swap_horiz Transmetropolitan 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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Sandman

The Sandman is a critically acclaimed graphic novel series by Neil Gaiman and Sam Kieth published by Vertigo Comics. It...

Fantasy Mythology DC Comics Neil Gaiman

9.5 Brilliant

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The Incal

The Incal is a seminal French sci-fi graphic novel by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius, following John DiFool in a surre...

Sci Fi French Jodorowsky Surreal

9.3 Excellent

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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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Swamp Thing (Alan Moore)

A defining 1980s horror comic run by Alan Moore that redefined the titular character as an elemental entity, introducing...

Horror Environment 1980S DC Vertigo

9.2 Excellent

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Safe Area Gorazde

Published in 2000 by Maltese-American cartoonist Joe Sacco, this graphic journalism work documents the brutal realities...

Journalism War Joe Sacco Fantagraphics

9.0 Excellent

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Brief Lives (Sandman Vol. 7)

The seventh volume of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, following Dream and Delirium's search for their missing brother Dest...

Fantasy Mythology Road Trip Neil Gaiman

9.0 Excellent

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Scalped

Scalped is a gritty, noir-infused crime series by Jason Aaron set on a fictional Native American reservation in South Da...

Crime Native American Noir DC Vertigo

8.9 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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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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We3

We3 is a poignant 2004 graphic novel by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely about three kidnapped pets weaponized as cyborg...

Sci Fi Emotional Animals Grant Morrison

8.6 Great

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Safe Area Goražde

Safe Area Goražde is a 2000 graphic novel by Joe Sacco that utilizes his signature comics journalism to depict the bruta...

Journalism War Joe Sacco Fantagraphics

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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Fables

Created by Bill Willingham in 2002, this DC/Vertigo comic series follows fairy tale characters living secretly in modern...

Fantasy Mature Fairy Tale DC Vertigo

8.4 Great

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Stuck Rubber Baby

Stuck Rubber Baby is a 1995 graphic novel by Howard Cruse exploring the intersecting struggles of homophobia and racism...

Lgbtq+ Memoir Civil Rights DC Vertigo

8.3 Great

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The Book of Magic

Published by DC Comics in 1990, this supernatural comic series by Neil Gaiman follows a young boy destined to become the...

Fantasy Coming Of Age Magic Neil Gaiman

8.3 Great

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Pride of Baghdad

This 2006 graphic novel by Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon follows a pride of lions escaping the Baghdad Zoo during...

War Iraq Animals DC Vertigo

8.2 Great

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Bitch Planet

This feminist sci-fi comic series by Kelly Sue DeConnick depicts a dystopian future where non-compliant women are impris...

Sci Fi Satire Feminist Image Comics

7.9 Good

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War Is Boring

Published in 2010, this work of graphic journalism by David Axe and Matt Bors details the author's firsthand experiences...

Journalism War Memoir David Axe

7.5 Good

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Tokyo Ghost

Tokyo Ghost is an Image Comics series by Rick Remender depicting a dystopian, technology-obsessed future and a pair of c...

Sci Fi Dystopian Cyberpunk Image Comics

7.4 Good