So yeah, i found that after reading too many novels one gets a little sick of it and people tend to look for more original novels but i feel that it doesn't end the endogamy that breeds this tiredness, so i'm recommending some comics if you are interested on something really different because manga is like the brother of light novels so is not that refreshing It may not belong on this subforum so just move it to wherever it fits Superior Spiderman: Doctor Octopus is dying of cancer and swaps bodies with spiderman and then kills him, he investigates his memories and realizes both were very similar and regrets killing him so decides to make up for it by becoming a superior spiderman and a better peter parker, watch spiderman giving the middle finger to the avengers, making Jameson his bitch, getting his doctorate, beggoning THOTS and kicking ass in escalating numbers, if you read superhero comics you know how this ends but the ride is VERY fun Spoiler: Comic Cover The Superior Foes Of Spiderman: from the same storyline as Superior Spiderman we have the new Sinister Six... they are actually five but it always helps when people wonder who may be the sixth member, he could be anyone! even Dormamu...! or so they say Is a story about a bunch of lowlifes trying to make it big but big rewards can only be obtained with bigger risks and they would rather keet their skin, thank you very much Spoiler: Comic Cover MODOK's 11: is like Ocean's 11 but with supervillains, the brain hires a bunch of specialists to steal a very valuable mcguffin but as they are a team of supervillains is obvious that someone is going to betray the team... someone or maybe everyone Aliens, time travelers, magicians, evil ex girlfriends in charge of large organizations, plans that go wrong and plans that go really well Spoiler: Comic Cover Superman - American Alien: tired of the broody and whinny superman from the movies? "oh my gosh, being a demigod is so haaaaaard!" American Alien is the story of the human superman, a guy who grew up in a farm with his doting parents, his cute redhead neighbor, a couple of friends and who also happens to be a solar powered alien, this is a story of family, friendship, life goals and kicking ass with superpowers, this would make a great movie if he studios were not blinded by disaster movies with superheroes Spoiler: Comic Cover Transmetropolitan: a reporter in the future writes articles about society, they are pretty much excuses to show human problems magnified by technology to make them easier to spot and cooler to watch, the MC goes around getting the story by good or bad means according to his mood and the available weapons, his articles are actually well written and the adventure in the futuristic city feels mundane enough that it doesnt require introduction Spoiler: Comic Cover Spoiler: Comic Cover Spoiler: Comic Cover Black Science: a scientist creates a machine to travel to parallel universes and of course things go wrong after he and his team find some parallel monsters, things get ever weirder when is shown that there are parallel versions of himself who made similar machines and now they are scattered across the multiverse jumping from world to world and making things worse as they jump and jump And the art is stunningly beautiful Spoiler: Comic Cover Spoiler: Comic Spoiler: Comic Invisible Republic: after a dictatorship is defeated in another solar system a reporter finds a diary of a woman who claims to be the dictator's cousin that was left out the official records and shows another face of the rise of the dictatorship Spoiler: Comic Cover Mice Templar: a forest was protected by mice knights until they killed each other over ideological differences, now the remnants of the order are scattered and hiding while a tyrant rose and took over the place and is hunting them down, at the beginning it looks like a chosen one must rise up but the prophecy is just an invention to lure people out and kill them, but now the mice in exile are almost ready to fight back... if they can stop blaming each other for the demise of the order Spoiler: Comic Cover Atomic Robo: Tesla made an intelligent robot who later on assembled his own team of action scientists who roam the world looking for mysteries, they fight zombies, aliens, ancient creatures, evil scientists, nazis, evil nazi scientists, monsters from parallel universes, evil A.I. etc,etc,etc, is like a festival of a robot fighting cool stuff Spoiler: Comic Cover Uber: at the end of WWII the nazis revealed their secret weapon, an army of ubermensch! with super strength, super resistance and eye beams that can destroy or reshape matter they quickly turn the tides of war but the allies have an spy who stole the secrets behind the super soldiers and now everyone and their mothers are in a race against time to develop their own super soldiers, tank-men, cruiser-men destroyer-men and regular armies in an extended WWII Spoiler: Comic Cover The Autumnlands: everyone in this story are animal people, the world has magic but it decreases every year so they try to summon the ancient hero who was said to have opened the gates of magic which caused magic to exist in that world to begin with, they do it but the hero turns out to be a human, a species which they have no records off, it gets weirder when this human is not affected by magic and can see technology that the animal people cannot perceive and now the human is looking for answers which stirs the powers that rule the world from the shadows Spoiler: Comic Cover Saga: a planet filled with winged people has been at war with the moon filled with horned people and they hate each other to death, they have magic and technology so powerful they could destroy the moon and planet with ease but doing so would make them go out of orbit and turn the planet or moon into a dead and cold rock so they have imported their war across the whole galaxy and fight in other planets, the story revolves about a horned man and a winged woman who fall in love and have a daughter, now both sides want them death so they can go back to hating each others, space dragons, space wars, space planets, space ships, space trees, space tree ships, space soup operas, space terrorists, space armies, space robots in 480p 1080p or 4k according to their ranks Spoiler: Comic Cover More comics When fierce bears suddenly attack the cities only a man can stop them A man with no fear! A man with no mercy! A man with no shirt! Shirtless Bear Fighter is here to save the day! "All men are created equal, but sometimes God makes a mistake and makes a man too much of a man" Well, yeah, is about a shirtless man beating bears with his bare fists Spoiler The New Adventures Of Hitler - the story of a young man called Adolf who is living with his brother after failing to enter the art school, now he is looking for a purpose in life... Spoiler Stardust - Maybe you saw the movie and it was based on a comic, which was actually made like one of those old style fairy tales book with one page illustrations for every page of text, the story is less hollywood and more old fairy tales with crude villains and mysterious magic and a young man trying the impossible for a youthful love, the art is also very old school and classic, it feels like an old classic tale remade for modern audiences without going for a fad like modern adaptations tend to do The story is about a young man who is in love with a girl, one night he proposes to her claiming he would do anything for her hand in marriage, they see a star falling and she asks him to go and bring it back to her, but the star fell in the other side of an ancient wall that separates the mortal world from the magic realms Spoiler you can find them online or download them with a little google magic, am i allowed to post links?
One of his recommendations (Uber) is neither marvel nor a space thingy. Its basically what would happen if there were superhumans in world war 2. I like this Comic because the heroes are manufactured and rather than giving the heroes unique abilities , their abilities are the same with varying degrees of power strength
More comic recommendations, i will also add them to the initial post When fierce bears suddenly attack the cities only a man can stop them A man with no fear! A man with no mercy! A man with no shirt! Shirtless Bear Fighter is here to save the day! "All men are created equal, but sometimes God makes a mistake and makes a man too much of a man" Well, yeah, is about a shirtless man beating bears with his bare fists Spoiler The New Adventures Of Hitler - the story of a young man called Adolf who is living with his brother after failing to enter the art school, now he is looking for a purpose in life... Spoiler Stardust - Maybe you saw the movie and it was based on a comic, which was actually made like one of those old style fairy tales book with one page illustrations for every page of text, the story is less hollywood and more old fairy tales with crude villains and mysterious magic and a young man trying the impossible for a youthful love, the art is also very old school and classic, it feels like an old classic tale remade for modern audiences without going for a fad like modern adaptations tend to do The story is about a young man who is in love with a girl, one night he proposes to her claiming he would do anything for her hand in marriage, they see a star falling and she asks him to go and bring it back to her, but the star fell in the other side of an ancient wall that separates the mortal world from the magic realms Spoiler
I'm rather surprised anybody let this be published Anyway, I recommend three of Delcourt Comics' series that all look to share the same universe/setting Spoiler: Elves Spoiler: Dwarves Spoiler: Orcs & Goblins There's no need to read two of the other series to know what's going on, most of the stories are rather self contained and far away from one another. A number even take place across multiple generations or centuries. Art is really detailed and lots of fanservicey scantily clad women and surprisingly enough also men, so fanservice for both genders. Pretty awesome and well-written in my opinion.
I remember seeing the one about dwarves and made a mental note to read it later because the comments all agreed on its quality but forgot about it, i had no idea there were more, i will check them later And the one about Hitler has a couple decades of age so it was before the PC culture craze
Word of advice, each “volume” is on average 50-60 pages and sometimes it feels longer, you can drink in whats going on somehow Yeah, doubt it’d be so accepted today That reminds me, got another rec, and its actually almost a decade old and part of why I hate the change Ms Marvel (2006-2010) Fanservicey covers and art aside, I found it pretty easy to get into Maybe also recommend the 1970s run, kinda cringey in the first few issues though
Can't link those sites here, which is kinda ironic given we're in a forum connected to one that links to multiple translated chapters that are copyrighted, I think Anyway, here's another rec Zenescope Comics' Grimm Fairy Tales(Universe) It's a pseudo-superhero setting full of Fairy Tale-Themed Characters/Worlds that expand later on to include things like Lovecraft, Frankenstein, Greek Mythology, Aztec Mythology and much more It's got more than one series, that's kind of a problem like Marvel/DC when it comes to "catching up" completely Also, if you notice a pattern with this and the previous pic/series(plus the three or mainly Elves), lets just say I like Female Characters who are Badass but also wear very fanservicey outfits as the Main Characters Impractical, immodest, not 100% in-character and in some people's eyes like the author of Gynostar's POV even sexist. But let's just say when most female protagonists I know are somewhere between plain to only pretty in the face like in Shoujo Manga and other western animated and TV shows, I kinda latch onto this kind of stuff for its near-contradictoriness.
There is a joke among spanish speaking comic readers, because Grimm Fairy Tales are from editorial Zenescope, which can be modified to Zen-escote, which in spanish means Zen-cleavage
Never knew that, got another rec that fits my tastes in what I like seeing in a Female Main Protagonist Hack Slash, a series about a Hot Goth Girl and her Giant Green Partner taking out Horror Movie Slashers across the USA Though gotta say for whatever the reason Post-Son of Samhain(which never got a Volume 2) and starting in 2018’s Resurrection, as paranoid it is to say it, I think SJW’s are taking over, which explains the cargo pants and moving on from her usual outfits.....guess I’m being too paranoid since I think at the end of Resurrection V1 she’s really back to the usual look, or not Word of advice, it comes collected on Omnibuses and YMMV but Resurrection cheapens some stuff or you can say that Hack Slash ends there and not bother reading Son of Samhain and Resurrection(2018+)
Let's add a classic superhero story that has actually ended Spoiler: cover invincible Invincible is a very acclaimed comic by Robert Kirkman, creator of The Walking Dead and some other cool stories, its about a young man called Mark who is the son of the most powerful hero on the planet and his powers finally awaken, now he tries to make a name for himself in the superhero world, but his dad is closer to Goku than Superman... and he is hiding huge secrets The comic has a god amount of personal development, decent romance, good supporting cast whose powers advance at a reasonable rate to prevent them fading into obscurity, the author is also very aware of the problems of the genre and moves or ends things before they become too stale The art is clean and very good for superhero stuff, it can go from panoramic nature shots to sci-fi machinery to gore, a very varied and fitting style Spoiler Following up with the superhero stuff lets talk about Astro City This series has been called "A love letter to the superhero genre" and it shows, its comprised of several short stories, most of them one-shots or up to five numbers in average and they explore the personal weight of some of the common tropes of superhero fiction: -Superman and Magical Lex Luthor cannot defeat each other, so they engage in a long game to grind down the other into seeing things from their point of view... by having lunch -A supervillain is tired of winning so flawlessly that nobody ever notices he did, so he engineers a defeat for everyone to see how he gets away with it -A man loses faith in people after his failed marriage, but when he moves into a city filled with superheroes he finds that people takes stuff like loyalty and duty more seriously, and maybe life its not so bad when you are willing to make it work -A reporter stumbles across a gigantic super fight but he has to decide what can be published while sticking to his journalist's integrity -A superhero is visited by three versions of his future son, each one warped by his death and duty -Whats that? the local superhero changing clothes? nah, surely Its a bird or a plane, no, im totally not protecting his secret identity, what reason do i have to cover for some random nice neighbor with superpowers? silly city people and their weird questions -A company produces superhero comics... based on he actual super people of his world, and some of them are not pleased by their portrayal -An actor for a superhero soap opera stops a robbery by accident and obtains celebrity status, but being a wannabe superhero is more dangerous than expected and he has to decide what he wants from life before he loses it -A girl has grown up surrounded by super beings and now she goes on her own on an adventure as the family tradition, but when super stuff is all you know the regular world sounds fantastic enough -A teenager becomes the sidekick of a dark an brooding vigilante and is very willing to learn the tricks of the trade, but before techniques and methods the mentor is more interested on passing down his code of morals to the young man The only thing i dont like about this comics are the covers because they look too realistic, some people love Alex Ross but i find his style too incompatible with comic's cartoonish nature and i think it looks dry compared to the colorfulness of the genre The covers DO look cool, just not very comic-ish, just imagine the same as manga covers and you will get the idea, but on the inside the art is pretty good Being a superhero work there are plenty of world ending battles but the stories that stuck the most with me are the ones based on personal developments Spoiler: astro city covers