Reddit mentions of Unwritten Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity

Looks like you enjoy Batman. Maybe get Year One?

If you can get into X-Men, try out Whedon's run on Astonishing X-Men. It's perty darn good. Starts here.

I personally dig a few comics that are becoming classics, but aren't classics in the traditional sense...

Try Fables.

Try Walking Dead

Try MY FAVORITE CURRENT COMIC Unwritten.

Also... do yourself a huge favor and start reading a comic or two that isn't in trade form already. There's a lot of great stuff that's either just come out or is soon coming out. In particular...

Try Saga.

The Unwritten! I started grabbing the trades a little while ago, and it's pretty quickly become my favorite series ever. It's all one long story (that can be divided into arcs, but it's still one big thing). It's also absolutely gorgeous. I want to wallpaper my house with those covers.

For ongoings, have you checked out Saga? The first two arcs are out and it's on a short break now, but the third should be starting up soon. It's pretty much one big story, too. Clearly defined "stopping points" at the end of the arcs, but it's all the same overarching story.

If you're just looking for longer arcs, and you're into vampires, you should definitely check out American Vampire. One of my favorite things ever. Great stories, great art, written by Scott Snyder who is currently writing the Batman books. Also currently on hiatus, but there are five trades out, and that's supposedly only the first half of the whole story.

(I've also just noticed that the "Customers also bought" section at the bottom of that Unwritten Vol. 1 Amazon page contains the same suggestions. Those are all pretty good options. Sweet Tooth, Fables, Fairest, Locke & Key. I haven't read The Manhattan Projects or Morning Glories, but I've heard good things about them.)

• First and foremost, Neil Gaiman's Sandman series. Really, pick up the first volume.. and then I dare you to stop reading.
  
  
• Everything Warren Ellis touches generally turns to gold, but I especially loved his Transmetropolitan series. Science fiction, anarchy, general badassery.. fantastic all around.
  
  
• Ghost World has been mentioned, and while I liked that, I thought David Boring was a superior work from Clowes.
  
  
• Just picked up The Unwritten, a new series by Mike Carey. After finishing the first volume, it looks pretty promising.
  
  
• Demo was dark and angsty, but in a good way.
  
  
• Marvel 1602 was a really interesting take on superheroes.. and again, penned by Gaiman. He fucking rules. Oh, and another Gaiman favourite of mine: Books of Magic.. Gaiman knows the right way to write John Constantine.
  
  Edit: Also, you might want to give manga (asian graphic novels) a try! Good ones to get started with are Death Note and Bleach. I also liked xxxHolic (though I never finished the series), and the anime film for Akira was amazing so I can only imagine that the manga would be just as good -- if not better!

I would like to Second Lucifer.
Also Starman. It is not Vertigo but a great book anyway.
I really like Unwritten too.

Okay, so there's two comics that are in progress that I'm absolutely in love with and recommend to everyone I can. The first is The Unwritten which is written by Mike Carey and Peter Gross. The reason I mention their names is because after you read Sandman, you want to read their follow-up series that they wrote about Lucifer, which is by far, one of the best comics out there. But I digress. They're some of the best writers out there and they've come up with this AMAZING story that's not exactly what you expect it to be. Something akin to Harry Potter in this world takes off, selling millions of books in the series until the author disappears. His son, Tommy Taylor, shares his name with the main character in these books and continues on with his dad's publicity stunts, even if he rather dislikes the stories and the fact people associate him with the wizard. Until one day, a woman insists that he's the boy wizard grown up...which is somewhat driven home when the main character's pet flying cat shows up...and he starts meeting other literary creatures, like Frankenstein's Creature. He slowly gets tied up in this world his father created that might not be as fake as he thought, while trying to get to the bottom of not only his own existence, but perhaps the world's as well.

I picked up this book mainly because of the writers for it, but I have yet to be disappointed in a volume. It always entertains and keeps you on the edge of your seat with what might just happen. And the parallels between this Harry Potter-esque character and his real-life counterpart are close but distant, so you never truly know what's going to happen next. It's engaging and the characters are wonderfully fleshed out (such as the Hermione equivalent, the Ron equivalent that gets bitten by a vampire, the Voldemort like character, the man who's hunting them all down to murder them, etc.) and the story makes you doubt everything (in a good way) as to what's just part of the story his father wrote, and what's really 'real life' in this comic book. The art is engaging and ridiculously on point with various real locations throughout the world, but does well to keep the fantasy between the book excerpts and 'real life.'

My favorite parts in the comic are the ones that Tommy interacts and discussions life with Frankenstein's Creature, how it explores not only what is a monster, but what exactly is reality if you're created into reality. Are you still a figment? Are you a real creature? Can you still be controlled? It's definitely different and keeps you hooked. I LOVE these sort of stories, that make you doubt the reality of the character's canon, and with all the literary ties it has (in our world as well) but it makes you wonder about the barrier between our world and fiction. UGH, there's only so many words I can use for this comic, but it's really freaking amazing.

My favorite character in comics has become Lucifer from Sandman. He's developed into this interesting character rather than the normal BLOOD AND BRIMSTONE AND PUNISHMENT AND EVIL that most people seem fond of throwing him into. He's literally pushed and molded into the role he plays in the world, and he begins to doubt what truly is free will or God's will. He's still selfish at times and he doesn't help people unless it benefits him, don't get me wrong. But he's truly a sympathetic character that makes you wonder about what choices are truly ours and what's in "God's plan" in the long run. Plus, he also just flips a table, says fuck it, leaves hell and opens a bar in LA. How awesome is that? :D

[And if I may make a second suggestion, read Locke and Key if you like any sort of horror that's lovecraftian but not. It's only five volumes right now, with the sixth being released in February, but that gives you plenty of time to catch up!]

In addition to the "classics" I'm really enjoying one that's being written right now: Unwritten. It's sort of like "what if Harry Potter were based on a real, grown up boy?" plus mysteries!

Unwritten: Volume 1

Unwritten: Volume 2

Ontheroadtonowhere wrote:

The Unwritten! I started grabbing the trades a little while ago, and it's pretty quickly become my favorite series ever. It's all one long story (that can be divided into arcs, but it's still one big thing). It's also absolutely gorgeous. I want to wallpaper my house with those covers.

For ongoings, have you checked out Saga? The first two arcs are out and it's on a short break now, but the third should be starting up soon. It's pretty much one big story, too. Clearly defined "stopping points" at the end of the arcs, but it's all the same overarching story.

If you're just looking for longer arcs, and you're into vampires, you should definitely check out American Vampire. One of my favorite things ever. Great stories, great art, written by Scott Snyder who is currently writing the Batman books. Also currently on hiatus, but there are five trades out, and that's supposedly only the first half of the whole story.

(I've also just noticed that the "Customers also bought" section at the bottom of that Unwritten Vol. 1 Amazon page contains the same suggestions. Those are all pretty good options. Sweet Tooth, Fables, Fairest, Locke & Key. I haven't read The Manhattan Projects or Morning Glories, but I've heard good things about them.)

Un written and Lucifer and two different books. Just written by the same author.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Carey_(writer)

Both works were written under the Vertigo imprint (The adult arm of DC comics) and don't have an omnibus or "absolute edition." (Most books printed by Vertigo don't)

You can start here: http://www.amazon.com/Lucifer-Vol-1-Devil-Gateway/dp/1563897334/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370876494&sr=8-1&keywords=lucifer+comic

or here: http://www.amazon.com/Unwritten-Vol-Tommy-Taylor-Identity/dp/1401225659/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370876703&sr=8-1&keywords=unwritten+comic

If you'd like help buying the actual comic book let me know =D Good luck!

I picked up the first collected volume of Unwritten a few days ago. It was good, I recommend it.