swap_horiz Black Magick Alternatives

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Batman: Year One

Frank Miller’s *Batman: Year One* presents Bruce Wayne’s initial steps into becoming the Dark Knight as a determined pol...

Origin Noir DC Comics Batman

9.1 Excellent

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Scalped

Scalped is a graphic novel series created by Jason Aaron that presents a dark and complex narrative centered around an O...

Crime Native American Noir DC Vertigo

8.9 Great

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The Spirit (Will Eisner)

The Spirit is a classic graphic novel series created by Will Eisner beginning in 1940. It features Denny Colt, a newspap...

Classic Crime DC Comics Golden Age

8.9 Great

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Blacksad

Blacksad is a noir comic series by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido featuring anthropomorphic characters solving cr...

Crime Anthropomorphic Noir 1950S

8.8 Great

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Astro City

Astro City is a superhero comic series created by Kurt Busiek in 1995, renowned for its humanistic exploration of superh...

Superhero Anthology Humanist Kurt Busiek

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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100 Bullets

A noir crime comic published by DC's Vertigo imprint from 1999 to 2009, created by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso, fo...

Crime Noir Conspiracy DC Vertigo

8.5 Great

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MW (Osamu Tezuka)

A psychological thriller manga by Osamu Tezuka about a priest and a sociopathic killer linked by a cover-up involving ch...

Vertical Psychological Manga Crime

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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Queen and Country

Queen and Country is a spy fiction comic series by Greg Rucka detailing the high-stakes operations of British intelligen...

British Thriller Spy Greg Rucka

8.3 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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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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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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Incognegro

Published in 2008 by Vertigo, this mystery graphic novel by Mat Johnson follows a Black reporter passing as white to inv...

Historical Noir Race DC Vertigo

8.1 Great

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Fatale

Created by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, this noir horror comic centers on an immortal femme fatale pursued by a demoni...

Horror Noir Lovecraftian Image Comics

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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Wytches

Created by Scott Snyder and Jock in 2014, this horror comic series follows a family that moves to a rural town stalked b...

Family Horror Witches Image Comics

8.0 Great

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Fell

An experimental crime comic by Warren Ellis and Ben Templesmith, debuting in 2005, following detective Richard Fell in a...

Detective Crime Noir Warren Ellis

7.7 Good