal to Noise - OGN (1992)
Solo - short story (2004)
Spawn - one-shot within the ongoing (1992)
The Spirit: The New Adventures - short story (1998)
Swamp Thing - short story (1985)
The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch - OGN (1994)
Violent Cases - OGN (1987)
Wednesday Comics - serialized one-shot (2009)
Please tell me if I missed anything of not (I excluded the Tekno comics and BOM Life During War...)
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Mar 3, 2016 8:59:04 GMT -5
For someone who has never read any Gaian comics or never anything he liked, here's my list of must reads (I've read all those above at least once) :
Batman Black and White - short story (1996)
Clive Barker's Hellraiser - short story (1989)
The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish - OGN (1996)
Death: The High Cost of Living - mini series (1993)
Elric - one-shot (1996)
The Graveyard Book: Graphic Novel (2014)
Hellblazer - one-shot within ongoing (1988)
Miracleman - ongoing run (1985)
Neil Gaiman's Murder Mysteries - OGN adaptation (2002)
The Sandman - full ongoing(1989)
Signal to Noise - OGN (1992)
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 3, 2016 10:10:23 GMT -5
Let's see, these are the ones I've read:
1602 - mini series (2004): I like it. I don't love it. As an Elseworlds/what-if it's working pretty well for me. Like his Strange and Clea in it.
Angela - mini series (1994): A terrible, terrible comic, written for a terrible, terrible series created by a terrible, terrible man. Definitely the worst thing I've read by him.
Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? - mini run (2009): A bit too meta for my tastes, but I was pretty much done with Batman by this point.
Black Orchid - mini series (1988): Pft... this is long ago. It's beautifully drawn, but I remember little of the story, so I guess that's a strike against it.
Books of Magic - mini series (1990): I really like this, even if I'm not that familiar with DCs universe.
Clive Barker's Hellraiser - short story (1989): This story taught 12 year-old me the meaning of the world corprophilia. Thanks Neil!
Death Talks About Life - short story (1994): One of the best things that does what it does.
Death: The High Cost of Living - mini series (1993): See Sandman (I count this as part of the main series)
Death: The Time of Your Life - mini series (1996): See Sandman ( I count this as part of the main series)
Eternals - mini series (2006): I like this well enough. Keep in mind, I have read Kirby's Eternals, but it did absolutely nothing for me.
The Graveyard Book: Graphic Novel (2014): I'm not sure if I read the comic version or the book version. I think the book version... It's pretty much standard Gaiman YA novel. Not bad, but been there and done that.
Harlequin Valentine - OGN adaptation (2001): It worked better as a regular book. It has Bolton on art IIRC and it looks pretty, but it's not the kind of story that works as a comic IMHO.
The Matrix Comics - short story (2003): I read the short story, didn't know it was adapted into comic form. Don't know if it works as a comic, but I like the short story.
Miracleman - ongoing run (1985): I love that you call this an ongoing run. I only got recently around to reading this (due to legal issues reprinting this and it being impossible to get). It's another of those comics I love because it focuses on the regular people around the supernatural/superpowered people.
Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere - mini series adaptation (2005): I've read this, the novel and saw the original TV. This is the weakest version of the 3, but it's mostly due to the choices the artist takes.
The Sandman - full ongoing(1989): One of the best comics ever written. Especially impressive seeing the length of its run. Even at its weakest, it's better than most other comics out there.
The Sandman: Endless Nights - OGN (2003): Not quite as good as the regular series, but the art is amazing.
The Sandman: The Dream Hunters - OGN (1999): I read the illustrated book, but it was later released as regular comic? It's a classic fairy tale, the art was the main drawing point.
Signal to Noise - OGN (1992): Again one of the things I really, really like.
Spawn - one-shot within the ongoing (1992): see Angela.
Violent Cases - OGN (1987): I read this only relatively recent. The artwork is the main draw to me, the story itself didn't do that much for me. Not bad, not spectacular.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 3, 2016 11:06:09 GMT -5
My favourites are the Sandman ongoing (not the graphic novels nor miniseries) and The Books of Magic. The latter is truly remarkable despite its short length; it has one of the best John Constantine scenes ever and its vision of the past and the future was truly mythical. Lovely work. Those two are the Gaiman works everyone should read, in my opinion.
Black Orchid was nice in that it was really unusual; it was a very fresh take on superhero comics. A bit too strong on the exposition, though, since it destroyed what made Black Orchid interesting in the first place : the mystery that surrounded her.
I also very much enjoyed his Swamp Thing annual with Brother Power the Geek. Fun stuff, and a great Firestorm cameo ( the only time I could stand Firestorm as a fire elemental).
A gem of his is his 24 hour comic published in Cerebus, depicting the life of emperor Elagabalus. Neil drew that one on top of writing it, and it was brilliant.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Mar 3, 2016 11:14:56 GMT -5
Signal to Noise - OGN (1992): Again one of the things I really, really like. Simply put, probably one of the most ambitious graphic novels ever created by a writer/artist duo. It's beautiful, powerfull, simple, clever and a true mesh of words, concepts and pictures. I wish I remembered who I lent this years ago... |
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Post by coke & comics on Mar 3, 2016 14:49:18 GMT -5
Oops. I saw your post about needing a Neil Gaiman thread and went and created a poll thread. I missed you already had this. Apologies for the redundancy. And for apparently forgetting so many of his great works in the poll.
I think Sandman is far and above his best work. Everything else pales in my mind.
My next choice is Signal to Noise. One of those comics that has echoed in my head ever since I read it.
After that, I think it's Stardust. The edge of what one might call a comic, and ultimately a simple fairy tale romance, but just so beautifully told. I love Charles Vess drawing the faerie world, and the comic just transports me on this grand adventure to find love.
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Post by coke & comics on Mar 3, 2016 14:49:47 GMT -5
Signal to Noise - OGN (1992): Again one of the things I really, really like. Simply put, probably one of the most ambitious graphic novels ever created by a writer/artist duo. It's beautiful, powerfull, simple, clever and a true mesh of words, concepts and pictures. I wish I remembered who I lent this years ago... Ha! I also lost mine to the lending. Been meaning to grab myself a new copy. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Mar 3, 2016 14:58:15 GMT -5
Simply put, probably one of the most ambitious graphic novels ever created by a writer/artist duo. It's beautiful, powerfull, simple, clever and a true mesh of words, concepts and pictures. I wish I remembered who I lent this years ago... Ha! I also lost mine to the lending. Been meaning to grab myself a new copy. Sadly, my copy wos the OG hardcover UK edition, signed by both :/ Damn women! But on a sidenote, can Stardust be considered comics? In my mind, it's a novella with illustrations. Was there a comics adaptation? |
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 3, 2016 15:00:07 GMT -5
Someone borrowed mine as well, but I got it back. (I think the baseball bat with a nail through it, that I waved in his general direction made it clear that he would be returning that one. I did lose my Books of Magic due to lending).
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Post by coke & comics on Mar 3, 2016 17:57:08 GMT -5
Ha! I also lost mine to the lending. Been meaning to grab myself a new copy. Sadly, my copy wos the OG hardcover UK edition, signed by both :/ Damn women! But on a sidenote, can Stardust be considered comics? In my mind, it's a novella with illustrations. Was there a comics adaptation? That sounds like an interesting side discussion. It's certainly the edge of what you might call a comic. So we're clear: there are two published versions of Stardust. One is a prose novel with some illustrations. One is a 4-issue series (later collected), but still resembling illustrated prose. I think the line for what I would call a comic and what I would not falls in between the two versions of Stardust. But other people may set the threshold tighter. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Mar 3, 2016 18:04:31 GMT -5
Well, unless I think of counter-exemples, it's still quite obvious where the threshold sits : if there's dialogue, it's in a balloon. If not, it's not a comic book, which is fine by me, just another medium closer to those old tales, like brohter Gimm tales featuring Gustave Doré illustrations.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 3, 2016 18:58:40 GMT -5
The Alice Cooper comic is a classic for the ages.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2016 21:00:35 GMT -5
Neil Gaiman' Top Ten Works
Sandman Overture
Book of Magic 1-4
Endless Nights
Sandman #1-#75
Black Orchid #1-#3
Swamp Thing - short story (1985)
Books of Magic - mini series (1990)
Sandman Midnight Theatre - one-shot (1995)
The Last Temptation - mini series (1994)
Elric - one-shot (1996)
I have read these books mostly borrowed from my friends that I see at the Comic Book Store that I attend. The ones that I've in bold - I own print copy of his works.
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Post by berkley on Mar 4, 2016 14:34:07 GMT -5
I think you've convinced me to try Signal to Noise: I hadn't heard of it before so it feels less encumbered by expectations or hype for me. Also like the idea of a one-shot rather than a long, multi-book series like Sandman.
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