cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5147313

It's been a while since I have read any comic books. Been wanting to read one.

I am not an avid comic book reader. I would say capeshit is discouraged but feel free to recommend it if you want. I will leave it at your discretion. Any genre is fine except horror. Need something that has finished the run or at least has a good number of issues out so I can binge.

These are the ones I have read so far to give you an idea. But recommendations do not have to conform this list:

  1. Transformers: More Than Meets the Eyes is my favourite because of the heartfelt characters and great humour
  2. The Sandman. It's a classic and I liked it.
  3. East of West. I thought it was interesting but it didn't quite grab me.
  4. The 12 issue run of Mister Miracle. I thought what there was of it was good but it wasn't meaty enough IMO.
  5. Jeff Lemire run of Moon Knight. This was good.
  6. Saga. I read it until the hiatus. Liked it.
  • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    I'm not sure if this counts as horror, but Home Sick Pilots was pretty cool.

    15 issue run, it's completed, and is about a teen punk band that goes into a haunted house, a lot of them die (it sounds pretty horror at this point, I know) and the survivor ends up bonded with the ghosts and pilots the house around as a mech made out of rotting wood and powered by ghosts.

    I haven't finished it, but I really liked the first 20 or so issues of Monstress which is dark fantasy story set in a world with humans, sentient cats, "ancients" which are immortal demigods (and also furries), and arcanics, who are the descendants of humans who had children with ancients and may or may not have any animal traits. It's set in the aftermath of a war between the humans and arcanics (cw here there's a lot of bigotry and dehumanization between them, mostly coming from the human side). It's about an arcanic woman who is on a quest to learn more about her family history and a monster/demon that has bound itself to her. The art is gorgeous but the story gets pretty dark at times.

  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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    4 months ago

    A few off the dome:

    Alan Moore:

    Top 10
    Promethea
    Tom Strong
    The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

    Grant Morrison:

    Invisibles
    Animal Man
    All Star Superman

    Kurt Busiek:

    Astro City

    Warren Ellis (recently canceled, unfortunately) :

    Planetary
    Global Frequency
    Super Gods

    Brian Azerello:

    100 Bullets

    Rick Remender:

    Black Science

    Johnathan Hickman:

    The Manhattan Projects

    Brian K. Vaughn:

    Y: The Last Man
    Paper Girls

    Brandon Graham:

    Prophet (2012)