In my comics group, someone shared this idea: Pick five comics (could be six series or graphic novels) that best describe your taste. As usual, I have trouble following instructions. I have chosen six comics that best reflect the themes I enjoy in comics, or fiction in general.
Those eight themes are:
- Strangeness and outcasts
- Capable protagonists who may or may not be damaged
- Big science fiction and mystery
- Adventure and exploration
- Themes of family and friendship
- Meta, mind-bending ideas about ideas
- Celebrating the past while bringing new light to old tropes
- And the occasional simian star
The representative comics are, in clockwise order starting in the top left:
Doom Patrol,
Motor Girl,
Drifter,
Starman,
The Unwritten, and
Fantastic Four.
The simian star was pre- or post- Mocha?
ReplyDeleteDefinitely Pre. Goes back to at least an ANGEL & THE APE story I read in the early to mid-70s. But it's also one of the reasons I love Mocha.
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