What's a good graphic novel for a beginning comics reader?

Question

I like DC characters the best.

Answer 1

I would recommend Batman:Year One as well as the Tim Sale books if you're a Batman fan.  Identity Crisis is a superb book that features many of the iconic DC heroes;it's one of my personal favorites.  There's a brilliant "alternate reality" book called Red Son that imagines the world if Superman had landed in the USSR rather than in the US.  Some of the Vertigo books are excellent especially the collected Sandman works, the Fables books as well as the Swamp Things works (Alan Moore).  Speaking of Alan Moore, Watchmen is amazing as is V For Vendetta.  I would also recommend The Long Bow Hunter Green Arrow books and the collected early Animal Man (by Grant Morrison).  And there is, of course, 300 by Frank Miller. I hope that helps!

Answer 2

Sin City (the hard goodbye)