Hi, everyone. Australia is burning, and we’re on the brink of World War III, so, whatever, let’s just list the most influential graphic novels I’ve never read. Yes, I’m ashamed. Hell, I even own some of these. As much as I love comics, these are 20 of the most amazing (as the evidence suggests) graphic novels out there I just haven’t gotten around to yet, but I will, dammit, if the country doesn’t collapse!

• Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
• This One Summer by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki
• Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zsdarsky
• A Contract with God and Other Testaments by Will Eisner
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
• All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
• March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
• Hip Hop Family Tree by Ed Piskor
• El Deafo by Cece Bell
• The New Mutants (Marvel Graphic Novel #4) by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod
• Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
• The Authority by Warren Ellis
• 100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso
• Astro City by Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson
• Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore
• Black Hole by Charles Burns
• Runaways by Brian K. Vaughan by Adrian Alphona
• Almost all of Sandman by Neil Gaiman. Seriously, I’ve only read the first volume of the trade paperbacks, which, I hear, isn’t even remotely the good stuff.

Anyway, thanks, sorry. I deserve your hate and your rotten vegetables