American Comics for Manga Fans
Age of Reboots Ermahgerd comics
Adaptations everywhere House of Mouse
Thor 3 will be a musical and mjolnir will sing Avengers
“Ultron Unlimited” Avengers, volume 3 (1998), issues 19-22 Available on Comixology
New Avengers Volume 1: Breakout 9780785114796
House of M 9780785117216 Black Widow
Volume 1: The Finely Woven Thread 9780785188193
Winter Soldier The Complete Collection 9780785190653
Secret Avengers Volume 1: Let’s Have a Problem 9780785190523 Ant-Man
Volume 1: Second-Chance Man 9780785193876
Irredeemable Ant-Man Available on Kindle and Comixology
FF Volume 1: Fantastic Faux 9780785166634 Daredevil
Born Again 9780785134817
Man Without Fear 9780785134794
Volume 1 (2011) 9780785152385
Warner Brothers (and Sister)
The female part’s a little underwritten Batman
Gotham Central 9781401220372
Hush 9781401223175
Court of Owls 9781401235420 Superman
All-Star Superman 9781401232054
Final Night Available on Comixology
Public Enemies 9781401202200 Green Arrow
Quiver 9781401259426
Archer’s Quest 9781401200442 and Comixology
Green Arrow/Black Canary Volume 2: Family Business 9781401220167 The Flash
Rebirth 9781401230012
Move Forward 9781401235543
“Born To Run” (Vol 2, issues 62-65) Available on Comixology Supergirl
“Who is Superwoman?” Supergirl Vol 5, issues 34 & 37-42 9781401225070 or Comixology
The Last Daughter of Krypton 9781401236809 Zombies and Fallen
Angels and uh… Zombies and uh, Fallen Angels… oh my! iZombie
Volume 1: Dead to the World 9781401229658
Volume 2: uVampire 9781401232962
Volume 3: Six Feet Under & Rising 9781401233709 Lucifer
Book One 9781401240264
Book Two 9781401242602
Book Three 9781401246044
The Walking Dead
Compendium One 9781607060765
Compendium Two 9781607065968
Compendium Three 9781632154569 (October) Preacher
Book One 9781401240455
Book Two 9781401242558
Book Three 9781401245016 Kids These Days
Ain’t nothing wrong with ‘em
Young Avengers
Volume 1: Style > Substance 9780785167082
Omnibus 9780785191711 Ms. Marvel
Volume 1: No Normal 9780785190219
Volume 2: Generation Why 9780785190226
Volume 3: Crushed 9780785192275
The Wicked + The Divine
Volume 1: The Faust Act 9781632150196
Volume 2: Fandemonium 9781632153272 Rat Queens
Volume 1: Sass and Sorcery 9781607069454
Volume 2: The Far Reaching Tentacles of N’Rygoth 9781632150400
Alternative Superheroes
Not that kind of alternative… or that one On the Streets
Powers Definitive Hardcover Collection Vol 1 9780785118053
Ex Machina Book One 9781401244989 In the Air
Astro City Life in the Big City 9781401232627
Invincible Ultimate Collection Vol 1 9781582405001 Who to read
Nintendo seal of quality level stuff here Matt Fraction
Genres: Science fiction, weird
● Sex Criminals ● Casanova ● Hawkeye ● Invincible Iron Man
Brian K. Vaughan
Genres: Science fiction, angst
● Saga ● Y: The Last Man ● Ex Machina ● Runaways
G. Willow Wilson
Genres: Fantasy
● A-Force ● Ms. Marvel ● Air ● Cairo Gail Simone
Genres: Wit, female leads
● Red Sonja ● Secret Six ● Batgirl ● Birds of Prey What not to read
Unless you want to hate comics Joss Whedon
Genres: Fantasy, action, snark
Newbies should avoid because: ● Issues with women ● Unsatisfying endings ● Someone always gets “Whedoned” Frank Miller
Genres: Superheroes, noir
Newbies should avoid because: ● racist ● sexist ● crazy (not in the fun way) ● people took the wrong lessons from his work in the ‘80s and ruined comics with a bunch of grimdark sh*t Convergence
Genre: The kind of giant comics event that made you not want to read American comics in the first place
Newbies should avoid because: ● Confusing ● Pandering to old-school fans ● They’ll just do another one in a few years anyway