Great comics you may never have heard of

[Kevin Roegele]

This is the place to introduce to others great comics they may never have come across before.

The Maquis by Guy Davis

Fantasticly creepy, weird, action packed story on an 18th century ex-Inquisitor who can see demons and hunts them down. Very atmospheric and unique.

Saint Legend by Andy Seto

Next to Priest, my favourite manga. A band of extremely cool immortals are on a planet-wide quest to destroy demons. One huge epic told across ten volumes. The art is absolutely wonderful.

Nocturnals by Dan Brereton

The X-Men crossed with the Addams Family, film noir style, all painted. Begging to be made into a movie by Gulliermo Del Toro.

Manga Star Wars

The story gets a whole new lease of life (well, all except AotC and RotS which weren't adapted). Much more intense and emotional than the movies, and the lightsaber battles are spectacular.

 

[Mario_Galaxy]

Hmm, that Saint Legend looks cool

 

[IDrawDeadPeople]

Not the biggest promoter of the latest zombie overabundance, but these 2 were old, short lived and quite original in their approaches.

 

[CrimsonMist]

 

[IDrawDeadPeople]

Well, since you went and dropped Mister Monster on us, I'll perpetuate our conversation from the other thread with:

 

[echostation]

Unwritten and Scalped and Chew are all ones that deserve special mention... superb stuff

 

[GL1]

Y'know what indie comic I absolutely loved? Gold Digger

 

[Ultimate_Superman]

Well, since you went and dropped Mister Monster on us, I'll perpetuate our conversation from the other thread with:

That's to great of a comic to go unfinished. I wish I could have seen the whole series finished and see what happens with Cliff and Betty. However I think it works better as a series of miniseries then as an ongoing.

 

[IDrawDeadPeople]

Agreed on all accounts. I'm a nut for short stories anyway, so the minis really did their job as minis.



Oh, and I like your sig, although I am far more of a Mark guy, myself.

 

[Ultimate_Superman]

I really wish they went ahead with that Superman/Rocketeer cross over that would have been cool. I hope one day someone finishes that series. I know the book couldnt work as an ongoing but as I said before it will work as a mini-series.

 

[블라스]

This is the place to introduce to others great comics they may never have come across before.

The Maquis by Guy Davis

Fantasticly creepy, weird, action packed story on an 18th century ex-Inquisitor who can see demons and hunts them down. Very atmospheric and unique.

Thank you.
That looks fantastic, it's the exact kind of thing I love. Very Solomon Kane-esque.
I'll pick up the "Inferno" volume today.

 

[IDrawDeadPeople]

VARIETY! Something for every sensibility:

 

[Silvermoth]

Blacksad

I first saw Blacksad while holidaying in Brussels and I was enamoured with the art particulary the detail of the facial expressions.

 

[IDrawDeadPeople]

^^^ Good stuff. Brilliant storytelling. ^^^

For fairly straightforward heroism:

For stunning art and a sickeningly deep read:

 

[Max J Power]

^^^ Good stuff. Brilliant storytelling. ^^^

For fairly straightforward heroism:

Agreed. It's a really good supplement to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

 

[Rez]

Xenozoic Tales

also known as
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs
By Mark Schultz

A masterclass in both artwork and storytelling. A recently released and easy to find volume contains most of the key work of the series. Dinosaurs, cars, adventure, babes, romance, pirates, poachers, monsters, apocalypse, and more come together in one of the greatest stories never finished (yet). Anyone with even a vague interest in comics should seek this stuff out.

Seriously this stuff is AWESOME. Bar none my favorite comic stuff ever.

Also..

SCUD! The Disposable Assassin

 

[IDrawDeadPeople]

I love CADILLACS & DINOSAURS.

Since I think people should read THE SPIRIT and CEREBUS, I figured I'd just show examples of both pummeling each other. Honestly, two of my favorite lines of dialogue ever printed in a comic are in this story.

"Cerebus told him, in no uncertain terms, that he wasn't going to jail just because some farmer had got his nose broke by slamming it repeatedly into Cerebus' foot".

I also like the description of "The sound of Cerebus' foot making contact with The Spirit's knee was like dry kindling hitting a bonfire".

 

[Ash J. Williams]

Love Cerebus and will definitely have to check out the one above.

 

[Comics N' Toons]

 

[Tron Bonne]

Maybe not quite as under the radar as some of the other titles posted in here, but I thought I'd give a good shout-out to Scott McCloud's Zot! A comic that was a bit of throwback to more fun Golden Age superhero storytelling, it really was a breath of fresh air, I'm sure, to people in the midst of the mainstream superhero comics of the '90s. Pretty interesting to see the first major work by the guru of comics (and he was right in the foreword of the Complete Black and White Collection; I was kind of curious what that lightening bolt was all about). The end of the series takes an interesting turn with the 'Earth stories', and keeps the whole thing very fresh. Probably one of it's most noted features is it's artstyle inspired heavily from Japanese manga which, at the time, was uncommon.

Right now you can get The Complete Black and White Collection, which collects issues 11-36. Issue 1-10 is out of print, but issue 11 was kind of a quasi-reboot.

 

[Watchman]

Also..

SCUD! The Disposable Assassin

I you. I was just coming here to recommend this. ****ing one of my favorite comics of all time.

Most people get into comics mainly through Spider-Man, Batman, whatever but Scud was the first comic I got my hands on as a kid...which probably explains a lot not but I digress. Scud is a wonderful, hilarious off-the-wall comic about a disposable, robotic assassin from a vending machine. Rob Schrab's artwork and imagination is highly kinetic and imaginative so much fantastic little details. No summary will do this book justice. Scud goes from small southern town, big city, space fighting were-black holes, heaven, through time, Voodoo Ben Franklin so much great things about this book. Image released the entire collection for 30 bucks so get it or I'll hire a robot to punt your first born. So, here another book about a robot,

Automatic Kafka is written by Joe Casey and art by Ashley Wood. Kafka covers the life of former superhero, Automatic Kafka, and the rest of his team as they try to stay relvent in a world that seems to have move on. Casey does what he does best, a fairly trippy story with very interesting ideas and heroes dealing with their fame. It's a fairly caustic yet humorous also at times touching look at comics. It only lasted for a handful of issues and one of them covers the Peanuts gang all grown up.

 

[Watchman]

More or less a book to showcase Bill Sienkiewicz artwork Stray Toasters does have a pretty crazy story about a criminal psychologist investigating a serial killers that involves demons. This book is Sienkiewicz unbound. His art ranges from scratchy sketches, hyper realism, cartoon like caricatures and many times a mixture of all different sorts of style. It is a beautiful artistic playground.

 

[Dark Victory]

I'm not exactly the comic connoisseur, but here are a few books that I've always enjoyed which don't seem to have that big a fanbase.

Can't Get No
Young Liars
Daytripper
Madman

That's all I got. Again, no expert so I'm not too sure how popular these are.

Still, wonderful books that I unconditionally love and have shown me what the medium is truly capable of.

 

[Lord Valumart]

SCUD! The Disposable Assassin

Just bought these on eBay. I hope to god they're worth it...

 

[Watchman]

A miniseries from Image that was just release and didn't get much attention but definitely a wonderfully strange comic. Written by David Hine and art by Shaky Kane Bulletproof Coffin tells the story of Steve Newman escape from his mundane world into a strange world populate with old comic book characters. Coffin is a great psychedelic noir, Kane's artwork is great here, where the lines of fact and fiction are blurred into alternate dimension. Newman's world of real and fake are broken and he must find out if this is just some sort of crazed hallucination or is it really a conspiracy involving men in black, golden age heroes, and some cranky comic creators. Very bizarre and at times creepy. Also, filled with riffs on real life comic book writers and artist acting as both a tribute and satire.

Definitely top five comics of all time. Eddie Campbell's, who is most famous for his work in Moore's From Hell, Alec stories center around his alter ego and stand-in Alec. Fantastic stories about life, wine, art, getting old, kids, growing up, pretty much everything. I would also recommend The Fate of the Artist which is not included in the omnibus but definitely in the same vein as the Alec stories.