Hobo Lobo of Hamelin. Romantically Apocalyptic. Five Noir Comic Books You Need To Read. With a high-contrast, perfectly-detailed art style, Argentine comic book creator Eduardo Risso became synonymous with the crime comic in the United States with 100 Bullets, his Vertigo title with writer Brian Azzarello. That comic has recently been revived in the form of a miniseries dedicated to series regular Brother Lono, which showed that the duo's love of their characters had not dulled a bit in the intervening half-decade. In fact, it seems like their 2011 collaboration Spaceman might have let them work out their niceties entirely and focus on the seedier stuff. It seems logical, then, that if you make comics about brutal criminals, you'd want to make comics about their opposition. The recent Batman Noir: Eduardo Risso deluxe hardcover collects Azzarello and Risso's entire output featuring the Dark Knight, stripped completely of color and presented in harsh black and white.
You could easily debate Azzarello's take on Batman, though. Hellboy Reading Order. As a big fan of Hellboy (and the excellent spin-off, BPRD) I thought it might be helpful to put together a complete reading order for the entire series. Those who have read the first three trade-paperback collections might have noticed that the published order isn't the order you should actually read the stories in. Very confusing for first time readers! Of course a reading order can be tricky to judge because it's perfectly usual for Hellboy's timeline to jump around the place and without any serious knock-on effect to any other story.
With this in mind I only mark stories in RED that require you to read them in order. Stories in BLACK are related to the stories in red, but can be read at any time. The other stories (those in GREY) can be read at absolutely any time and are completely stand-alone. So if you want to mix it around, you can now make your own decisions as to what to read next. How to use this reading order:Just start at the top and work your way down. Enjoy! Red Meat. XKCD. Modern Toss. Moonbeard. Gunshow. A Softer World. Garfield Minus Garfield. Married to the Sea. Cyanide & Happiness.