One of my favorite comics is one called Bone. It's a nice fantasy tale, and the art is excellent. The author is currently redoing it in color, but the original black and white is excellent. He makes great use of the contrast to make for excellent scenes.
In any case, I was reminded of it because of a post on Neil Gaiman's blog. He's noticed something that I did we I last re-read it. The first time the series really does seem to make a drastic shift in tone, but when you read the second time you discover that it was clearly planned from the beginning. I highly recommend picking it up.

