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Chip Zdarsky's avatar

Daredevil's pretty cool

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6th Face's avatar

Your Howard the Duck is my favorite. Too old for the time frame requested though. Keep up the great work.

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Adam Bass's avatar

Wholly Holy!!! What a great ending to a great run!! I'm 42 but only just picked up Comics since my teens and 20+ years immersed in the Seattle Music Scene as a fan & promoter/producer - quarantine really slowed my roll and Wednesdays at Phoenix Comics & Games got me off my azz and I've collected over 10K mostly-new books since I started, along with MARVEL UNLIMITED - my townhouse is running outta space and I'm very behind in my reading - too much good stuff!

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6th Face's avatar

Self promotion is the only promotion!

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Pato's avatar

THAT'S WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY!

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Jordan Cardonick's avatar

Something is killing the children and the entire Slaughterverse needs to be read

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Jordan Cardonick's avatar

Also Eight Billion Genies

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Skottie Young's avatar

already on that and loving it.

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6th Face's avatar

Tynion has been puuting out the bangers.

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6th Face's avatar

You must read the Department of Truth. Nothing like the conspiracy rabbit hole for great content.

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Kelly Thompson's avatar

Okay. Here's a bunch I've loved over the last few years:

KROMA (Lorenzo De Felici) -- Perfect.

HUMAN TARGET (King/Smallwood) - Gorgeous mid-centry art & a grown up superhero story.

KEEPING TWO (Crane) - Brilliant

THIS ONE SUMMER (Mariko Tamaki/Jillian Tamaki) - fantastic coming of age stuff

WHAT'S THE FURTHEST PLACE FROM HERE (Rosenberg/Boss) - so good, going strong

NICE HOUSE ON THE LAKE (Tynion/Martinez/Bellaire) - dark and interesting, great hook

SIKTC (Tynion/Dell'Edera/Muerto) - everyone will recommend this...they're right!

CATCH & RELEASE (Brisson/Estherren) - great crime stuff, gorgeous low key B&W art

LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE CARTOONIST (Tomine) - beautiful/hilarious autobio

MAGGY GARRISON (Trondheim) -- fans of slice of life + PI stuff will be thrilled. I truly loved this.

SINS OF THE SALTON SEA (Brisson/Smith) - Cool crime stuff with creepy cult stuff

DARK KNIGHTS OF STEEL (Taylor/Putri) - super fun alt reality superhero stuff

SPIRIT WORLD (Wong/Haining) - really exciting new character/title from DC

VOID RIVALS (Kirkman/De Felici) - an excellent start to a new world

THE FORGED (Rucka/Trautmann/Henderson) -- terrific new space-focused military story.

BRIAR (Cantwell/Garcia) - stunning visuals, cool subversive fairy tale stuff

THE NIGHT EATERS (Liu/Takeda) - interesting/cool/visually exciting. I rec Monstress over this if you have to choose, but this is worthy too.

SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW (King/Evely) - excellent cosmic superhero stuffI

IT'S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH (Thorogood) -- yup. it's very good.

DUCKS (Beaton) - yup.

All KSD's cool WONDER WOMAN stuff (& OF COURSE her BITCH PLANET if you're behind there)

Zdarsky's PUBLIC DOMAIN, NEWBURN, and of course those little known BATMAN and DAREDEVIL books. ;D

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Skottie Young's avatar

Kelly, you're fucking awesome. Thank you for this huge list. Truly!!!

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Jace Milam's avatar

Kelly's list is pretty damn good. I am going to add some of her titles and a couple of fantastic creator-owned and one DC book

CAPTAIN MARVEL (Thompson/Carnero/Garbett/Davila) - Kelly's entire Cap run is amazing, the definite run on the character for me.

BLACK WIDOW (Thompson/Casagrande) - This won an Eisner for a very good reason. Another series that epitomizes the character perfectly. Gorgeous Adam Hughes covers also.

The Cull (Thompson/De Iulis) - Incredible detail visually in storytelling & subtle narrative characterization make this a MUST-READ. Only one issue out so far, but 10/10 for how to hook readers in a first issue.

Spider Woman (Pacheco/Perez) - Great balance of action & humor. Definitive run for Jess (The Mess) Drew

No/One (Higgins/Buccellato/Borges) - Topical, nuance crime noir that is super immersive and has an in-continuity accompanying podcast that adds tremendously to the experience. Rachel Leigh-Cook and Patton Oswalt are the podcast hosts as characters from the book.

W0rldTr33 (Tynion/Blacno) - Tynion at the height of his powers mixing enigmatic characters with horror & topical technology. Blaco's art is both terrifying & sublime in its emotionality

The Vigil - (Ram V/Sharma) - The best title DC is putting out. Based in India with it's inherent dram and dichotomous nature of being a technological leader while still having widespread poverty. Mysterious characters, great art and tightly paced.

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Skottie Young's avatar

I also love that you know my tastes! You know how much I love your work!

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Kelly Thompson's avatar

Haha. I started writing it out (I track a lot of this stuff for my own nonsense purposes) and midway through I was like "is this too much?" and then I was like "NO! Skottie is one of the only people to read and love Heart In A Box...I know what he wants!" lol

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Skottie Young's avatar

Haha. Yup. You know me well and you nailed it! I ordered several of your recco’s!!!

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Kelly Thompson's avatar

Oh good! Let me know if you find something you love!

(and I hope it's Kroma. I put it at the top for a reason ;D)

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Ethan's avatar

Seconding all of this. Kelly hit everything I’ve loved this year. My two add-ons though would be Do a Powerbomb by DWJ and Above Snakes

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Jason Herschkowitz's avatar

Highly recommend Eight Billion Genies

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Paul's avatar

Check out "Dark Ride."

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Josiah's avatar

Dark Ride is one of the few current pulls I have that makes me go “ooooo” every time it shows up in my box

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Joao Antunes's avatar

The books I loved the most to read in recent times were: Ballad for Sophie by Filipe Melo and Juan Cavia; It's lonely at the center of the earth by Zoe Thorogood; Dynamite Diva by Jasper Jubenvill; Glorious Summers by Jordi Lafebre

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Liz Huff's avatar

These aren't listed in a rated order, just random.

1. Sacrificers is VERY GOOD (only one issue has been released & it made me tear up, never had that happen before when reading a comic)

2. Animal Castle (volume 1 & the current vol.2) is FANTASTIC! (your kids would love it)

3. The Nice House On The Lake (vol.1)

4. S.I.K.T.C (lot's to read) but it's FANTASTIC!! Another top favorite of mine. Anything by Tynion for indie comics!

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Tyler Lariscy's avatar

Had Sacrificers put in my pull box at my LCS as a suggestion and it looked interesting so I picked it up today! Haven't read it yet!

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Rocky Parsons's avatar

I need to try Animal Castle.

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Branden Varela's avatar

Headlopper

Nottingham

White Ash

Something is Killing the Children

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Jason Smith's avatar

I highly recommend Si Spurrier and Matias Bergara's Coda. It's a fantastic read.

Gene Luen Yang's Monkey Prince over at DC was a fun fun read.

Home Sick Pilots by Dan Watters and Casper Wijngaard was a brilliant read. And it's visually stunning,

Dan Watter's also did Arkham City Order of the World and the Sword of Azrael book which are fantastic reads.

Kurt Buseik and Carlos Pacheco brought back their Arrowsmith in Behind Enemy Lines. The original run is reprinted as So Smart in their Fine Uniforms. This is sadly one of Carlos Pacheco's final works before he passed. But it is so beautiful.

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Chris Ferguson's avatar

Human Target by Tom King and Greg Smallwood (DC Comics): For the lover of 50s/60s illustration/design

Grendel, Kentucky by Jeff McComsey and Tommy Lee Edwards (AWA Studios): A retelling of Beowulf set in 1971 Kentucky, where tributes to a monster help keep the local weed crops prosperous

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Josiah's avatar

Si Spurrier and Aaron Campbell’s Hellblazer was great

Step By Bloody Step

Firepower

Jonna

Frontiersman

Reckless

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Nurse Dan's avatar

Shit yeah man. My absolute fave is Saga Brian K Vaughn and art by Fiona Staples. It is 100% not kid appropriate. Recent reads that I have loved are Do a Power Bomb and Murder Falcon by Daniel Warren Johnson. Good art, great story, and way more out of the story than you'd expect from titles about wrestling and a rock band.

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Phil's avatar

Beta Ray Bill by Daniel Warren Johnson is all the right kind of insane fun.

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Mike Caldwell's avatar

Do a Powerbomb! by DWJ is also great!

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Martyn Booth's avatar

Time before time, little monsters!

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Adam Bass's avatar

Love Everlasting, Traveling to Mars, Public Domain, Damn Them All, Con & On, and all the X-books are some of my favorite current runs - also check out Bad Idea Comics, especially Orc Island, Burning Man & They're All Terrible! Top notch!!

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