Comic Picks

I haven’t finished a book in years. I always say it’s because of my eyes – after a page or two my eyes get tired. Something to do with wearing glasses since I was 5 years old. The sentences all blur together after a while. So it’s amazing that I even finish reading books like Lord of the Rings, The Once and Future King and those Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles that go on and on with descriptions about the décor in each and every room.

But now I’ve come to admit, it’s not my eyes as it is my impatience. Sometime in my early 20s, I rediscovered the joy of reading comics (ok, graphic novels, just to sound a bit more mature). After all, what I have to read through an entire paragraph to get an image of, I can just glance at one panel. Worth a thousand words.

So, in over a decade, the late bloomer that I am in comics (er, graphic novels) now has stacks of trade paperbacks and hardcovers and single issues. I won’t say I’m a comic-con level expert at comics (er, graphic novels). But I do know what I like. And for those who have always been curious where to start, I decided to start dedicating a series of blogs on the titles I would recommend. (Don’t worry, I will do my best not to put spoilers.)