Welcome back to my top 10 recommended comics where I talk about my favourite comics and why you should read them. If this is your first time reading please look at my previous entries there are links provided below.

I won’t lie, writing a list of fifteen comic books that should be adapted to TV shows, while fun, was difficult. In fact the reason I chose to do a list of recommended comics was actually from a professional sense to give myself a bit of a break., To talk more subjectively about why I love the comics that I’ve recommended and, while it’s not by any means a list of my favourite comics, it was a list that I felt I could write with relative ease as I could just be myself and be honest and talk about just one medium as opposed to translating one medium into the other.

Needless to say like all my lists there are last minute changes, often just before I’m about to write them. So like last time I’m going to give honourable mentions to those comics that I wanted to include but in the end just didn’t make the final cut.

The first one is “Joker” written by Brian Azzarello and illustrated by Lee Bermejo (a man who in my mind is the finest comic book artist around today). This was a non-canon one shot which was part of why I wanted to recommend it, apart from its gritty noir style and immaculate artwork. The reason it fell short was honestly because I didn’t want to have three Batman recommendations on this list. The same was also true of “Batman: Year One” but also Alan Moore’s “The Killing Joke” which is also an amazing comic in its own right. They both brought a huge amount of depth to the Joker as a character which was why I considered both of them, and while it would have been a fun idea to talk about both at the same time on an entry, in the end I just didn’t want to write a list that contained of Batman… and then a few other comics.

So in the end I had to go based off of what I would recommend more, so I chose “The Dark Knight Returns” for its legacy and “Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth” for it’s shock value and the fact that I truly believe it tells the best story of any Batman one shot I’ve read so far. Batman as a character has such a deep pool of incredible stories that this time; the competition was just too much for “Joker” and “The Killing Joke” although I will certainly be talking about them in the future.

I wanted to talk about contained stories or if it was a series, one that wasn’t too long. I wanted this list to help people who aren’t necessarily into comics yet find a good starting point and in truth a lot of the comics on this list are ones that I myself began my journey with. I’m sure there are a lot of other examples I could have made and there are certainly going to be people out there who know far more about comics than I do, but these were just my picks for those starting out. I hope you liked them.

Comic book month is not over yet though. I have one more series of articles to write before I go on a brief comic book break and write about something else (you don’t want me to hate the industry do you?). After those twelve articles I’m back onto comic books and finishing up comic book month in style. Stick around!

Previous Entries:

Daredevil: Born Aagain

Akira

The Dark Knight Returns

X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills

The Crow

HellSpawn

Watchmen

Scott Pilgrim

Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth

Spider-Man: Kraven’s Last Hunt