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Non-superhero comics

arthwollipot said:
I KNOW, I know. I never claimed to be consistent. I usually don't much like the zombie genre - I think it's almost been as overdone as the vampire genre, or Batman. But hey, they said it was good, and if I don't like the five issues I have, I can always not buy any more.
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Okay. Then I recommend Preacher again. :)
 
Brian-M said:
Do you hate any specific version of Batman, or just the entire Batman genre a a whole?
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It's the fact that there have been so many different versions that I hate. The damn franchise just keeps getting rebooted, over and over and over again. Can't they just let him die already?

Morrigan said:
Okay. Then I recommend Preacher again. :)
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Okay, noted.
 
arthwollipot said:
Can't they just let him die already?
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Yes, but he'll just come back to life again. Or be replaced by the next-generation of crime-fighter using the same costume and persona (like The Phantom).

You do have a point, re-using the same character over-and-over again gets absurd after a while. They'd be better off inventing a new crime-fighter every once in a while.

How about a comic where Batman is long since retired, and Gotham City is guarded by a fully-mature Robin and his new sidekick? And then in a decade or two the comic has Robin retire (or die) and Sidekick boy takes over?

They almost started going in that direction at the end of the last movie. Batman/Wayne fakes his death and retires, and a young Police officer named Rob (short for Robin) who has shown vigilante tendencies himself finds the Batcave and all the equipment. (Of course, this goes completely against the whole Robin backstory from every other iteration of the Batman fantasy.)
 
Brian-M said:
How about a comic where Batman is long since retired, and Gotham City is guarded by a fully-mature Robin and his new sidekick? And then in a decade or two the comic has Robin retire (or die) and Sidekick boy takes over?
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They had that briefly in the comics a few years ago, for about a year. Batman dies and whichever version of Robin takes over, and grabs himself a new Robin.

Of course, Bruce wasn't really dead (or something).

I'm paraphrasing based on what I read, not from actually reading the comics.
 
Couple more suggestions:

Hate: Peter Bagge's hilarious story of a 1990s slacker, his dysfunctional family, his loser friends and his insane girlfriends. There were 30 issues of the main title, and Bagge has kept it going with annuals.

Bone: Generally considered a kid's series, but it's a lot of fun.

Boody Rogers Sparky Watts. A wacky 1940s superhero parody. Craig Yoe and Fantagraphics put out a best of book about 5 years ago.
 
Another vote for Girl Genius. I just ponied up $30 for their Kickstarter campaign to bring out Compilation #13. Mad science, on the level of Wile E. Coyote, but with an ongoing plot.

Try Digger, by Ursula Vernon. Digger (short for "Digger-of unnecessarily-convoluted-tunnels") is a very pragmatic wombat engineer (Hi, Tim!) who manages to dig her way into a universe with a ghost-thing, a hyena who has been kicked out of his tribe, and Ganesha, all of whom are sure that her arrival portends that something wicked this way comes.
 
Manhattan Projects. "It is a story about an alternate history of the end of World War II in which the Manhattan Project was a front for other more esoteric science fiction ideas."

All sorts of awesome

Overview of the first story arc from Wikipedia...

Joseph Oppenheimer, a twin brother and killer with multiple-personality disorder, believes that he has "devoured" his twin brother, Robert, and has become an amalgam of the two. He meets Lieutenant General Leslie Groves, who shows him The Manhattan Projects, which includes things like: Mining pan-dimensional space for fringe materials to build impossible machines. 150,000 mainframes joined together in the hopes of mimicking the human mind of a certain Franklin D. Roosevelt. Scientist Harry Daghlian has apparently absorbed so much radiation that he's essentially just a skeleton in a containment suit. Einstein trying to open an inter-dimensional door he created
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I read Girl Genius online for quite a while - I love Foglio's work, way back from the Phil & Dixie days. But I thought it got bogged down when they went to the castle and I lost interest.
 
arthwollipot said:
I read Girl Genius online for quite a while - I love Foglio's work, way back from the Phil & Dixie days. But I thought it got bogged down when they went to the castle and I lost interest.
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They're out of the castle now, and the whole of Mechanicsburg (including the castle) is frozen in time.
 
Regarding Mark Waid's Ruse, which both Brainster and I have recommended:

Morrigan said:
That sounds pretty awesome. Unfortunately I assume it'd be hard to find due to the publisher going bankrupt... :\
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Not necessarily. Sorry I don't have time to look this up at the moment (I'm away from home until Monday) but Marvel bought the rights to publish some of the Cross-Gen series several years ago, and I believe one of the series for which they published some new issues was Ruse. So it's quite possible that the original issues will also appear at some point in the Marvel digital comics inventory. Worth a look, anyway.
 
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