What is the best superhero book not published by the big two?

[mathew101281]

Invincible? Unity? some obscure title I've never heard of?

[TheFerg714]

X-O Manowar.

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[Tony Stark]

I would say Captain Midnight by Dark Horse.

[ksbord]

Unity isn't quite there yet, but I would say Harbinger. Josh Dysart has crafted an epic tale.

[Ying Ko]

X-O Manowar.

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this.

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[Hero]

Invincible, imo.

[Dark-Flux]

Invincible

[BugsySig]

Top 5: Harbinger, XO Manowar, Archer & Armstrong, Invincible, Captain Midnight.

[MajorHoy]

I would say Captain Midnight by Dark Horse.

Seconded..

[md62]

Capt Midnight.

[cc008]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

[Shadowras]

X-O Manowar definitely.

[Professor Moriarty]

I would say Captain Midnight by Dark Horse.

Seconded!

one of the best.

[TotalSnorefest]

Invincible, the Valiant universe, the Gold Key characters and Dark Horse's Project Black Sky are probably the most obvious candidates. But just to throw a few curveballs into the mix:

-Ex Machina was a 50 issue Wildstorm series by Brian K Vaughan that mixes the West Wing with the Rocketeer. What if a superhero ran for mayor of NYC?
-God Hates Astronauts is an Image comedy series that mixes crass language with immature jokes and plays heavily off of superhero tropes.

All of the Extreme Studios relaunches at Image. They're all ending/have ended soon.
-Glory (Keatinge/Ross Campbell) was probably the most straightforward of the bunch. The overhaul was mostly visual (Glory herself went from scantily-clad ultra thin to being built like a battletank) but the story is still pretty rooted in superheroism.
-Prophet is probably the best of the bunch and ventured wildly from the source material; the current Prophet series is set like 50 000 years later with clones awakening from cryo-sleep in an attempt to kickstart the human race. Later issues veer closer to superheroics, but for the most part Prophet is bonkers insane sci-fi that just happens to share a name with a superhero series.
-Supreme: Blue Rose is wrapping up soon and is very much a deconstruction of the idea of superheroes. Gorgeous art, don't read it if you're looking for a straight story though, Warren Ellis isn't here to write dudes punching dudes. This is really a wild-card though, as it's about as removed from superheroes as possibly whilst still ostensibly being about a superhero. If you though Fraction's Hawkeye departed much from the premise, you ain't seen nothing yet.

[Detox]

If X doesn't count as a superhero, then Capt Midnight gets my vote as well.