Hello! I was just wondering if you could rec me some comics as well as some comic au's? I am very new to comics, the only I've ever read being The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way. If you know of anything like/similar to that that would be great. Thank you!
um, sure! the umbrella academy is close to a spoof on the superhero genre, so if you want to read more mainstream superhero comics in order to, like, see the material it’s a take on, then I have a beginning rec list for marvel here. I’m not really familiar enough with DC to really rec books yet but I’ll try?
also, well first, if you want to read another series by gerard way, check out the true lives of the fabulous killjoys. written with shaun simon and with becky cloonan on the art.
nextwave, warren ellis and stuart immonen (like, the closest marvel has ever come to satirizing itself within its own universe)
buzzkill, donny cates, mark reznicek and geoff shaw
grant morrison’s doom patrol (issues 19-63), which I think I remember as being an influence for way’s writing? yeah wiki’s confirming that vague memory so!! check that out
chew, john layman and rob guillory
phonogram, kieron gillen and jamie mckelvie
mara, brian wood and ming doyle
secret six vol 1, vol 2, gail simone (the only DC title I’ve read that has similar humor?? I haven’t read much DC, but this series stands on its own, you don’t have to know much about the greater universe to read it)
hellblazer, various (not….really all that similar I’ve just been reading a lot of hellblazer and feel like it belongs on this list for some reason)
phonogram vol 1 and vol 2, kieron gillen and jamie mckelvie
the authority, warren ellis and bryan hitch
ongoings:
moon knight, warren ellis and declan shalvey
suicide risk, mike carey and elena casagrande
rocket girl, brandon montclare and amy reeder
saga, brian k. vaughn and fiona staples
morning glories, nick spencer and joe eisma
shutter, joe keatinge and leila del duca
bedlam, nick spencer and riley rossmo
sex criminals, matt fraction and chip zdarsky
