Lev Butts Comic Count Down, Part II
Welcome to the second installment of my second count down . This time around, instead of counting down my favorite novels, I'm discussing my five favorite comics/graphic novels that are in some way metafictional. That is, comics that are on some level aware of themselves as works of fiction. Great, now everyone's doing it. Last month, I discussed Dave Sim's 300 issue saga, Cerebus the Aardvark , which involves a fictional world that includes fictionalized versions of writers from Oscar Wilde to Ernest Hemingway to Dave Sim himself. This month we are looking at an alternate version of the "real" world in which the events of all fiction actually occurred. Now this is a tea,-up I wanna see. 4. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Alan Moore (writer) and Kevin O'Neal (artist) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is essentially Moore's answer to the superhero team-up comics that became popular during the 1960's and 1970's such...