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I saw this mentioned in yesterday's comic book discussion, but it was too late to ask there.

I kind of always thought that comic book = superhero, and that never interested me, so I'm intrigued by this concept.

Anyone have any recs?

I'm sure that there's better than me around to give advice. And it's also problematic because there's difficulty with delineating what is and is not a superhero comic book (for instance, is Sandman a superhero book? Also, read Sandman, it's legitimately great).

But you could check out Bone and Tintin (which are both very classic, family-friendly, adventure but also really good - Tintin is legitimately a hallmark of the genre, Bone is funny and fun). You could check out Transmetropolitan, which is about Hunter S Thompson in a cyberpunk future. You could read 100 Bullets, which is a gritty crime noir. You could read Daniel Clowes or Chris Ware, who are making serious work. Or you could read Barry Ween Boy Genius, which is about 13 year olds making poop jokes (and is legitimately good).

The thing about non-superhero comics is that it depends on what you're interested in, because it pretty much includes everything.

(Also you should read Naoki Urasawa, which is manga, but I don't care, because it's still funnybooks, and it's not superheroes, and he's amazing)

Hmm, well, here's some online (free) comics that I read:

http://www.straysonline.com/
This one is about a wolf-girl who is living alone. She's found by a bounty hunter who is also a wolf-person, and she follows him around.

http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1
This is about a girl who ends up at a private school after her mother dies. The school is next to a forest that holds all sorts of magical creatures. The two places are at constant war with each other.

http://paranatural.net/chapter-1-page-1/
This is about a boy who moves to a town with his father and younger sister. He starts seeing ghosts, and his life changes.

http://www.zoophobiacomic.com/Zoophobia/?p=170
This one...is hard to explain, sort of. It's about a woman who is tricked into taking a councilor job, and ends up in a supernatural place where she can never leave. The problem is that she's deathly afraid of animals, and most of the people at the school are animals/animal people.

http://mokepon.smackjeeves.com/comics/458480/prologue/
A parody of Pokémon, with a dick trainer kid who hates Pokémon and doesn't want to do it, but is forced to by his mother.

http://www.earthsongsaga.com/vol1/vol1cover.html
A woman wakes up on a strange planet with no memories. It turns out this planet is called Earthsong, and Earthsong is at war with one of her brother planets, who wants to take away her star-given powers. No one knows which planet the woman is from.

http://off-white.eu/comic/volume-i/
A story about a wolf pack that is on a journey to bring the blue spirit to a place, so he can raise the sun. (there is a blue and red spirit for every species, even humans)

http://tryinghuman.com/?id=1
Aliens! Men in black! A gray falls in love with a human one of the other grays are abducting. There's also a side plot about something that happened in Roswell, and there's a gay alien who falls in love with a human guy, so there's that. It's hard to explain, but it's interesting.

If giant transforming alien robots are your thing, IDW currently has the Transformers license and has had an ongoing continuity since 2005. Quality since then and now has been highly variable, but one of the current books, More Than Meets the Eye is pretty much if you had Star Trek with transforming robots and goes between space adventures, horror, and intrigue. It does call back to previous things a fair bit, though. this wiki article breaks down the big mess into smaller chunks.

IDW also has the Dungeons and Dragons comic license, and I haven't poked it in a long while, but their regular comic for it just titled "Dungeons and Dragons" that focuses on the Fell's Five party was some damn good stuff when I was reading it.

And while I don't follow the other stuff, IDW does have a pretty big host of non-superhero comics - TMNT, Doctor Who, Star Trek, My Little Pony, and GI Joe.

Archie Comics has their namesake titles about Archie Andrews and his gang of friends' various slice of life stuff if that suits you, as well as their excellent Sonic the Hedgehog and Mega Man comics. (Especially the Mega Man one, though my bias for that is heavy.)

That's just things I go for, though, there's boatloads of stuff out there. Not just monthly stuff, either, lots of graphic novels. And webcomics, oh man. The medium is absolutely enormous and there's so much more out there than superheroes. If you've got a genre bias, you're likely to find more than a few things that get your interest.

The Brothers Hernandez: Love and Rockets. The Palomar series alone is one of the great works of sequential storytelling.

Allison Bechdel: Dykes to Watch Out For and Fun Home.

Osamu Tezuka: Buddha. Fictionalized life and times of Siddhartha Gautama by the father of both anime and manga.

Bill Watterson: Calvin and Hobbes.

Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis.

Jean "Moebius" Giraud: A lot of weird science fiction and cowboy stuff.

Art Spiegelman: Maus. Pretty much the first graphic novel to get serious literary attention.

Lynda Barry: Ernie Pook's Comeek and autobiographical work. Some heavy stuff about abuse and poverty.

Peter Kuiper: Metamorphosis, and he's been in charge of Spy vs. Spy since '97. Nice work, unique style.

Need to get off my ass to read:

Will Eisner's long work, since he's credited with creating the English-language graphic novel. (Tezuka arguably was parallel in Japan. There probably were similar works happening in other languages.)

More European work including Tintin and Astrix.

Saga.

Y The Last Man

Saga

Atomic Robo (okay, that has one issue with superheroes, but it's mostly a spoof)

And I'm not sure if Megaman counts as a superhero or not, but his comics are fantastic.

Someone already mentioned Transmetropolitan, but here's a second rec for it. As for free online stuff, diggercomic.com is great. Digger is by Ursula Vernon, who writes the Dragonbreath middle grade book series and had one of her creations achieve meme status as the LOLWUT pear, formally known as the Biting Pear of Salamanca. Digger is complete, and it was nominated for an Eisner (big comic book industry award) and won a Hugo (big fantasy literature award). There's individual print volumes out and an omnibus edition's being done, but free is always good. It's about a wombat miner lost a long way from home and her adventures as she tries to find someone to serve as a guide for the trip back. There are also vampire squash, an outcast hyena artist, drunk slugs that tell the future, and metaphorical pigeons that work in a monastic library. (There are also humans, in case you feared furry indoctrination.) It's awesome.

A lot of my recs have already been made.

So, I'll mention a couple newish science fiction series that I'm enjoying...

Scott Snyder and Scott Murphy's The Wake is pretty good - a sapient (and hostile) mermaid like deep-sea creature is discovered, and a number of characters are recruited to figure out what it is. There's also a bunch of plots involving the characters' histories and how they intersect.

Simon Oliver and Robbi Rodriguez's Collider only just started last week, but looks quite interesting - turns out the laws of physics aren't as inviolable as we thought, and the book follows the Federal Bureau of Physics - the people you call when your gravity goes out, or when the light in your house starts moving slower than sound.

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