What independent comics publishers are you reading? What's good about them? Looking for recommendations. Except big companies
What independent comics publishers are you reading? What's good about them? Looking for recommendations. Except big companies
*Looks at pull list
Image, Dark Horse, Aftershock, Boom, Dynamite, IDW, Valiant, Rebellion, Vault and Ahoy
Valiant has been amazing in its third generation and that's even after the company had major changes in management more than a year ago. They publish less than ten books each month, so it's easy to buy everything. There's been a lot of solid world-building across the universe that becomes quite noticeable if one reads all their books.
Zenescope became quite good somewhere along the way. Yeah, they catch a lot of flack for their good-girl or "pornographic" cover variants, but I started picking up some of their books about two years ago and now buy everything from them faithfully. Most recently I'm impressed by the Gretel mini-series and the various Robyn Hood mini-series; however, I still don't get the appeal of Grimm Fairy Tales -- their only ongoing series which is now in its second run.
I used to buy everything from Vault but now I buy nothing because they can't even bother to finish publishing many of their mini-series. They'll publish two or three issues and then you get stuck buying a trade collection to get the rest of the series. That's BS! Buy some of their collections. Don't waste money on their floppies!
Warrant has been publishing The Creeps, a bi-monthly black-and-white horror magazine that's an homage to Creepy.
I like a few of the Archie titles, especially Sabrina stuff. Kickstarter has White Ash, The Few and the Cursed, Miskatonic High, Die Kitty Die and some other great stuff. White Ash is the best comic book series I've read in years: sort of a Twin Peaks/Lord of the Rings mash-up that is dark, mysterious, operatic and sometimes funny. There's a hardcover collection of the first four issues of White Ash (that's actually around 150 pages of story because the issues are longer than what everyone else offers).
I would recommend Gold Key Comics starting with Doctor Solar.
Dynamite, Scout, Vault, Aftershock and some Dark Horse.
“To the future or to the past. To a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone - to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: from the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink - greetings!" - Winston Smith
IDW, Boom, Image & Dark House (in that order) fo me.
"So you've come to the end now alive but dead inside."
I read IDW, Dynamite, and Aspen stuff. Usually from Humble Bundles when they pop up, but I also get the books on Comixology when there is a sale. If Image counts as Indie, I also read a couple titles from them.
*Edit* Also, I occasionally read Zenescope, but I haven't read as much since Pat Shand left.
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I still miss Renee Montoya. Oh, and I'm a dude.
Valiant, Boom, Dynamite and Aftershocks
For March, I'm pre-ordering 2 titles from Image, which two-three years ago sold me easily 3x as many titles;
3 from Dark Horse, which many years ago sold me many many titles, recently: not so much;
IDW (to my surprise) offers me 3 for March;
after these, I get one or two from each of Ahoy, Dynamite, Abstract Studios, Albatross--and not-REALLY-DC Berger Books--I'm actually getting 3 of those (though 2 on spec. as they've not published yet), Titan, Vault...
Age/Bronze, Age/Reptiles, Alex&Ada, Anne Bonnie, Astro City, Bone, Briggs Land, Cerebus, Criminal, Courtney Crumrin, Eleanor & the Egret, Fables, Fatale, Fell, Grass Kings, Green Valley, Goon, Gotham Midnight, Groo, Hellboy, Hillbilly, Incognegro, Jack Staff, JL8, Jonah Hex, Kane, Lazarus, Little Nemo, Lone Wolf, Next Wave, Popeye, Powers, Princess Ugg, Resident Alien, SiP, Squirrel Girl, Stray Bullets, 10G, Thief of Thieves, Tuki, Uncle Scrooge, Usagi, Velvet
American Mythology has put out some enjoyable ERB stories.
In order:
VALIANT
IDW
Dark Horse
Dynamite
Boom (though it has been some time since I got anything from them)
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