There's a blog called Pop Candy, written by Whitney Matheson that writes about (expectedly) pop culture. She's a big believer in comic books, or graphic novels if you want to be a snob about it. The first comic I remember ordering from Amazon was "Y: The Last Man", about what would happen to the last man on Earth. It turns out Amazonian tribes would hunt him down to kill him, the government would send out secret agents to control him, and he would participate in a globespanning adventure with his new pet monkey, Ampersand to find his (ex)girlfriend. Needless to say, it's a great read. They've been trying to make a movie out of it for years with no success.
From there, I got into Fables. Another concept that Hollywood has tried to harness with Tv shows like "Once Upon A Time" or "Grimm". It's about fables like Snow White or the Big Bad Wolf who have been kicked out of their homeworlds by "The Adversary". Now, they all live in a magically protected building in Manahattan. The first volume concerns a murder mystery that you can actually solve long before the characters if you really pay attention.
And then I was completely in on comic books. I started Sandman, a classic by Neil Gaiman about the lord of dreams. I read Watchmen and other great one-offs like Dark Knight Returns and Maus.
For all of the movies they've made out of comics, I've never read one before they made movie until now. Captain America: Winter Soldier will be coming to you local multiplex this spring. After reading the book, I'm not sure how they're going to do it. Now I'm going to be that guy sitting in the theater saying, "Black Widow wasn't in the book. This is all wrong!"
Whatever, it will still be good.
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