Here for your reading consideration is a trio of 2012 graphic novels that have received a wide range of strong reviews and recommendations:
The Underwater Welder (M)
by
Jeff Lemire

"Pressure. As an underwater welder on an oilrig off the coast of Nova
Scotia, Jack Joseph is used to the immense pressures of deep-sea work.
Nothing, however, could prepare him for the pressures of impending
fatherhood. As Jack dives deeper and deeper, he seems to pull further
and further away from his young wife and their unborn son. But then,
something happens deep on the ocean floor. Jack has a strange and
mind-bending encounter that will change the course of his life forever!
Equal parts blue-collar character study and mind-bending science fiction
epic, The Underwater Welder explores fathers and sons, birth and death,
memory and truth, and the treasures we all bury deep down inside." - Publisher
Bloody Chester (M)
written by
JT Petty ; illustrated by
Hilary Florido ; colored by
Hilary Sycamore

"A deliciously gruesome horror tale set in the old west.
This isn’t John Wayne’s heroic old west
. This
is the real deal: a filthy, disease-ridden frontier populated by
losers, lunatics, and murderers. And when you’re a skinny teenager with
no family and a name like Chester Kates, your options are limited. It’s
stand up and fight or roll over and die, so Chester, aka “Lady Kate,” is
set to fight until it kills him. It isn’t much of a life, but it’s at least straightforward. Until
things go all cockeyed when Chester is hired to ride his horse (also
named Chester) to a ghost town and burn it to the ground. Except the
ghost town doesn’t just boast a tidy collection of mangled corpses: it
also has three living inhabitants . . . who won’t be budged. But
Chester’s been hired for a job, and he’ll be damned if he doesn’t burn
the town to the last cinder. Thing is, he may just be damned if he does. This
horror-Western-mystery graphic novel will send a thrill—and a
chill—down your spine. Funny, fascinating, and downright horrible, this
is a book that keeps you turning the pages." - Publisher
Goliath (M)
by
Tom Gauld

"This story reworks the David-and-Goliath myth. Goliath
of Gath isn't much of a fighter. Given half a choice, he would pick
administrative work over patrolling in a heartbeat, to say nothing of
his distaste for engaging in combat. Nonetheless, at the behest of the
king, he finds himself issuing a twice daily challenge to the
Israelites: "Choose a man. Let him come to me that we may fight. If he
be able to kill me then we shall be your servants. But if I kill him,
then you shall be our servants." Day after day he reluctantly repeats
his speech, and the isolation of this duty gives him the chance to
banter with his shield-bearer and reflect on the beauty of his
surroundings. Goliath's battle is simultaneously tragic and bleakly
funny, as bureaucracy pervades even this most mythic of figures." - Publisher
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