What to read?

[Ungrateful Pig]

Can someone suggest a decent place to start reading horror comics/graphic novels?

I really want to read Sandman, scary or not.

I've also been looking at the TCM comics, the Jason comics and the NOES comics. Which are better? Where to start?

Thank-ee.

[azathoth777]

Sandman is good but not really scary.
Anything by Steve Niles and/or Ben Templesmith is usually good. Their 30 Days Of Night series is excellent.
If you don't mind manga, Hideshi Hino's are usually pretty f#@ked up.

[The_Return]

Watchmen

EDIT - I didnt bother to actually read your post befoore I posted this. It really isnt horror at all (maybe at the end, kinda-ish), but still an incredible read.

[noctuary]

You are not going to find a better comic than Sandman, but no, it isn't scary. You could try Hellblazer, as it has much more of an occult/horror theme. Aside from that, The Walking Dead is an excellent choice. If you're into manga at all, you could try checking out Junji Ito's works. Gyo, Uzumaki and Flesh Colored Horror are the titles I'd recommend.

[Zero]

i sort of liked Preacher when it was in its early days - eventually it got to weird psycho-sexual. . . but i did pick up the final graphic novel collection and thougth the ending was cool

[lovecraft]

THe Walking Dead is a good series and Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing has some horror in it.

[waffle]

I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned The Crow yet!

[Phalanx]

Some random shit old and new...
Fear the dead
30 days of night stuff
the coffin
freaks of the heartland - sad, but beautiful...
blood and shadows
Warren Ellis - Scars was pretty chilling, very readable.
y- the last man
Fell
The Lurkers
Borrowed time
the athiest
girls
Black gas (3-part horror from ellis...how could you go wrong?)
the walking dead (like I needed to mention that)
Fear agent
clive barkers - the theif of always
zombies! feast
blood and water - one of the better vamp minis there's been.
Courtney Crumrin stuff
samurai - heaven and earth has some of the best art I have ever seen grace a comic, and a nice simple storyline...good stuff.

If you're after the crow, just get the original graphic novel, the rewritten image series is pretty good too, and "waking nightmares" is the best of the spinoffs IMO.

Superhero-ey stuff?
Invincible, I've really liked this series of green arrow (good starting point would be the "one year later" issues), the new flash series "the fastest man alive" seems pretty decent so far too, as always from DC, I think the bat-titles are the highest quality of the lot...and the new JLA is incredible. Over at marvel, New Avengers has been tight from the get-go, ghost rider just relaunched with Johnny blaze back in the title...amazing art and pretty cool storyline, and I think the "runaways" series has been great from the start. Wolverine, spider-man and x-men stuff is up and down, but this year's been pretty good from marvel...finally getting a lot darker.
Astro city stuff has always been a great, solid read too.

Also, look out for stuff by BOOM! Studios...they're a collaborative effort by some well and lesser known artists and writers, and have thus far drummed out some very good stuff, seem to be leaning towards the horror side of things too.

That, and pretty much anything I have, or will reccomend is probably worth checking out.

If you don't feel like jumping in from the current titles, you can always (as I keep saying) download DC++, hit up the comics hubs and download anything you need to catch up on, especially good for the stuff that's generally no longer available.
You wanna collect older stuff, you're in for trouble and expense, you wanna read, hit up dc++.
That said I think if you DO find a title you like, that's still on sale, no harm in buying it to support the title, helps some of the lesser knowns from going under...

ps - the noes & jason comics I've read have largely been shit.
The only two remotely worth mention IMO are one rather old "jason vs leatherface" 3-part series, and one called "nightmare on elm st - paranoid"...but even those aren't great. You want scares and intreguing stories, check out some of the stuff I mentioned at the top there...

[the_real_linda]

certainly 30 days of night.....its gonna be a sam raimi flick

[black_hellsing]

black gas
the walking dead
hellboy
y the last man
rex mundi
midnight nation
sea of red
escape of the living dead, though its avatar which means t & a for the sake of it and nothing more.

[Shadow]

wow I have only just started getting into graphic novels. Watchmen was great and currently reading Sandman loving it not scary no but theres a great list there when I am done. Thanks.

[Phalanx]

A few ones I've just picked up...

*The OZ/Wonderland Chronicles, this shit looks awesome, characters from both universes involved...haven't taken the time to read through yet, but I'll definately be "collecting" this one.
Great artwork.

*Legend - 4-part 2005 series from WildStorm. I usually hate WS stuff, but this one is cool by me. Basically a superman kinda story with a few differences...not the most original, but kinda compelling to read.

Horror stuff
*Escape of the Living Dead - Airborne.
Just seen the art so far, typical style for the series, very bloody, those into gore will like it. It's been an "ok" zombie title so far from what I've seen, but this one seems a little better.


*Lore

*I am Legend
Both some very nice looking vampire type stuff...I'll update.

[leon]

I have been reading escape the dead, and they are great I find them exciting, I all so started a texes chainsaw massacre bad moon rising and nightmare on elm street and they are all good, robert shit I can't t think of his last name but he put out a awsome werewolf comic.

[Roderick Usher]

Agree with everything above and must add

The Goon - horror comedy

Goon is a mafia thug fighting zombies and the ocasional Metallic man, The art and color are great and the dialogue is pure gold.

An oft-overlooked gem.

[bwind22]

Preacher & Sin City are the 2 most awesome comics around. The best part is that they are both complete already so you can read them start to finish without having to wait a month for the next issue. Preacher is more horror oriented than Sin City though.

I've been keeping my fingers crossed for years in hopes of them getting a green light on a Preacher movie, or better yet an HBO series. I think it'd be awesome!

[Zero]

THe Walking Dead is a good series and Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing has some horror in it.

loved the alan moore swamp things - i still remember one about a clockwork village made of robots who turn vicious when their maker is killed. . . really horrific final images there

i'd also recommend hellboy which, while not 'scary' per se, is a great read and much MUCH better than the movie (I liked the movie only because of the comics)

[SamCostello]

This is sorta shameless, but I just launched a new horror webcomic, which anybody can read online for free.

It's an anthology, new stories every month.

The firrst comic, "The Executioner is a Lonely Man," tells the story of two men who become neighbors on death row. Barrett, the row's newest arrival, is marking time until his execution. Transformed by guilt, he has accepted his fate, and waits for death. The other man, Doc, a long-time death row resident, asserts his innocence and strikes up an understanding, if not exactly friendship, with him. But one of the men has a dark secret — A secret that the other will only learn in the execution chamber, at the end of the gallows rope.

You can read it at http://www.webcomicsnation.com/splitlip

Sam

[The_Return]

This is sorta shameless, but I just launched a new horror webcomic, which anybody can read online for free.

It's an anthology, new stories every month.

The firrst comic, "The Executioner is a Lonely Man," tells the story of two men who become neighbors on death row. Barrett, the row's newest arrival, is marking time until his execution. Transformed by guilt, he has accepted his fate, and waits for death. The other man, Doc, a long-time death row resident, asserts his innocence and strikes up an understanding, if not exactly friendship, with him. But one of the men has a dark secret — A secret that the other will only learn in the execution chamber, at the end of the gallows rope.

You can read it at http://www.webcomicsnation.com/splitlip

Sam

I really liked it.

The ending was pretty obvious, but it was a very well written story. I'll definatly keep track of your site and read more.

[SamCostello]

Thanks!

I worried that the ending might be a too obvious, too, so I'll have to try to go in different directions for future stories.

The next story will be online in middle November.

Take care,

Sam

[Elvis_Christ]

Buddy Does Seattle by Peter Bagge.

[leon]

I have been reading the spook book 2, It has some great art in it and a hellraiser sort of story writtin by clive barker.

[the_real_linda]

im reading the army of darkness series, i was too late to get the issues....so i got the ashes to ashes collection and the army of darkness vs reanimator collection, i got the first issue of army of darkness vs darkman and its on order so i wont miss an issue