Superheroes dominated the comic industry for decades, and while DC and Marvel remain the two biggest comic publishers in the world, reader interests have shifted. Creators are branching off to tell their own kinds of stories beyond heroes and villains in capes. Fans need only look past DC and Marvel to comic publishers such as Image and BOOM! Studios.
Fans of the Walking Dead TV series should check out the comic it was based on. DC’s Vertigo imprint may publish Sandman, but it’s closer to mythology than superheroes. Comics like Black Science, Saga and Descender are all sci-fi epics. Comic books are so much more than superheroes and superpowers; these comics prove that good sequential stories exist in any genre.
They are:
- Saga
- Something is Killing the Children
- Descender
- East of West
- The Wicked + The Divine
- Black Science
- Criminal
- Once & Future
- Sandman (vol. 2)
- The Walking Dead
I really enjoyed the story. I checked it out digitally through my library and read it on my iPad.