Steampunk?

[meganbmoore]

 Watching Last Exile made me realize that, though I dislike most mecha, I like most steampunk that I've encountered(I think Steamboy is the only exception, off the top of my head...there are likely others if I think about it, though...I just try not to dwell on things I don't care for) but don't seem to run across it a lot, even though I know there's a lot out there..

Anyone want to rec me steampunk or gaslight romances, be they anime, manga or books?  (And tell me if it's available in the US) 

ETA:  wikipedia's page on steampunk 

ETA 2: crumpeteerhas posted very, very brief descriptions of the various "punk" genres here.

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I've had Hellboy recced to me, but never read it. Never heard of Ironwolf, though.

I think Laputa was my first conscious exposure to it, and FMA the first "gig" thing I saw that was steamounk-ish that I identified as such. (LoeG is in a way, too, though I think maybe more gaslight...)

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Ironwolf was Mignola art but other folks writing, and that just never tends to make me quite as happy -- I like his pulp-and-folklore obsession as much as his distinctive visual style. It's not bad, mind you, lots of swashbuckling, but I just somehow never fell in love with it the way I did with the big red guy and his world.

Hellboy, OTOH, I love to distraction. If I had to fit it into a genre I'd say it's ultimately just pure glorious retro pulp (think Tom Strong, perhaps), gleefully mixing elements of myth and magic and SF and ghost stories and plain old war/adventure yarns into a glorious mish-mash.

One more that I forgot, Elizabeth Bear's done some very gaslighty stuff in her "New Amsterdam" stories -- links here (http://www.elizabethbear.com/short.html) where you can read the novella "Lucifugous" online and hear an audiobook version of "Wax".

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I love my swashbuckling...

'Tis a reason Vincent ended up my favorite in LE(that, and there's just something appealing about a guy who's that overwhelmingly devoted to a person, even if she is hung up on someone else.)