Amazing fantasy novels: Way of kings And Mistborn by Brandon sanderson. Blood Song by Anthony Ryan. Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks. As for comics, Dungeons and Dragons by John rogers is really great. Skullkickers by Jim Zub is a great read and of course Conan by Busiek or Roy Thomas is a great choice. Joe the Barbarian is one of my favorites but not sure if that classifies as fantasy.
This was great, I'm a fantasy geek like many of you but in the comic medium I always struggle to find good high fantasy type stories. These were cool suggestions but if you have more I'd love to tune in and hear them!! Keep up the great content.
@@buttersstotch3251 normally I dislike comments like this. It's generally fanboys of a certain older property salty their IP didn't catch. But in this instance, seriously Geralt is a copy paste, its kind of ridiculous. The new French market reprints/reboots are supposed to be fantastic. Maybe look there?
These all sound really good. I’ve been eyeing I Hate Fairyland for a while now and love how misleading it is. For book recs, I think you might really enjoy the First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie.
Great video! Another two series that I never heard about added to the wishlist. I like your passion for these books, Mike, it shows and it’s relatable!
Oh my gawd. I hate fairyland was a book that I refused to read because all I knew of Scottie Young was his variant covers but wow, what a fun read. The narrators throughout had me in stitches. I’ve added some new titles to my wishlist. Thank you and keep up the awesome content.
I'd recommend the KANE books by the late Karl Edward Wagner. It's dark fantasy with a lead character that's a true anti hero. Great stories with an interesting character. Of course there's also the stories by Robert E Howard that are very good like Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane & Bran Mak Morn. Also the Guin Saga is a series of books from Japan . It's a fantasy story that even spawned it's own anime series. Only some of the books have been translated into English as it was a long running series of novels in Japan.
Red Rising by Pierce Brown. It's more of a Sci-Fi series but has many fantasy elements in it and The First Law by Joe Abercrombie. Also what I consider to be the best modern fantasy story which is The Stormlighrt Archive by Brandon Sandorson.
Novel suggestions: Dragonlance is a great fantasy novel series, although I do not know if it holds up to a first time read for adults. I read it as a kid, so I still love it partially out of nostalgia, but you have to be okay with it being basically a Young Adventure series. If you are okay with that kind of thing, I'd also suggest the Madeleine L'Engle Wrinkle in Time series and the Ursula K. Le Guin Earthsea series. And of course, the Darksword series by the same authors as Dragonlance. Not to mention the Moorcock novels. (I'm actually reading the Elric novel for my first time right now.) If you want to read some pulp-action fantasy, the Philip José Farmer World of Tiers series is light fun with a sci-fi tinge. Also, I wanted to say, those two Valiant series you introduced illustrate, to me at least, what I love most about Valiant: they know how to do a shared universe well. They focus on strong self-contained stories, with crossover continuity present as an "icing on the cake" factor. I love it.
Have you come across Cerebus? It started really well but got harder and harder to read. I gave up towards the end thus fulfilling Dave Sims prophecy that Cerebus would die alone and unloved.
As far as fantasy comics; Tellos and Warlands got me back into comics (long ago), but Warlands never got collected and Tellos is long-out-of-print. CrossGen's fantasy fare kept me in comics for a long while, but Scion, Sojourn, Meridian, and Way of the Rat likewise long-out-of-print and buried deep in the Marvel/Disney vault. Beyond that....Um, Beyond the Western Deep is essentially a Redwall comic. That's the only current fantasy comic I even sort of follow. Well, at least Savage Sword of Conan is getting re-released. And maybe I'll try the Elric books at some point. The price seems reasonable...
Thanks for recommending Elric, one of my favorite characters ever. I`m wondering what Hollywood is waiting for. Movies adapted from the novels would rival LOTR. Roy Thomas & P. Craig Russell`s Dreaming City is my favorite adaption.
Carlos Day Pomar Enders Game was one of my first sci-fi love affairs many years ago... I wonder how it would hold up now... I have read The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear! Brilliant stories!
For Elric, how many different editions/adaptations vol there are beside this collection? And are they the same storyline? I got this collection after you recommended them but Vol 2 was so different than yours. Do you recommend them? Thanks so much!
you should get elric the ruby throne by julien blondel . they have both a hardcover and delux hardcover. i dont have the deluxe so i dont know whats so deluxe about it. that eternal warrior sounds great. too bad prices are so high. i am really enjoying the kurt busiek and tim truman conan epic collection. and i hope that isola gets the deluxe hardcover treatment . i am struggling whether to upgrade from my montress trades to the hardcover.
if you like I HAte Fairy Land, check out MiddleWest from the same creators. Also check out Sera and the Royal Stars from Vault Comics, its like a far east influenced Fantasy.
Great channel and really enjoy your videos, especially the not so well known graphic novels. Very informative and by the end of the video buying more books lol Would you be able to give me a starting point or recommendations in the Valiant Universe?
Dean Brooks The best place to start is the 2012 reboot if you can go back that far. For the most part, each new Valiant series is a good jumping on point. The writers do a great job of maintaining the continuity without depending on it in each story, so it’s easy to jump in
@@TheHardcoverComic Thanks for that, l will definitely look into starting a series. After your video l purchased Britannia and I hate fairyland. Amazing artwork.
Thanks for the post, you’ve given me some good suggestions. In return I’ll suggest a fantasy novel-The Sleeping Dragon. It’s the first book in the guardians of the flames series by Joel Rosenberg. You will fall in love with many of the characters if you give it a chance.
I luv that u chose "I Hate Fairyland" as one of ur 5! I recently read the 1st issue online, & immediately ordered the 1st deluxe edition, lol! I haven't gotten to get into it yet, but I could tell how hilarious it was from that 1st issue! And I knew Scottie Young would be perfect for this because I have the 1st 3 HCs of the "Oz" books he drew that were adapted by Eric Shanower, & his art just fits that type of fantasy so well(even though "I Hate Fairyland" has the ultra violent sword & sorcery elements the "Oz" books didn't, lol). Awesome choice! I look forward to reading the rest of it(still working my way thru other titles... & as u guys know, due to my "brain issues" & desire to really drool over the artwork, I'm a slow reader, & am unable to read prose novels anymore, sadly.😔 So I won't be able to recommend any prose sword & sorcery stuff, as "The Lord of the Rings" is one of, if not my favorite story of all-time, but u've read that already; & I didn't really read any other prose sword & sorcery before losing my ability to read prose-- so, unfortunately I have nothing to recommend; but I'll give a couple of comics recommendations!😉). My top recommendations would be "The Mice Templar" from Image, "Helheim" & "Brides of Helheim" from Oni Press, "Alpha King" from Image & 3 Floyds(it is crazy, hilarious & has some funtastical art by Simon Bisley!), the various "John Carter/Warlord of Mars" series from Dynamite(although I guess those would be "sword & planet", but pretty close, lol), "Elias the Cursed" from Humanoids(brutal, funny, & just really entertaining in that uniquely European graphic album way!), & of course.... "Conan". I have virtually all of the Dark Horse trades, & I've loved every one that I've read! I've not read the old or new Marvel stuff, but plan to give it a shot! All of these titles I mentioned have stellar artwork(aside from the "John Carter/Warlord of Mars" stuff, which is hit or miss, imho; and a few of the "Conan" stories/crossovers have mediocre art, but most of the Dark Horse stuff is fantastic!)! Another fun video, Mike! Thanx a fluffin' lot!!!😄👍🏻👍🏻
Chewy 16 Thank you for the suggestions! I remember reading Alpha Kings as it was coming out! I was in Indiana at the time and they always had a 3 Floyd’s on tap and I became obsessed - coincidentally the comic was coming out at the same time lol I have always wanted to check out Mice Templars, thank you for the reminder!
@@TheHardcoverComic You're most welcome! Hope u like them if u get a chance to check them out! And it sounds like u, 3 Floyd's, & the "Alpha Kings" comic were destined to meet! As Uhtred son of Uhtred, from Netflix's awesome viking series, "The Last Kingdom"(Really excellent show! U should check it out if u have Netflix! Season 4 just came out not too long ago!) would say... "Destiny is all."😉
Thomas Judge No sir I haven’t! I did start it and got two novels in - that is a fantastic reminder and will probably be what consumes my summer now... Thank you!
@@TheHardcoverComic They are hands down the best fantasy I've ever read! When I do a library vid, you'll see I have them all in a beautiful matching spine format! :)
Amazing fantasy novels: Way of kings And Mistborn by Brandon sanderson. Blood Song by Anthony Ryan. Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks. As for comics, Dungeons and Dragons by John rogers is really great. Skullkickers by Jim Zub is a great read and of course Conan by Busiek or Roy Thomas is a great choice. Joe the Barbarian is one of my favorites but not sure if that classifies as fantasy.
This was great, I'm a fantasy geek like many of you but in the comic medium I always struggle to find good high fantasy type stories. These were cool suggestions but if you have more I'd love to tune in and hear them!! Keep up the great content.
My man killing it with the content recently
Thank you for spending time on Elric!
Berserk and The Witcher
Elric is the original witcher before Sapkowski stole Elric and called him Geralt
@@buttersstotch3251 normally I dislike comments like this. It's generally fanboys of a certain older property salty their IP didn't catch. But in this instance, seriously Geralt is a copy paste, its kind of ridiculous. The new French market reprints/reboots are supposed to be fantastic. Maybe look there?
RIP to the berserk creator
U see, berserk is manga
Sad that berserk will never be finished
The "Black Blade" song by Blue Oyster Cult is what got me into Elric.💥
These all sound really good. I’ve been eyeing I Hate Fairyland for a while now and love how misleading it is. For book recs, I think you might really enjoy the First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie.
I’d say bone has to be up here as well that was one of my favorite comics ever
Great video! Another two series that I never heard about added to the wishlist. I like your passion for these books, Mike, it shows and it’s relatable!
Oh my gawd. I hate fairyland was a book that I refused to read because all I knew of Scottie Young was his variant covers but wow, what a fun read. The narrators throughout had me in stitches. I’ve added some new titles to my wishlist. Thank you and keep up the awesome content.
As far as fantasy novels, I read dragonlance back in the day and really enjoyed.
Titan is doing the french translation glenat publishing elric of melibone by Robin recht 3 volumes in euro sized albums
I'd recommend the KANE books by the late Karl Edward Wagner. It's dark fantasy with a lead character that's a true anti hero. Great stories with an interesting character. Of course there's also the stories by Robert E Howard that are very good like Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane & Bran Mak Morn. Also the Guin Saga is a series of books from Japan . It's a fantasy story that even spawned it's own anime series. Only some of the books have been translated into English as it was a long running series of novels in Japan.
Where are you, I need more recommendations!!
Red Rising by Pierce Brown. It's more of a Sci-Fi series but has many fantasy elements in it and The First Law by Joe Abercrombie. Also what I consider to be the best modern fantasy story which is The Stormlighrt Archive by Brandon Sandorson.
All great reads. One of them actually fits on the sword and sorcery genre
Lol
Novel suggestions: Dragonlance is a great fantasy novel series, although I do not know if it holds up to a first time read for adults. I read it as a kid, so I still love it partially out of nostalgia, but you have to be okay with it being basically a Young Adventure series. If you are okay with that kind of thing, I'd also suggest the Madeleine L'Engle Wrinkle in Time series and the Ursula K. Le Guin Earthsea series. And of course, the Darksword series by the same authors as Dragonlance. Not to mention the Moorcock novels. (I'm actually reading the Elric novel for my first time right now.) If you want to read some pulp-action fantasy, the Philip José Farmer World of Tiers series is light fun with a sci-fi tinge.
Also, I wanted to say, those two Valiant series you introduced illustrate, to me at least, what I love most about Valiant: they know how to do a shared universe well. They focus on strong self-contained stories, with crossover continuity present as an "icing on the cake" factor. I love it.
Have you come across Cerebus?
It started really well but got harder and harder to read. I gave up towards the end thus fulfilling Dave Sims prophecy that Cerebus would die alone and unloved.
As far as fantasy comics; Tellos and Warlands got me back into comics (long ago), but Warlands never got collected and Tellos is long-out-of-print. CrossGen's fantasy fare kept me in comics for a long while, but Scion, Sojourn, Meridian, and Way of the Rat likewise long-out-of-print and buried deep in the Marvel/Disney vault. Beyond that....Um, Beyond the Western Deep is essentially a Redwall comic. That's the only current fantasy comic I even sort of follow.
Well, at least Savage Sword of Conan is getting re-released. And maybe I'll try the Elric books at some point. The price seems reasonable...
Great video! Can I read the elric stories out of order? I found weird of the white wolf at hpb
Thanks for recommending Elric, one of my favorite characters ever. I`m wondering what Hollywood is waiting for. Movies adapted from the novels would rival LOTR. Roy Thomas & P. Craig Russell`s Dreaming City is my favorite adaption.
Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss and The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch are both great fantasy novels.
Daniel Sage Have read and loved them both!!
hey mike! ever read the name of the wind? my gf loves that one... Enders Game is a great book but its sci fi fantasy more than swords and sandals
Carlos Day Pomar Enders Game was one of my first sci-fi love affairs many years ago... I wonder how it would hold up now...
I have read The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear! Brilliant stories!
Damn fine review of Moorcock's Elric books.
Again so many interesting books I ve never heard of. thank you for the reccomendations!
For Elric, how many different editions/adaptations vol there are beside this collection? And are they the same storyline? I got this collection after you recommended them but Vol 2 was so different than yours. Do you recommend them? Thanks so much!
The author of Elric says it doesn't matter how you say the name nor any of the others, say them how they work best for you.
you should get elric the ruby throne by julien blondel . they have both a hardcover and delux hardcover. i dont have the deluxe so i dont know whats so deluxe about it. that eternal warrior sounds great. too bad prices are so high. i am really enjoying the kurt busiek and tim truman conan epic collection. and i hope that isola gets the deluxe hardcover treatment . i am struggling whether to upgrade from my montress trades to the hardcover.
if you like I HAte Fairy Land, check out MiddleWest from the same creators. Also check out Sera and the Royal Stars from Vault Comics, its like a far east influenced Fantasy.
Great channel and really enjoy your videos, especially the not so well known graphic novels. Very informative and by the end of the video buying more books lol
Would you be able to give me a starting point or recommendations in the Valiant Universe?
Dean Brooks The best place to start is the 2012 reboot if you can go back that far. For the most part, each new Valiant series is a good jumping on point. The writers do a great job of maintaining the continuity without depending on it in each story, so it’s easy to jump in
@@TheHardcoverComic Thanks for that, l will definitely look into starting a series. After your video l purchased Britannia and I hate fairyland. Amazing artwork.
Thanks for the post, you’ve given me some good suggestions. In return I’ll suggest a fantasy novel-The Sleeping Dragon. It’s the first book in the guardians of the flames series by Joel Rosenberg. You will fall in love with many of the characters if you give it a chance.
Nice video..however can you turn up your mic its hard to hear you
Thank you for great recommendations! I think that The ElfQuest saga may fit into this list as well.
Boris Fedyukin Good call! Another series I have seen around and never read - thank you for the reminder!
I'm not long into comic books (yet), but I'd recommend a short but fun story, Koschei the Deathless.
Try the 'Tale of the Manticore' podcast for some dark fantasy
Love your recommendations. But some of the shown book are not available ?anymore?. Kinda sad.
systemo20 Always available digitally!
@@TheHardcoverComic I want the books. Like allmost everybody else! :(
Did you ever read Mice Templar?
Your video content are of high quality. I got a lot of good comics suggestions from them.
Augustine George Thank you! Got more on the way!
Try wizards first rule
Thorgal and lament of the lost moors cinebook publishing super art
Thanks a lot my dude
You have good taste
Thank you !!
The Mist born Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson- mind blowing fantasy series with unbelievable writing!
didnt know it was a comic??? Malazan world is screaming out for a graphic novel adaptation!
Great recommendations there.
Titan comics Robert recht elric of melibone
Yeah the elric of titan comics is the best imo
Yeah the elric of titan comics is the best imo
Great list! I Hate Fairyland is so good!
I luv that u chose "I Hate Fairyland" as one of ur 5! I recently read the 1st issue online, & immediately ordered the 1st deluxe edition, lol! I haven't gotten to get into it yet, but I could tell how hilarious it was from that 1st issue! And I knew Scottie Young would be perfect for this because I have the 1st 3 HCs of the "Oz" books he drew that were adapted by Eric Shanower, & his art just fits that type of fantasy so well(even though "I Hate Fairyland" has the ultra violent sword & sorcery elements the "Oz" books didn't, lol). Awesome choice! I look forward to reading the rest of it(still working my way thru other titles... & as u guys know, due to my "brain issues" & desire to really drool over the artwork, I'm a slow reader, & am unable to read prose novels anymore, sadly.😔 So I won't be able to recommend any prose sword & sorcery stuff, as "The Lord of the Rings" is one of, if not my favorite story of all-time, but u've read that already; & I didn't really read any other prose sword & sorcery before losing my ability to read prose-- so, unfortunately I have nothing to recommend; but I'll give a couple of comics recommendations!😉). My top recommendations would be "The Mice Templar" from Image, "Helheim" & "Brides of Helheim" from Oni Press, "Alpha King" from Image & 3 Floyds(it is crazy, hilarious & has some funtastical art by Simon Bisley!), the various "John Carter/Warlord of Mars" series from Dynamite(although I guess those would be "sword & planet", but pretty close, lol), "Elias the Cursed" from Humanoids(brutal, funny, & just really entertaining in that uniquely European graphic album way!), & of course.... "Conan". I have virtually all of the Dark Horse trades, & I've loved every one that I've read! I've not read the old or new Marvel stuff, but plan to give it a shot! All of these titles I mentioned have stellar artwork(aside from the "John Carter/Warlord of Mars" stuff, which is hit or miss, imho; and a few of the "Conan" stories/crossovers have mediocre art, but most of the Dark Horse stuff is fantastic!)! Another fun video, Mike! Thanx a fluffin' lot!!!😄👍🏻👍🏻
Chewy 16 Thank you for the suggestions! I remember reading Alpha Kings as it was coming out! I was in Indiana at the time and they always had a 3 Floyd’s on tap and I became obsessed - coincidentally the comic was coming out at the same time lol
I have always wanted to check out Mice Templars, thank you for the reminder!
@@TheHardcoverComic You're most welcome! Hope u like them if u get a chance to check them out! And it sounds like u, 3 Floyd's, & the "Alpha Kings" comic were destined to meet! As Uhtred son of Uhtred, from Netflix's awesome viking series, "The Last Kingdom"(Really excellent show! U should check it out if u have Netflix! Season 4 just came out not too long ago!) would say... "Destiny is all."😉
Conan?
Autumn lands by kurt busiek image comics
Love the video but if we're talking about fantasy comics and we don't discuss Seven to Eternity, we've missed the mark...
Good picks, I subbed! I'd love your thoughts on our fantasy webseries Spellfury, we just released a new episode
The Percy Jackson series is what got me into reading
Did you know they are available as graphic novels?
@@jimjimith whut mate ? Really ?
@@Masterlordrx yeah published by hyperion press
Name of the wind. Check it out :)
I hate fairyland is just awesome! As for fantasy recommendations... I have to assume that you've read the entire Wheel of Time series?!
Thomas Judge No sir I haven’t! I did start it and got two novels in - that is a fantastic reminder and will probably be what consumes my summer now... Thank you!
@@TheHardcoverComic They are hands down the best fantasy I've ever read! When I do a library vid, you'll see I have them all in a beautiful matching spine format! :)
Northlanders, the new elric remakes and slaine the horned god
Elves insight comics
Throne of ice humanoids swords of glass humanoids
Berserk
get tge french elrik
Mask of fudo humanoids
i feel like you need a script you take years to get to the point and you say "umm" or "uh" so much i couldnt continue to watch.