swap_horiz Astro City Alternatives

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Miracleman

A superhero comic originally written by Alan Moore in the 1980s, famous for its realistic, violent, and psychological de...

Classic Marvel Superhero Deconstruction

9.0 Excellent

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Kingdom Come

Kingdom Come is a 1996 DC Comics miniseries by Mark Waid and Alex Ross, exploring a dark future where brutal antiheroes...

Dystopian Superhero DC Comics Mark Waid

8.8 Great

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Flex Mentallo

A four-issue 1996 DC Comics miniseries by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, it serves as a surreal deconstruction of sup...

Meta Experimental Superhero Grant Morrison

8.7 Great

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Fourth World Omnibus

Published by DC Comics, this comprehensive hardcover collection compiles Jack Kirby's legendary 1970s Fourth World saga...

Classic Superhero DC Comics Cosmic

8.7 Great

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Ms. Marvel (G. Willow Wilson)

Launched in 2014, this Marvel Comics series by G. Willow Wilson follows Kamala Khan, a Pakistani-American teenager who b...

Marvel Superhero Teen G Willow Wilson

8.6 Great

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Promethea

Promethea is a 1999 comic series by Alan Moore and J.H. Williams III that blends superhero tropes with deep explorations...

Superhero Mystical Female LED Alan Moore

8.6 Great

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Jack Kirby's New Gods

Launched by DC Comics in 1971, Jack Kirby's epic sci-fi series introduces the Fourth World, detailing the cosmic war bet...

Classic Superhero DC Comics Cosmic

8.6 Great

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Animal Man

Revitalized by writer Grant Morrison in 1988, this DC Comics series follows superhero Buddy Baker while exploring themes...

Meta Superhero DC Comics Animal Rights

8.5 Great

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Southern Bastards

Created by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour, this comic explores the violent, football-obsessed culture of Craw County, a fi...

Crime Football Southern Image Comics

8.5 Great

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East of West

Created by Jonathan Hickman, this sci-fi Western comic portrays an alternate-history United States where the Four Horsem...

Sci Fi Epic Alternate History Image Comics

8.5 Great

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Black Hammer

A superhero comic series created by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston in 2016, exploring a group of trapped heroes in a myste...

Literary Superhero Deconstruction Jeff Lemire

8.5 Great

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Sex Criminals

This award-winning Image Comics series by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky follows a couple who can stop time after climax...

Mature Comedy Romance Image Comics

8.4 Great

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King City

Created by Brandon Graham, this 2007 sci-fi graphic novel follows a slacker thief and his genetically altered cat naviga...

Adventure Sci Fi INDIE Image Comics

8.4 Great

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Gideon Falls

A psychological horror comic series created by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino in 2018 that intertwines the lives of a...

Mystery Horror Small Town Jeff Lemire

8.3 Great

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Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E.

A 2006 Marvel Comics series by Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen, celebrated for its absurdist humor and destructive parod...

Satire Marvel Comedy Superhero

8.3 Great

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Prophet (Brandon Graham revival)

Published by Image Comics in 2012, this sci-fi series by Brandon Graham reimagines Rob Liefeld's 1990s superhero into a...

Sci Fi Epic Image Comics Brandon Graham

8.3 Great

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JLA

JLA is a DC Comics series relaunched by Grant Morrison in 1997, featuring the publisher's flagship superheroes tackling...

Epic Team Superhero DC Comics

8.2 Great

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Chew

An Image Comics series created by John Layman and Rob Guillory in 2009, following a cibopath detective who gets psychic...

Sci Fi Crime Image Comics John Layman

8.2 Great

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New York: The Big City

Published in 1981 by Will Eisner, this collection of sequential art short stories explores the daily lives and struggles...

Urban Literary Anthology DC Comics

8.2 Great

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Royal City

An independent comic series by Jeff Lemire launched in 2017 that follows a dysfunctional family haunted by their past in...

Ghost Drama Family Jeff Lemire

8.0 Great