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    Question Odd and weird comic book recommendations?

    Are there any weird and bizarre comic books out there you know of to look up or read? That’s the kind stuff is the type of stuff I’m really into
    ya see the thing with humor is that it could either be real funny or completley terrible, the nightmare comes with everyone thinking your unfunny.

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    "I Shall Destroy All Civilized World" is the golden age at its most insane.

    I'd recommend the early Mad Magazine. There were excellent reprints of the work of Wally Wood, Jack Davis and Will Elder, although they seem to be rather expensive.

    Beyond that, the oeuvre of Grant Morrison is worth a check. Doom Patrol, The Invisibles, The Filth and Seven Soldiers are all quite weird.
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    Tales of the Beanworld by Larry Marder

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    One series I highly recommend for anyone who likes South Park or Rick & Morty is The Adventures of Barry Ween Boy Genius by Judd Winick.

    It's funny that he went in a different direction, writing superhero comics and then writing and drawing all-ages adventures.

    Middle School kids would love Barry Ween, but it is very R-rated. But one of my favorite comic books ever.
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    Dude! You can't go wrong with Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot!! Ut!!!

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    Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol.

    If you read the Wizard of Oz books as a kid, Stealing Oz, a recent reimagining of the characters in an "Oceans 11" kind of story is pretty cool and offbeat:


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Mets View Post
    "I Shall Destroy All Civilized World" is the golden age at its most insane.
    I need to get this. Fletcher Hanks was receiving signals that nobody else was. (It's Planets, btw, not Worlds)

    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Mets View Post
    Beyond that, the oeuvre of Grant Morrison is worth a check. Doom Patrol, The Invisibles, The Filth and Seven Soldiers are all quite weird.
    I enthusiastically second these, and would add Nameless by Morrison and Chris Burnham.
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    Cerebus got pretty weird with Church & State and Church & State II.

    Twilight Children by Gilbert Hernandez and Darwyn Cooke.

    Anything by Mike Allred.

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    Weird because of the style? Elektra: Assassin written by Frank Miller and drawn (or painted) by Bill Sienkiewicz. There is a freedom, a creativity in the way styles are mixed I never met in another comic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zelena View Post
    Weird because of the style? Elektra: Assassin written by Frank Miller and drawn (or painted) by Bill Sienkiewicz.
    With Amanda Conner doing modeling/posing for Sienkiewicz.

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    JINGLE JANGLE COMICS from Eastern Color, 1942 - 1948, 42 issues, features the work of George L. Carlson.

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    Here'sa few to look into to see if they're the right kind of weird for your tastes...

    The current Doctor Strange Fall Sunrise by Tradd Moore might be something for you to check out. Lots of weird trippy surreal art.

    The Avengers 100th Anniversary Special One Shot by James Stokoe

    Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks about an odd community centered around comics.

    Strangehaven by Gary Spencer Millidge has a weird Twin Peaks/Northern Exposure vibe going on in it.

    The Prophet revival from Brandon Graham at Image in 2012

    The Island anthology that Graham then did for Image

    Space Riders from Black Mask comics

    Nightworld by Paolo Leandri and Dominic Regan from Image.

    Moonshadow by J.M.DeMatteis and JonJ. Muth

    anything by Vaughn Bodē, especially stuff like Cheech Wizard

    Basil Wolverton's Spacehawk or the stuff he did for Plop!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Riv86672 View Post
    Oh yes! Also by the same creators, Six Sidekicks Of Trigger Keaton.

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    The Maxx was pretty weird.

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