Need A Comic Super Nerd

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I need some recommendations from someone who's very well rounded. I'd like to find some good comics that were more story driven vs "issue to issue new bad guy, good guys wins, next" type. I'm also a fan of them being grounded somewhat in reality. Yes supernatural or superhero stuff is cool, but for instance in a few of the spiderman ones I read when a car exploded behind him it blew him to shit. He lived, cause he's a superhero, but his clothes were all kinds of burnt & fucked up. Know what I mean?

The Walking Dead has been my favorite. Y: The Last Man was great too. Also loved Invincible. I'm trying to read The Boys now, we'll see. Also always liked the old hardcore Punisher. The ones where he didn't give a fuck about who got killed as long as in the process the bad guy died too. Anti-Hero types.

Anywho, I know dick about comics, their authors, or anything so it's hard for me to narrow it down. I'd like some suggestions thanks!

[Kulaf]

Spawn

Deadpool

The Walt Simonson Thor comics are very good

[Kulaf]

I'll keep adding more as they hit me:

The Jim Starlin Captain Marvel comics are great. Awesome art and good stories.

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Deadpool yes, but Spawn? I haven't read much but is that really a good story arch?

I guess I should have mentioned that I'm not a big fan of the magic/alternate universe/dimension thing. And yes, I know it's a little hypocritical to say I want to read a comic book about superheros or mutants but it to be realistic, but in my mind it works. I don't even mind the extra ordinary stuff as long as they can explain it & stay consistent with that & the physics around it. For example one time I saw a comic book where Wolverine was digging bullets out of his face. Yes he can heal super fast, but him having to dig the bullets out was necessary because the flesh healed around the bullet. See that made sense to me.

How do I distinguish Jim Starlin's Captain Marvel? Is there an Amazing or Uncanny or something in front of it?

Keep the suggestions coming. Thanks!

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Oooh... even though I am not a fan of Vampire shit, this Preacher one looks pretty awesome. Might give that a shot.

[Kulaf]

I think Jim started on issue 24 or 25 and culminated with the death of Captain Marvel.

[Fallakin Kuvari]

Wolverine Origins.

[Arathena]

Watchmen.

I was a big fan of the Age of Apocalypse timeline where Marvel scrambled up all its heros and villains in a pretty nasty dystopia. Lots of mutants die, some in very amusing ways.

[Fallakin Kuvari]

Watchmen.

Also this, Fantastic.

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World wasn't bad either.

[Ddrak]

I know this is pretty lame, but I'm actually enjoying X-Men from the start.

Dd

[Jarochai Alabaster]

I cannot recommend Preacher highly enough. And yeah, Cassidy is one of the most badass vampire characters in the history of anything vampire, because he's not a fucking gothtard. Preacher, as the name may imply, is heavy on the Christian mythology, but the story is absofuckinglutely phenomenal. And Jesse Custer is my personal anti-hero. Read this one, you won't regret it.

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You're right Jar, this is good stuff. Right up my alley. I found this link http://goo.gl/NtE1v and all of them sound appealing.

[Jarochai Alabaster]

I actually own about the first half of Y. Never finished collecting it, never finished reading it. Been telling myself I'm going to do both for years.

Edit: Gwildor was all over Planetary and Transmetropolitan. Another one of his favorites was Crimson, which was a bizarre, almost chibby kind of vampire...something. I never could get into Planetary or Transmet, though they were interesting, and Crimson was just blegh. Don't know if that may be one you'd want to check out though.

[Harlowe]

Can't recommend Preacher enough, Watchman as well and Wolverine Origins.

The Walking Dead
The Sandman
Fables
Ex-Machina
Transmetropolitan

The Creepy and Eerie archives books are fun.
http://www.amazon.com/Eerie-Archives-1- ... 1595822453

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World is kind of hipster bullshit.

[Arathena]

Oh, yeah, stayed away because of the 'somewhat grounded in realism' question, but Sandman is fantastic, as is Lucifer, where whoever it was took Gaiman's Lucifer character and took him on a post-Hell adventure.