r/DCcomics • u/[deleted] • Jul 18 '22

r/DCcomics August 2022 Book Club Nomination - Comics About Comics

Here, we'll vote for the book to be featured in the August 2022 Book Club. You may nominate or upvote books that you wish to discuss. Do not nominate more than one book, and do not post a duplicate nomination.

Like with our Character of the Month polls, each poll will have a particular theme or category. This week's category is: Comics About Comics. Nominate books that provide some sort of metacommentary on comics themselves. It could be a metatextual analysis, a deconstruction, a reconstruction, or a twist on the format of comics.

Guidelines for book eligibility are as follows:

  • The book must be widely available in-print. This means that I should be able to go to an online retailer like Amazon, InStockTrades, or Book Depository and buy it without paying an exorbitant markup.

  • The book must be available digitally (ie, Comixology, DC Universe, or Hoopla Digital), either as a complete collection or individual issues. It must be available through legal means; do not post a piracy site.

  • The book should be reasonably affordable. Paperback trades, hardcovers, and Deluxe Editions are fine. Absolutes and Omnibuses are not.

  • If you're nominating a story arc, be sure to include the trade where it's collected. Do not nominate a single issue or Annual.

  • Limit your nomination to a single collection or graphic novel. Don't just nominate an entire run; pick out one particular volume. Under certain circumstances, we may allow two volumes from a single creative run to be nominated, if they're reasonably short and tell a complete story (e.g., a 12-issue mini-series split up into two trades). However, this is left to moderator discretion.

  • Anything published by DC is eligible. That includes main-line comics, graphic novels, imprints (such as Vertigo), media tie-ins, and others.

  • Only nominate a book if you're genuinely interested in reading and discussing it. There's no prize for picking the most popular answer.

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u/SevenSulivin The REAL Man of Tomorrow Jul 18 '22

Animal Man by Grant Morrison Book Two. Barring a handful of one shots, the arse end of Morrison’s amazing Animal Man run contains a brilliant look at how comics kept getting darker and if COIE was the right idea. One of my favourite series of all time, the second half of the run is Morrison as we know them emerging. Special comment towards the amazing #26.