{"id":7487,"date":"2015-12-11T20:55:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T01:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=7487"},"modified":"2016-11-14T19:12:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T00:12:10","slug":"comic-books-graphic-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/comic-books-graphic-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic books &#038; graphic novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was never a big comic book person, but there are some particular series and authors I&#8217;ve followed. My comic book collection mostly consists of <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> comics from the 1990s. I have some more recent graphic novels &#8212; many from J. Michael Straczynski (his complete run on <strong>Spider-man<\/strong>) and Joss Whedon and his team (<strong>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/strong> and <strong>Angel<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Best of the best<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Batman: The Dark Knight Returns \u2013 Frank Miller<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/battlestar-galactica-complete-omnibus-v-1\/\">Battlestar Galactica: Complete Omnibus V.1<\/a> \u2013 Greg Pak<\/li>\n<li>The Amazing Spider-man (starting with Coming Home) \u2013 J. Michael Straczynski<\/li>\n<li>Superman: Grounded \u2013 J. Michael Straczynski &amp; Chris Roberson<\/li>\n<li>Angel season 8 (starting with After the Fall) \u2013 Joss Whedon et al<\/li>\n<li>Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 8 (starting with The Long Way Home) \u2013 Joss Whedon et al<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Runner ups<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Star Trek: Countdown \u2013 J.J. Abrams et al<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/betrayal-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-2\/\">Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm<\/a> \u2013 Corinna Bechko<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/angel-and-faith-willow-wonderland\/\">Angel &amp; Faith season 9<\/a> (starting with Live Through This) \u2013 Christos Gage et al<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/planet-of-the-apes-the-utopians\/\">Planet of the Apes<\/a> (starting with The Long War) \u2013 Daryl Gregory et al<\/li>\n<li>Angel Omnibus 1 \u2013 Jeff Mariotte et al<\/li>\n<li>Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again \u2013 Frank Miller<\/li>\n<li>Watchmen \u2013 Alan Moore<\/li>\n<li>The Man Who Grew Young \u2013 Daniel Quinn<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/superman-earth-one\/\">Superman: Earth One<\/a> \u2013 J. Michael Straczynski &amp; Shane Davis<\/li>\n<li>Supreme Power 1 \u2013 J. Michael Straczynski<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-1-freefall\/\">Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 9<\/a> (starting with Freefall) \u2013 Joss Whedon et al<\/li>\n<li>Serenity: Better Days \u2013 Joss Whedon et al<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/serenity-leaves-on-the-wind\/\">Serenity: Leaves on the Wind<\/a> \u2013 Zack Whedon et al<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honourable mentions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus 7 \u2013 Tom Fassbender et al<\/li>\n<li>Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus 6 \u2013 Christopher Golden et al<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/all-star-superman\/\">All-Star Superman<\/a> \u2013\u00a0Grant Morrison<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/batman-cacophony\/\">Batman: Cacophony<\/a> \u2013 Kevin Smith<\/li>\n<li>Angel: Illyria &#8212; Haunted \u2013 Scott Tipton<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek: The Original Series Omnibus \u2013 David Tischman et al<\/li>\n<li>Serenity: The Shepherd&#8217;s Tale \u2013 Zack Whedon et al<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was never a big comic book person, but there are some particular series and authors I&#8217;ve followed. My comic book collection mostly consists of Star Trek comics from the 1990s. I have some more recent graphic novels &#8212; many from J. Michael Straczynski (his complete run on Spider-man) and Joss Whedon and his team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[7,56,42],"class_list":["post-7487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-book","tag-graphic-novels","tag-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7487"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9838,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7487\/revisions\/9838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}