Favorite black and white (monochrome) comics

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So, make a list. What are your favorites?

To start things, I'll make a list of all the black and white comics I can think of (to which I'll add your favorites):

  • Batman Black and White
  • Sin City
  • Wolves
  • The Mire
  • Demo
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Most of R. Crumb's work, I think
  • Punk Rock Jesus
  • Johnny The Homicidal Maniac
  • Most of Judge Dredd and the rest of 2000 AD
  • Lone Wolf and Cub
  • Vagabond
  • Boneyard
  • Bone
  • From Hell
  • Blankets
  • Queen and Country
  • Box Office Poison
  • Echo
  • Echoes
  • Love and Rockets
  • Strangers in Paradise
  • Rachel Rising (This one is probably my favorite at this point, but I need to read more before I can really say so)
  • Essex County
  • Jinx
  • Domu: A Child's Dream
  • Eden
  • The Underwater Welder
  • The Bronx Kill
  • Sam and Max
  • Green River Killer
  • Torso
  • Why I Hate Saturn
  • A Sickness in the Family
  • Rat Catcher
  • Good-bye Chunky Rice (another of my favorites)
  • Axe Cop
  • THB
  • Spy vs Spy
  • Don Rosa's Comics and Stories
  • TEotFW
  • Quack!
  • Eightball
  • Solo
  • Zot!
  • Wasteland
  • Planetes
  • Switchblade Honey
  • Grendel
  • The Goon Noir
  • My Friend Dahmer
  • Sergio Aragones' Boogeyman
  • Phonogram
  • Strange Killings
  • The Walking Dead
  • Ragemoor
  • Strange Kiss
  • Stranger Kisses
  • The Couriers
  • Black Jack
  • Elfquest
  • Couscous Express

Weird little side note: After quite a lot of searching the internet, I've only seen one list of favorite/top/best comics, and it was a 5-entry list of one user on Comic Vine.

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Punk Rock Jesus

From Hell

Wasteland

Walking Dead

Kabuki (Well I mean Circle of Blood, Agents of the Noh and Scarab were B&W)

Couscous Express

The Couriers

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I added The Couriers to my reading list. ^_^

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No one else?

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Grendel is the only one I read.

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I haven't read most of those, but The Walking Dead is amazing. I also loved Elf Quest, though I don't remember if they were originally B&W and got colorized, or if the B&W omnibus that came out just did that for some reason. I remember reading some oversized collections of them about 20 years ago that I could swear were in color though.

I always loved the original Eastman & Laird run on TMNT, although once the series lost continuity and just became a bunch of random adventures, I lost interest.

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The Walking Dead

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Boneyard. I remember that.

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#10  Edited By valzi

@freefa11: I looked into it. Elfquest is in fact black and white, though there is a color version of at least some of the books - maybe all of them. I don't know anything about it, so I'm glad you recommended it.

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Well I used to love Jhonen Vasquez and Roman Dirge's stuff and I just started Empowered on a friend's recommendation.

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Black and white comics annoy me.

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@black_wreath: I did that too. Empowered is a one-gimmick, one-joke comic, but that joke isn't funny. I recommend against it if you don't like the first few issues.

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Multiple Warheads, Over Easy, Blankets, The Walking Dead.

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I Killed Adolf Hitler was in color.

We have many favorites so I'll list some that aren't on your list:

  • American Splendor and Pekar's other works
  • Blazing Combat
  • Bottomless Belly Button
  • The Bus
  • Charles Burn's works
  • City of Glass
  • A Contract With God
  • Corto Maltese
  • Essex County
  • Hate
  • Hicksville
  • Incognegro
  • Some of Jason's works
  • King City
  • Louis Riel
  • Optic Nerve
  • Peepshow
  • Road to Perdition
  • Yossel
  • Yummy Fur

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The old TMNT comics.

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Maus was really cool.