I’ve read some Fables because I like The Wolf Among Us, although it was a bit eh. I heard a lot of good things about Sandman so I might look into that. I also came across one called “100 Bullets” which seem cheesy but interesting nonetheless.
I’m looking for something like crime, mystery, or horror (haven’t really seen anything truly horrifying from the west outside of alt comix stuff), but anything works as long as it’s good. Also, preferably no “saving the world” stuff.
It's short (15 floppies/3 trades) but Home Sick Pilots kicks ass.
Set in the 90s, it's the story of two rival highschool aged punk bands, who go into a haunted house. The ghosts in the house animate it, creating essentially a Mecha made of rotten wood and powered by ectoplasm. Very cool visuals. Fair amount of gore if that's an issue.
I'm only like 12 issues in, but Monstress is also super cool visually, it's a fantasy adventure, and includes cat necromancers called nekomancers. It's super dark though, content warnings abound honestly (the primary human civilization in the setting has dehumanized the Arcanics who are basically magical people who may or may not have animal characteristics, because psychic humans can develop magical powers by consuming materials found in Arcanic bodies. It's portrayed as very bad, but I could easily see some people not even wanting to see some of it in the first place).
Gargoyles is about to come back as a comic! I'm pretty excited about that. No backlog to read yet though.
The Wicked and the Divine is super cool, basically once every century or so for the last several thousand years, 12 people, always artists, become incarnations of various gods, sometimes the same as the previous generation of gods, sometimes new ones (but real ones always, Lucifer, Athena, Baal, etc). They use their magic to create art and do performances for people but are the epitome of burning bright and fast, as for some reason, the whole group is always dead within two years. The characters are all (most? I think maybe all) designed to mimic the visual of big real world musicians.
I also have to second Kill Six Billion Demons and Saga. K6BD is a super high flying fantasy kung Fu action adventure and Saga is a story about two soldiers from opposing sides in a galactic conflicts who fall in love. They have a kid and both of their governments want the whole family dead because they don't want a symbol of peace. It's such a good story.
EDIT: forgot to say, first issues of the Wicked and the Divine, Saga, Home Sick Pilots and Monstress are all free on the Image comics site. K6BD is a free webcomic.