swap_horiz Fell 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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Transmetropolitan

Transmetropolitan presents a darkly satirical look at a dystopian future. The graphic novel follows Spider Jerusalem, a...

Satire Journalism Cyberpunk Warren Ellis

8.9 Great

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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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Planetary

Created by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday, this late-1990s superhero series features a team investigating the secret his...

Sci Fi Mystery Superhero Warren Ellis

8.7 Great

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Black Hole

Black Hole is a haunting and atmospheric graphic novel set in suburban Seattle, where teenagers are afflicted with a sex...

Horror Comics And Graphic Novel Noir Cyberpunk

8.6 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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Absolute Authority

A deluxe hardcover collection of the 1999 Wildstorm comic series by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, which revolutionized w...

Mature Political Superhero Warren Ellis

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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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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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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Black Magick

A modern noir and dark fantasy comic series created by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott in 2015, centering on a detective who...

Crime Noir Witchcraft Image Comics

7.8 Good

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Desolation Jones

A gritty espionage comic by Warren Ellis and J.H. Williams III, launched in 2005, featuring a former British intelligenc...

Mature Noir Spy Warren Ellis

7.5 Good