Hello, my comic-loving friends. I'm putting together a blog of graphic novels with an epidemic/apocalyptic theme for my final YA Lit project and thought I'd get input from you all. It is most definitely a work in progress, but I'd love any feedback: other titles that would fit the theme, other cool links to include, any old thing. Here it is: [link]

ETA: The goal is also to point readers who enjoyed a particular book to other books they might enjoy. The book that I'm using as book x is Y the Last Man (loves it!).

Looks like you're missing The Walking Dead, which is post-zombie apocalypse. Written by Robert Kirkman. I haven't read it, but the people at my comic book store recommend it a lot.

Y the Last Man rules! As you know.

Added! Thanks P-C.

No problem! It was one that was clearly missing, although a reader pointed out to me that it's not exactly appropriate for a YA audience.

Also, according to Wikipedia, the artist changed a few issues in, so you may want to include that in your tags.

Glamcookie, you should really go back and look at the original "Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth" stories by Jack Kirby. A little kitsch now, but still fun.

Ooh, sounds cool! Thanks!

I just started reading Y: The Last Man a few days ago. Yes, it rules, though not quite as much as Ex Machina!

We are so the other way around on this issue. I love Ex Machina, but it's probably my least favorite of BKV's series.

Glam, my friend also suggests The Exterminators by Simon Oliver, which I haven't read. It's "bugs rather than pathogens, but is still very wacky end-of-the-world about the whole thing." A review I just found describes it thusly: "The Exterminators is literature of the Apocalypse delivered through black humor and social class commentary."

The Exterminators is Teh Awesome.

Reading the first volume I thought "this would be such a great TV show" because it had so many character-driven side stories, and the dialogue is great. And of course, then I found out it was originally pitched as a series. And now it may get a second life as one. But anyway: it's ridiculous and silly and scary and I hadn't thought of it as apocalyptic but yeah.

I'll also throw in Army@Love, which is... as apocalyptic as DMZ is, at least. (And I heart DMZ). Army@Love has more of an absurdist/Catch 22 take on it.

The Exterminators is Teh Awesome.

I've seen it and been intrigued, but now I do want to give it a whirl sometime.

I've also been recommended DMZ, but I'm less sure about that one. Then again, I should probably stop pretending I might actually not like something.