This section features comics, graphical novels by American and European authors that I read since high school and that I have completed reading. European and American series that are on-going / I am still reading are listed [this other page]. This list does NOT include Star Wars comics that are listed in [this other page]. They are listed by series in the order I read them. The list is not complete, this page is a work in progress.

Die

DIE is a pitch-black fantasy where a group of forty-something adults have to deal with the returning unearthly horror they barely survived as teenage role-players. If Kieron’s in a rush, he describes it as “Goth Jumanji.” That only captures a sliver of what you’ll find in oversized debut issue—where fantasy gets all too real.

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Split The Party
Kieron Gillen
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The Great game
Kieron Gillen
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Bleed
Kieron Gillen

Y: The Last Man

On July 17, 2002, all living mammals with a Y chromosome—including embryos and sperm—simultaneously die, with the exception of a young amateur escape artist named Yorick Brown and his Capuchin monkey, Ampersand. Many women die from disasters caused by the men's deaths, such as plane crashes. Society is plunged into chaos as infrastructures collapse, and the surviving women everywhere try to cope with the loss of the men, and the belief that, barring a rapid, major scientific breakthrough or other extraordinary happening, humanity is doomed to extinction.

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Unmanned
Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra
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Cycles
Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra
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One Small Step
Brian K. Vaughan
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Safeworld
Brian K. Vaughan
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Ring of Truth
Brian K. Vaughan
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Girl on Girl
Brian K. Vaughan
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Paper Dolls
Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra
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Kimono Dragons
Brian K. Vaughan
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Motherland
Brian K. Vaughan, Massimo Carnavale
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Whys and Wherefores
Brian K. Vaughan

Paper Girls

In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 2-yearold newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this smashhit series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood.

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Volume 1
Brian K. Vaughan
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Volume 2
Brian K. Vaughan
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Volume 3
Brian K. Vaughan
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Volume 4
Brian K. Vaughan
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Volume 5
Brian K. Vaughan
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Volume 6
Brian K. Vaughan

The Wicked + The Divine

The narrative follows a young teenage girl, Laura, as she interacts with the Pantheon, a group of twelve people who discover that they are reincarnated deities. This discovery grants them fame and supernatural powers, with the stipulation that they will die within two years as part of a ninety-year cycle known as the Recurrence.

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The Faust Act
Kieron Gillen
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Fandemonium
Kieron Gillen
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Commercial Suicide
Kieron Gillen
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Rising Action
Kieron Gillen
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Mothering Invention
Kieron Gillen
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Old is the New New
Kieron Gillen
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Okay
Kieron Gillen

Runaways (original run)

All young people believe their parents are evil ... but what if they really are? Meet Alex; Karolina; Gert; Chase; Molly and Nico - whose lives are about to take an unexpected turn. When these six young friends discover their parents are all secretly super-powered villains; the shocked teens find strength in one another. Together; they run away from home and straight into the adventure of their lives - vowing to turn the tables on their evil legacy.

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Pride and Joy
Brian K. Vaughan
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Teenage Wasteland
Brian K. Vaughan
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The Good Die Young
Brian K. Vaughan
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True Believers
Brian K. Vaughan
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Escape to New York
Brian K. Vaughan
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Parental Guidance
Brian K. Vaughan
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Live Fast
Brian K. Vaughan

The Umbrella Academy

In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-three extraordinary children were spontaneously born to women who'd previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why, his only explanation was, "To save the world."

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Dallas
Gerard Way

Love is Love

The comic book industry comes together to honor those killed in Orlando. From IDW Publishing, with assistance from DC Entertainment, this oversize comic contains moving and heartfelt material from some of the greatest talents in comics - - mourning the victims, supporting the survivors, celebrating the LGBTQ community, and examining love in today's world.All material has been kindly donated, from the creative to the production, with ALL PROCEEDS going to the victims, survivors and their families via EQUALITY FLORIDA. Be a part of an historic comics event! It doesn't matter who you love. All that matters is that you love.

Destroyer

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein beseeched his creator for love and companionship, but in 2017, the monster has long discarded any notions of peace or inclusion. He has become the Destroyer, his only goal to eliminate the scourge of humanity from the planet. In this goal, he initially finds a willing partner in Dr. Baker, a descendant of the Frankenstein family who has lost her teenage son after an encounter with the police. While two scientists, Percy and Byron, initially believe they’re brought to protect Dr. Baker from the monster, they soon realize they may have to protect the world from the monster and Dr. Baker’s wrath.

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Victor la Valle

Iceman

Bobby Drake has been in the super-hero game longer than most but what is he known for besides a few good one-liners and a string of failed relationships? The time is now or never for Bobby to build a life and legacy he can be proud of and become the best Iceman he can be! But whether seeking ex-girlfriend Kitty Pryde's advice on meeting guys or delivering his latest news to his parents, it won't be easy and that's before a gang of revenge-seeking Purifiers comes calling! Still learning to be comfortable in his own skin, Bobby will meet someone who's perhaps too comfortable in his: the Son of Wolverine himself, Daken! But when the moment of truth arrives, which is worse for Iceman: facing his parents or the Juggernaut?

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Thawing Out
Sina Grace
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Absolute Zero
Sina Grace

The Sandman

The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman. It tells the story of Dream of the Endless, who rules over the world of dreams.

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Preludes & Nocturnes
Neil Gaiman et al.
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The Doll's House
Neil Gaiman et al.
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Dream Country
Neil Gaiman et al.
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Season of Mists
Neil Gaiman et al.
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A Game of You
Neil Gaiman et al.
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Fables and Reflections
Neil Gaiman et al.
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Brief Lives
Neil Gaiman et al.
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Worlds' End
Neil Gaiman et al.
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The Kindly Ones
Neil Gaiman et al.
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The Wake
Neil Gaiman et al.
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Endless Nights
Neil Gaiman et al.
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The Dream Hunters
Neil Gaiman et al.
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Overture
Neil Gaiman et al.

I Kill Giants

I Kill Giants is an American comic book limited series published by Image Comics beginning in 2008. The comic was created by writer Joe Kelly and artist J. M. Ken Niimura and features Barbara Thorson, a girl struggling with life by escaping into a fantasy life of magic and monsters.

Raina Telgemeier

Raina Telgemeier (born May 26, 1977) is an American cartoonist whose works include the autobiographic webcomic Smile (A Dental Drama), which was published by Scholastic Press's Graphix imprint as a full-color graphic novel in February 2010. Smile, as well as the follow-up Sisters and the fiction graphic novel Drama have all been on The New York Times Best Seller lists. Telgemeier has also created four The Baby-Sitters Club graphic novels

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Ghosts
Raina Telgemeier
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Drama
Raina Telgemeier
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Smile
Raina Telgemeier
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Sisters
Raina Telgemeier

The Oatmeal Comics

The Oatmeal started as a webcomic and humor website created in 2009 by cartoonist Matthew Boyd Inman.

Vision

The Vision wants to be human, and what's more human than family? So he heads back to the beginning, to the laboratory where Ultron created him and molded him into a weapon. The place where he first rebelled against his given destiny and imagined that he could be more -that he could be a man. There, he builds them. A wife, Virginia. Two teenage twins, Viv and Vin. They look like him. They have his powers. They share his grandest ambition -or is that obsession? -the unrelenting need to be ordinary. Behold the Visions!

Marvel (Various)

Various Marvel Series that were either very short (e.g. one volume) or that I dropt.

M.F.K.

A fantastic adventure following the story of Abbie, a deaf girl with a mysterious power, who is traveling across a vast desert to scatter her mother’s ashes. In a world of sleeping gods, a broken government, and a fragile peace held in the hands of the corrupt, one youth must find the strength to stand up against evil and save humanity. This story is not about that youth. It’s about Abbie, who just wants to get to the mountain range called the Potter’s Spine, scatter her mother’s ashes, and then live out her life in sweet, blissful solitude. Unfortunately, everyone she meets wants to whine at her about their woes, tag along on her quest, arrest her for no reason, or blow her to bits.Journeys are hard on the social recluses of the world.

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Volume 1
Nilah Magruder
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Planned
Nilah Magruder
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