Recommended Graphic Novels/TPB's/Hardcovers, or request information on one your interested in!

Ok, so whether you have an extensive collection of graphic novels/trades, or just a few at the very edge of your book shelf, pick a favourite and recommend it to others.
It doesn't have to be super heroes, it can be anything, Horror, Fantasy, or something a little more esoteric. Give us the title, a brief explanation of why you enjoy it (if you have a review on amazon for it, feel free to plug it here!), and hopefully, we'll have a list that new readers, or those stuck for choice can come to, without having to go through the 100's of listmania lists showing The Dark Knight and Watchmen (love the books, just think EVERYBODY knows about them now).

Also if you've seen a book your interested in put your post on here, and hopefully someone out there can recommend it or give you reson not to pick it up!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/forum/comics/ref=cm_cd_tfp_ef_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=FxNKWFSZ9CGVWD&cdThread=Tx2H7BEXLX1PZNL

Onyx Brimstone And The Demongate Complete

It's an awesome read with plenty of action and comedy and isn't to overloaded with text and speech which keeps the action flowing quickly. It's also awesome because I'm the author I hope anybody that reads it enjoys it.

I love discussions/forums like this; The issue with yours Cerberus is the the title limits itself to DC and Marvel, and aside from that, seems to have become more focused on comic artists and their work. Hopefully this one will stay on topic.

I recommend:
DC: v.1: The New Frontier (DC: The New Frontier)
DC: The New Frontier Vol. 2: v. 2

These tell one complete story, that fantastically bridges the gap between DC's golden age and silver age. The art is beautiful, and the story is accessible to all readers.

Someone mentioned walking dead but try keep threads to a minimum or you end up with 30 discussing the same thing in many ways and threads staying on topic 100% ? never going to happen and hasn't already see.

Funny how you pick it restricts to DC and Marvel then you list two DC titles... ?

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lol strange.

lol; oh well I tried!

Regardless, I still highly recommend Deadworld Omnibus if you're even slightly interested in the horror genre. The dark and gritty art work complements the stories included perfectly, and at just under a tenner, it's a bargain.

My personal recommendations for series availible in TPB in no particular order would be:

The Walking Dead
Invincible
Vietnam Journal
Preacher
DC's Hitman
100 Bullets
Fear Agent
The Losers

A great non superhero series is the Criminal series by Ed Brubaker

Currently picking up the DMZ series (DMZ: On the Ground v. 1) and The Walking Dead (The Walking Dead Volume 1: Days Gone Bye: Days Gone Bye v. 1) and I have a few IDW omnibuses:
Silent Hill Omnibus
30 Days of Night Omnibus
Deadworld Omnibus (As recommended above!)
All are great stand alone books.

I recently wrote a review of Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes: http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RB4DGIZSG5ZXU/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm All Clowes' work is excellent. He writes (and draws) postmodern stories about loneliness and alienation. Some readers find them too dark, but I have quite a few and I love re-reading them. My favourite is Ghost World.

Locke & Key
Chew
DMZ
Preacher
The Boys
Transmetropolitan
Strangers In Paradise
Echo
Rachel Rising Volume 1: The Shadow of Death
Sweet Tooth
The Complete Essex County
3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man
Morning Glories
The Killer
Criminal
Blacksad
Whispers in the Walls
Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes
Lucifer
Testament
The Strange Talent of Luther Strode
100 Bullets
Pride of Baghdad
We3
Asterios Polyp
Richard Stark's Parker books
Blankets
Habibi
Ex Machina
Y The Last Man
Demo
Every book "Jason" has done
I Kill Giants
Kabuki
RASL
Midnight Nation
Rising Stars
Umbrella Academy
Scalped
Northlanders
Irredeemable

I've linked my favourites, but really they're all awesome.

I have considered picking up the Echo: The Complete Edition (Terry Moore's Echo) - I know a little about the synopsis, but is it actually any good?; I'm torn between picking this up or Bone: One Volume Edition: 1 (Bone Series).

Has anyone read both; can someone recommend one over the other?

Not read Echo, but Bone is excellent - get the complete collection in b&w, you can usually find it around the £10 mark and its probably the best independant comic of the 1990s.

I'm dabbling in superheroes at the moment (i shunned them as a youngster, aside from the more sci-fi orientated Fantastic Four and a couple of Marvel's 2099 books), and have really enjoyed Warren Ellis & Mike Deodato's Thunderbolts and BMB's follow on work in Dark Avengers (waiting for volume 2 to show up at the moment)

Druids by Galen Books is also excellent, a superb murder mystery series set in aincent Britain around the time Christianity was stamping out Pagan beliefs. Although fiction, a lot of effort has been put into researching the period and its interesting to see that Rome had a much stricter vision of Christian doctrine than was set up originally in Britain and how that created soem friction. Essentially, the story is of a druid working to solve the ritual murder of a number of monks whom have been attempting to capture the old religion to parchment before it is totally lost under the march of Christianity. Only two books out of the three have been translated from the original French so far, and both have come out three years apart so it will probably be 2015 before we see the final volume.

Just to mention a few one-off titles I really enjoy that rarely get mentioned (I also love most of the books that have already been suggested):

The Nightly News by Jonathan Hickman. Very stylized art and a story with a Network meets Fight Club kind of ethos.

House by Josh Simmons. Wordless and dark. Can be read in 15 minutes but will stay with you for some time.

The King by Rich Koslowski. About an Elvis imperonator who is so good, people begin to wonder if he is in fact really Elvis. Much better than it sounds! Also check out Koslowski's Three Fingers, which exposes the sinister truth behind the cult of cartoon stars and why they all have three fingers. Pure genius. Worth the cover price just to see how terribly Foghorn Leghorn has aged, and how very bitter he has become...

A Lot of Love by Watson and Gebbia. Skinny guy's obsession with overweight women leads him into lots of grief. Great and totally unique.

Capote in Kansas by Parks and Samnee. The story of Truman Capote in Kansas, doing research for In Cold Blood. Great but very similar to the movie Capote.

Green Manor by Bodart and Vehlmann. Anthology series of dark but comical stories set in Victorian England, using the posh Green Manor gentleman's club as a backdrop/connecting thread for all the tales. BEAUTIFUL artwork and a great sense of atmosphere.

Mad Night (and The Chuckling Whatsit) by Richard Sala. Sala is great and these are his two best works. Very stylish, very noir, stories that twist and turn in a thousand directions.... plus I actually own an original page of artwork from Mad Night!

Apocolypse Nerd by Peter Bagge. Best know for the brilliant Buddy Bradley stories, this is a one-off book by Bagge about the end of the world and how hard it would be for regular Joes like us to survive in the aftermath.

I could go on and on (oh wait, I already have!), but that'll do for now...

Sin City is a great comic book series: http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R34XRQFSSFV2WG/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm

Where do you usually buy your graphic novels from? I usually use Amazon and Ebay but I was wondering if there's any other recommended sites since I don't live close to any sort of comic book shop

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/ and Amazon.

I rarely buy from anywhere else, except my local store (but they are usually more expensive).

I'll be picking up the following next payday:
Justice League Vol. 1: Origin (the New 52) (Justice League (DC Comics))
Astonishing X-Men By Whedon & Cassaday Ultimate Collection 1
Ultimates: Ultimate Collection TPB

Should be good, am currently reading Thunderbolts Classic - Volume 1, which is a suprisingly good 90's series, and Batman - Knightfall (Vol.1 Collected Edition).

I second the "The Book Depository" recommendation.

abebooks has a number of good sellers, though a word of warning: I'd recommend searching by ISBN rather than title as each copy of a title is listed individually so you may end up sifting through a lot of listings for the book in another language than the one you want, especially if the edition/release in a particular language you're looking for is rare (I have a lot of experience with this as someone who buys a lot of manga), the ISBNs are on amazon's product page for each book so just find what you're looking for on here then copy/paste.

BetterWorldBooks are good for bargains if you're not picky about getting ex-library copies, they do say when it is, just that the best bargains tend to be for those, myself I buy comics as physical books because I prefer reading them that way and because the various e-readers available aren't very good with comics (apart from the iPad but that's expensive) rather than as a collector or as an investment for future resale, so I'm not really bothered by this... plus I'm a bit of an arts and crafts type so I don't mind lovingly patching up the odd book with scotch tape lol.

I'm reading a lot of batman at the moment, working my way through my chronological list.

The usual recommendations for batman would be

Batman: Dark Knight Returns

Batman: Year One - Deluxe Edition

Batman - The Long Halloween (New Edition)

Absolute Batman - Dark Victory

These are the most obvious but I'd also highly recommend the following batman:

Batman & the Monster Men (Batman (Graphic Novels))

Batman and the Mad Monk (Batman) (Batman)

Batman - Venom

I'd go for Bone every day of the week, Echo wasn't as entertaining as Moores Strangers in Paradise which I'd recomend over Echo

My own recomendations (Trying to avoid Superheros as they've been covered extensively)

Bone
Strangers in Paradise (Vol 2 (I Dream of you))
Strain (I Also recommend Santruary but that's 9 volumes)
Maus
Cerberus (High Society and Church and State)
Sandman (The Dolls House and Fables and Reflections)
Palestine
Why I Hate Saturn

"Why I Hate Saturn"!! Excellent addition to this list. How could I have forgotten it? Kyle Baker is criminally neglected.