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Stormwatch and its sequel The Authority are quite good, as long as you restrict yourself to the issues Warren Ellis and/or Mark Millar wrote--there's a volume called "Under New Management" that I bet you'll enjoy.

You definitely want to check out some of the stuff Brian Michael Bendis has done for Marvel, esp. Daredevil (try "Out") and Alias.

Some people love The Invisibles, some people hate it--it's one of my favorite series ever. A good starting place is the fourth book, "Bloody Hell in America."

By default : Corto Maltese (Pratt), Marshall Blueberry (Giraud), Valerian (Mezieres / Christin).

Some ancillary Batman-related series (Catwoman, Gotham Central) are also good fun - for info on those series, you should check out Ed Brubaker's site.

As far as JLA goes - if you want good ol' rock 'em sock 'em superhero action (albeit BANG! & POW! that throws a good chunk of continuity at you) that's available RIGHT NOW, JSA is where to get that. If you want JLA-related goodness, you'll need to dig up Grant Morrison's run on the title (it's collected in TPs - might be best to start @ the beginning w/ Book 1), as well as his very very very excellent graphic novel _JLA: Earth 2_, featuring great art from Frank Quitely.

All you need to know to be me.

Tom Strong/Top 10/League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore, recently reprinted.

You definitely want to check out some of the stuff Brian Michael Bendis has done for Marvel, esp. Daredevil (try "Out") and Alias.

Yeah, but you definitely definitely want to check out Powers, his self-owned series for Image.

I'll certainly second Morrison's JLA. Do _not_ pick up Kingdom, the "real-life" sequel to Kingdom Come, as I understand it sucked badly.

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I'm looking for comics recommendations.
I don't know much about them but I liked Transmetropolitan, The Invisibles, Blame!, Aeon Flux/Egon Schiele, Akira, Ghost in the shell..
My favorite thing about them are the hard sf bits + the applied anarchism.

Here's some examples of stuff I liked in them:

Transmetropolitan.
He got mind uploading right, there was transhumanist concerns throughout the novel, his idea of extreme future shock for people who wake up from their cryo tank, gagets like smart paint (walls of his appartment as tv screens/video telephone, the junkie assembler-computer in his kitchen, his trademark glasses etc), his fustigation of religions was a bonus. No need to get into the inconsistencies and illogism much more than being surprised A.I and nanotech r not having a bigger impact to improve the overall quality of life of the citizens of Transmet and the way they do politic but as mr Ellis said whatever it's just a comic.

The Invisibles.
It's complicated story, the anarchist/situationist parts esp when king mob give up on violence! Thinking about Sir Arthur C Clarke who once said that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", I could manage with the occult stuff. The conspiracy stuff and some pop culture references got a bit rich (bug eyed aliens? Kula shaker? smart drinks? wtf) but hey! It's a comic that was very generous.

Blame!
It's advanced robots, cyborgs, uploadX0r, mega-structure etc .

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I'm looking for an artist who like the references I dropped to illustrate some ideas that I'm writing (for some sort of a free rhizome/hypermultemidia thing). Anyone interested? / Anyone knows about an online forum where I could ask?

I second Alan Moore's Tom Strong stuff, although Tom Strong itself tends to be good while Tom Strong's Terrific Tales is a bit disposable.

Y The Last Man - this is really good, and I encourage people to read it.

regarding the Invisibles, which I was just thinking about over lunch - I really like the book where they meet Marquis De Sade and go back in time to the French Revolution and then find themselves in "100 Nights of Sodom".

Nice to see you like 100 Bullets... that is probably the best ongoing title out there these days. The writer-artist team who do it are going to be taking over Batman for a bit shortly, I hear.