 | Watchmen by Alan Moore
Buy new: £8.54 / Used from: £6.50 Haven't read this book? Why not? Watchmen was paramount in moving comic books from kid's entertainment to an adult world. Alan Moore creates a masterpiece that stands against any novel.
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 | Batman: Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
Buy used from: £3.99 Batman is gone, Bruce Wayne is old, Gotham has decayed. One night amid a series of shockingly violent gang crimes, The Dark Knight is reborn. Miller drags Batman back to what he should be. A must buy.
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 | Preacher: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis
Buy new: £6.56 / Used from: £4.00 Jesse the Preacher. His girl the assasin. His best friend the Irish Vampire. He also has the offspring of an Angel and a Demon in is head, which summons the Word of God. Why haven't you bought this?
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 | Transmetropolitan : Back on the Street by Warren Ellis
Buy used from: £7.50 Spider Jerusalem is one of the greatest characters created. His bile flinging rants against anything that smacks of hypocrisy or authority are pure writing genius.
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 | The Authority : Relentless by Warren Ellis
Buy used from: £6.50 The Authority born from the disbanded Stormwatch Black Ops team. What if Super Powered beings decided that enough was enough, and started solving some of the world's problems their way?
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 | The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes (The Sandman) by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £4.74 Neil gaiman creates a sprawling world beyond our world. Read this, then the other nine. Expand your mind in a classic fantasy series.
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 | V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Buy used from: £6.00 Alan Moore again, no surprises there as he is the best writer working today. England is under the iron fist of facism, from nowhere a hero called V reminds people what freedom is all about.
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 | Top Ten Vol 2 by Alan Moore
Buy used from: £5.00 Both Volumes are great stories but Vol 2 for me just edges out the first. Super hero cops for a city where everyone has super powers. Stories that have suspense, comedy and pathos
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 | New X-Men: E is for Extinction v. 1 by Grant Morrison
Buy used from: £4.00 Grant Morrison grabs hold of the (admittidly flabby and exhausted) X-men and re-invigorates them. Opens with a shocking act of violence and then continues like a man possesed
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 | Superman: the Return of Superman (Superman (DC Comics)) by DC Comics
Buy new: £9.85 / Used from: £8.85 This book re-ignited my interest in Superman. Superman is dead, the world comes to terms with the hole he has left. Then a set of strangers all carrying some aspect of the Man of Steel start appearing
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