swap_horiz Black Hammer Alternatives

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Palomar (Heartbreak Soup)

Palomar is a fictional Central American town created by Gilbert Hernandez in the 1980s, serving as the influential setti...

Magical Realism Literary Fantagraphics Latinx

9.2 Excellent

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Lone Wolf and Cub

Lone Wolf and Cub is a landmark samurai manga created by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima in 1970, following an assassin an...

Classic Manga Samurai Dark Horse

9.2 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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Daytripper

Daytripper is a 2010 graphic novel by Brazilian twin brothers Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá that explores mortality through...

Literary DC Vertigo Fabio Moon Gabriel Ba

8.8 Great

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Clyde Fans

Created by Canadian cartoonist Seth, this literary graphic novel details the decades-long decline of a fictional oscilla...

Family Melancholy Literary Drawn And Quarterly

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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Building Stories

Building Stories is a 2012 graphic novel by American cartoonist Chris Ware, uniquely published as a boxed set of various...

Experimental Literary Pantheon Chris Ware

8.6 Great

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American Splendor

American Splendor is an autobiographical comic series created by Harvey Pekar in 1976, celebrated for its mundane yet pr...

Slice Of Life Memoir Working Class Dark Horse

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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It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken

Published in 1996 by Canadian cartoonist Seth, this graphic novel follows a man's obsessive search for an obscure mid-ce...

Nostalgia Literary Memoir Drawn And Quarterly

8.6 Great

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The Underwater Welder

A 2012 graphic novel by Jeff Lemire about a deep-sea diver facing supernatural occurrences and personal ghosts while wor...

Psychological Literary Fatherhood Shelf

8.4 Great

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Mind MGMT

A sci-fi espionage comic series created by Matt Kindt in 2012, detailing a government agency of psychic spies and the jo...

Thriller Spy Psychic Dark Horse

8.3 Great

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Essex County

Essex County is a 2008 Canadian graphic novel by Jeff Lemire, collecting three interconnected stories that explore rural...

Canada Literary Rural Shelf

8.2 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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Umbrella Academy

Created by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, this Dark Horse comic follows a dysfunctional family of adopted superheroes who re...

Quirky Superhero Dysfunctional Family Dark Horse

8.0 Great

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Ice Haven

Ice Haven is a 2005 graphic novel by Daniel Clowes that interweaves multiple character perspectives to portray a darkly...

Experimental Crime Literary Pantheon

8.0 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

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George Sprott

Created by Canadian cartoonist Seth, this 2009 graphic novel pieces together the fragmented memories of an aging, fading...

Melancholy Literary Biography Drawn And Quarterly

8.0 Great

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Alice in Sunderland

A 2007 graphic novel by Bryan Talbot that explores the local history of Sunderland, England, and its potential connectio...

Experimental British Literary Dark Horse

7.9 Good