What would be your top 20 NON-Superhero comics

[mrbrklyn]

In no particular order:
1. Heavy Liquid
2.Strangers in Paradise
3.Coffin Hill
4.Preacher
5.Y the Last Man
6.Northlanders
7.Blue Monday
8.Grendel Tales
9.Deadly Class
10.Saga
11.Wicked and the Divine
12.Lucifer
13.Rachel Rising
14.I Zombie
15.The Invisibles
16.Dead @17
17.Pride of Baghdad
18.Fables
19.Hopeless Savages
20.Freak Angels

Grendal Tales is so under appreciated

[mrbrklyn]

Here’s my top 20 (in alphabetical order):

1- Afterlife With Archie
2- Ai Yori Aoshi *
3- Cardcaptor Sakura *
4- Conan the Barbarian (Marvel)
5- Fruits Basket *
6- Fushigi Yugi *
7- G.I. Joe (Marvel)
8- Jonah Hex
9- Life With Archie: The Married Life
10- Magic Knight Rayearth *
11- Oh My Goddess *
12- Red Sonja (Marvel)
13- Sailor Moon *
14- Skip-Beat! *
15- Star Trek (DC & Marvel)
16- Tarzan (Marvel)
17- Tomb of Dracula
18- Transformers (Marvel)
19- Video Girl Ai *
20- Warlord

* manga

These IDW Star Trek TNG have been really good.
Well written.

[mrbrklyn]

I don't have 20

The Walking Dead
Sin City
100 Bullets
Pryde of Baghdad
We3
The Eternals (Marvel MAX)
Saga (but I've only read up to book 4)
Orbiter
Conan the Barbarian (Busiek and Nord)
I Am Legion

I like science-fiction, fantasy, action, etc. The kind of stuff that doesn't happen in real life. This list would be a lot easier if I could include Planetary and Immortal Iron Fist

Orbiter is another Ellis Classic

[Powerboy]

Since Action #1 Superheros seem to have dominated this field in Comics. But it is not just superheros and it really never has been like that. Comics, of course have had much humor, and romance, but a great deal of the books are hard to classify. Nemo in Sluberland is a pure fantasy... or is it?

Give it some thought. What are you favorite 20 non-superhero runs?

I realize there is a thin line sometimes between what is and isn't a superhero comic but I'm trying to delve into memories of some of the comics I liked as a kid though this is by no means a top 20 list.

Casper the Friendly Ghost
Wendy the Good Witch
Hot Stuff the Little Devil
Archie
Classics Illustrated
Various Tarzan stories and similar stories

All I can come up with right now discounting things that are kind of in the superhero category and even some of these kind of are.

[mrbrklyn]

I realize there is a thin line sometimes between what is and isn't a superhero comic but I'm trying to delve into memories of some of the comics I liked as a kid though this is by no means a top 20 list.

Casper the Friendly Ghost
Wendy the Good Witch
Hot Stuff the Little Devil
Archie
Classics Illustrated
Various Tarzan stories and similar stories

All I can come up with right now discounting things that are kind of in the superhero category and even some of these kind of are.

Here is a new one for you
https://archive.org/details/rabbiscat00sfar

[Arfguy]

Orbiter is another Ellis Classic

I definitely need to re-read it again soon.

I knew I'd forget a few, so I'll add:

Arrowsmith and the unfinished Battle Chasers. I never got into Battle Chasers when it was coming out, but the trade that I got was pretty awesome. Arrowsmith was a complete story and it was a cool take. Makes me want to re-visit a lot of those old Cliffhanger published comics, because they were done right, IMO. Creator-owned and passion projects of the creators.

[mrbrklyn]

I definitely need to re-read it again soon.

I knew I'd forget a few, so I'll add:

Arrowsmith and the unfinished Battle Chasers. I never got into Battle Chasers when it was coming out, but the trade that I got was pretty awesome. Arrowsmith was a complete story and it was a cool take. Makes me want to re-visit a lot of those old Cliffhanger published comics, because they were done right, IMO. Creator-owned and passion projects of the creators.

These books sometimes do better in a graphiic novel format. Not Planetary though...

[Conch22]

Grendal Tales is so under appreciated

Given that Tales established Susan Veraghen, it seems essential for the concluding novel Past Prime. Aside from that, while not all the stories are essential, they do add alot more flavor and depth to an already rich universe, whether it's a South American civil war or a Grendel versus a Vamp in a frozen wasteland, it really broadens the scope of Wagners opus.

[mrbrklyn]

Given that Tales established Susan Veraghen, it seems essential for the concluding novel Past Prime. Aside from that, while not all the stories are essential, they do add alot more flavor and depth to an already rich universe, whether it's a South American civil war or a Grendel versus a Vamp in a frozen wasteland, it really broadens the scope of Wagners opus.

Nobody has even mentioned Wagner yet.... Maybe Grendel is a Super Hero? I need to pull those books from the storage and look them over.

[GOLGO 13]

Hellboy
Godzilla
Sabrina:CT
HIVE (Korean horror web comic)
Conan
TW Dead
AO Titan
Parasyte
anything Junji Ito produces
BELZEBUBS (black metal webcomic)

[Conch22]

Nobody has even mentioned Wagner yet.... Maybe Grendel is a Super Hero? I need to pull those books from the storage and look them over.

He has a costume and a codename and has squared off against Batman and The Shadow (both great crossovers), so while he's definitely a sociopathic villain not dissimilar from Hannibal Lectre, he feels ingrained in the world of superheroes to the extent I was reticent to count him, despite liking the character. His granddaughter Christine Spar, as Grendel, definitely fits the hero mold

[Raiders]

The Kingsman comic

[Arfguy]

I don't think it'd be considered superhero, but I really liked Silent Dragon when I read it.

[mrbrklyn]

42. Gamble Fish
43. Ai Yori Aoshi (translation: Bluer Than Indigo)
44. Cat's Eye by Tsukasa Hojo
45. Hinamatsuri
46. City Hunter by Tsukasa Hojo
47. Teisou Gyakuten Sekai (translation: Chastity Reverse World)
48. Mitsudomoe
49. Candy & Cigarettes
50. Onigiri Sasa

No Swedish books?