I just finished rereading Usagi Yojimbo collection books by Stan Sakai, and I have to say it holds up very well. Here are other favorites:


LONE WOLF AND CUB by Koike and Kojima
PLANETARY by Ellis and Cassaday
GUNSMITH CATS by Sonoda
TOME STRONG by Moore and Sprouse
THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN by Straczynski and Romita Jr.
THE SAVAGE DRAGON by Erik Larsen
BONE by Jeff Smith
HELLBOY by Mike Mignola
and of course, USAGI YOJIMBO by Stan Sakai

Frank Cho
LIBERTY MEADOWS

Hey, Frank!

Don't follow Liberty Meadows but liked your Illustrator book. Sort of liked LM but it didn't take, so I dropped it after a few issues. Think you do great cartooning and illustrating but find Brandy doesn't fit in quite right in the Liberty universe. Sorry.

Would be interesting to see you on Howard the Duck trying to make him blend in a more realistic universe and less cartoony than LM, or on Angel and the Ape where you would have to draw Angel more cartoony than Brandy to blend her in. By the way, check out my topic about "Disney animator's off duty project" and look into Blacksad.

Amyways, I prefer to have loose, easier to open flat, original issues to booked up editions, but some of my favorite graphic novel collections are:

-Moonshadow by J.M. DeMatteis and Jon Jay Muth
-Plastic Man Archives by Jack Cole
-The Land of Nod Treasury by Jay Stephens
-Alex Toth books (3) edited by Manuel Auad
-Kane by Paul Grist
-Miguelanxo Prado's stuff in French or English
-Soulwind by Scott Morse
-Cadillacs and Dinosaurs by Mark Schultz
-L'il Abner by Al Capp
-Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai (when I get Book 3, I can get to rest of series - have other trades and all of Dark Horse issues)

I'm trying to collect all the Blade of Immortal tpbs. Does anyone know how many tpbs will be released for this??

Also could anyone recommend anything that is similar to Darkstalker and Vampire Hunter D, i just couldn't find any of the two comics.

mine are the Scud, the Disposable Assassin books...oh....wait...they don't PRINT those anymore, the little fuckers!! [img]/resources/ubb/mad.gif[/img]

The first Metabarons trade is one of my current faves; where the second one is being held hostage, I have no clue. Also, the recent re-collection of Marvel's Punisher;Circle of Blood by Steven Grant and Mike Zeck. For my money, the best Punisher story ever told. And, I have to say both Footsoldiers volumes, released this year, were excellent reads.

Berlin: City of Stones .

Perhaps the best comic I have read so far.

-- Adam Crocker


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Steve Weissman's YIKES! is one of the best indy comics I have ever read. It's out now in TPB from Fantagraphics. The precursor to all the "lil' monster" comics out now that aren't very good.

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rabid eye by rick veitch
drawn and quarterly´s anthologies (chris oliveiros edits them, I think)
jimmy corrigan by chris ware
safe area gorazde by joe sacco
maakies b tony millionaire
the invisibles: say you want a revolution by grant morrison
watchmen by moore and gibbons
goobye chunky rice by craig thompson
madman by mike allred
astro city kurt busiek
it´s a good life if you don´t weaken by seth.
all the alec books by eddie campbell
little lit -children´s comics anthology by various

these books are well designed and look really nice too.

the preacher trades