The Incomparable, number 526, August 2020.

Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.

I'm your host, Jason Snell, and this episode is a very special one.

It's a meeting of our comic book club, but what we're going to do is something a little bit different,

something we've done with the book club a few times.

I feel like comic books sometimes and graphic novels are super intimidating because so many things are like ongoing series and there's continuity and you don't know where to jump in.

And also that I will say graphic novels sometimes get short shrift because people are very focused on like big names and ongoing stories when

they should be finding really nice graphic novels that stand alone. And the goal of this episode

is to assemble a reading list of possible things for you to read to pick up a comic book,

pick up a graphic novel. It's going to be something that you don't have to have done any

previous homework to read. It's going to be available in a collection or trade or graphic novel. It's going to be something that you don't have to have done any previous homework to read. It's going to be available in a collection or trade or a graphic novel,

so you're not going to have to go buy comic book issues if you even have a comic book store or anything

like that. We're going to try to make it super easy. Good stuff for you to read on the comic book

side, on the graphic novel side. Joining me to assemble our reading list today.

Are the following wonderful people in the order in which they will pick, not quite a draft,

but similar.

It's a cousin to the draft.

David J. Lour is here.

Hello.

Hello.

All I can say is crackathoom.

Okay, good, excellent.

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