swap_horiz Lone Wolf and Cub Alternatives

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The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes is a seminal collection of comic strips created by Bill Watterson. It presents the imagin...

Classic All Ages Bill Watterson Andrews Mcmeel

9.7 Brilliant

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Phoenix (Hi no Tori)

Phoenix is a monumental, unfinished science fiction manga by Osamu Tezuka, started in 1954, exploring themes of reincarn...

Epic Manga Reincarnation Osamu Tezuka

9.3 Excellent

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All-Star Superman

All-Star Superman is a 2005 comic series by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, widely celebrated as a definitive, modern...

Classic Optimistic DC Comics Superman

9.1 Excellent

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Arzach

Arzach is a groundbreaking French comic by artist Moebius featuring a silent warrior riding a pterodactyl, renowned for...

Sci Fi Classic French Wordless

8.9 Great

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Ode to Kirihito

A dramatic medical thriller manga by Osamu Tezuka, serialized in 1970, following a brilliant doctor infected by a diseas...

Vertical Horror Manga Medical

8.9 Great

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Adolf

A critically acclaimed historical drama manga by Osamu Tezuka, published in the 1980s, exploring the intertwined lives o...

Drama Manga World War Ii Osamu Tezuka

8.9 Great

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Ooku: The Inner Chambers

Created by Fumi Yoshinaga in 2005, this Japanese alternate history manga explores a feudal era where a male-killing plag...

Manga Alternate History Gender Viz Media

8.9 Great

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Ping Pong (Taiyo Matsumoto)

A sports manga by Taiyo Matsumoto about two table tennis prodigies, acclaimed for its distinctive art style and award-wi...

Manga Coming Of Age Sports Viz Media

8.9 Great

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Bone: Out from Boneville

The first volume of Jeff Smith's epic fantasy comic series following the Bone cousins' exile from Boneville into a myste...

Fantasy Classic Scholastic All Ages

8.8 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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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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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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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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Billy Bat

A mystery thriller manga by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki that spans multiple decades, investigating a comic bat sy...

Mystery Manga Conspiracy Naoki Urasawa

8.4 Great

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X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills

A landmark 1982 Marvel graphic novel by Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson where the X-Men battle a televangelist who in...

Classic Marvel Civil Rights X Men

8.3 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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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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What a Wonderful World!

A collection of interconnected slice-of-life manga short stories by Inio Asano, exploring the everyday struggles of youn...

Manga Slice Of Life Anthology Viz Media

8.0 Great

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The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

Created by Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki, this Japanese horror manga follows Buddhist students who start a business tr...

Mystery Horror Manga Dark Horse

7.8 Good

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MPD-Psycho

Created by Eiji Otsuka and Shou Tajima, this Japanese psychological horror manga follows a detective with multiple perso...

Horror Manga Crime Dark Horse

7.4 Good