American Comics for Manga Fans
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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.