What are your top 3 independent titles

[dr3dg3]

In order mine are:

1. Empowered
2. Switch
3. IXth Generation

Empowered is my favorite comic and has been for years. Top Cow's Switch has only had one issue, but that issue alone has convinced me to follow the series closely and I greatly look forward to #2. IXth Generation continues the plot threads started back in Top Cow's revived Cyber Force and Aphrodite IX series. Like Switch, IXth Generation has a lot to offer for existing Top Cow fans and is a fun, fast-paced continuation of the post-Artifacts Top Cow universe. After six issues, things are getting really good. I really hope Top Cow continues this trend of keeping the lore of their universe going strong.

[Dark-Flux]

Err...should probably let you know that IXth Generation is ending.

[dr3dg3]

Really? Was hoping it would be at least as long as Aphrodite IX and Cyber Force.

At least there will still be Switch. So glad to have come in at the beginning and really hope it will be an ongoing series.

[Doughy Man!]

at the moment (and setting aside Image.)

1. Harrow County (Dark Horse)
2. Toil and Trouble (Boom)
3. Letter 44 (Oni)

[Cap10nate]

Including Image, it would be:
1. Velvet
2. Lazarus
3. X-O Manowar

Excluding Image, it would be:
1. X-O Manowar
2. Imperium
3. TMNT with Rai right behind it.

[TheFerg714]

Excluding Valiant:
1. Birthright
2. Black Hood
3. Buffy Season 10

Including Valiant
1. Imperium
2. Bloodshot Renorn
3. X-O Manowar

[harashkupo]

1. Imperium
2. Lazarus
3. Luther Strode

Imperium is a strong first and for me honestly nothing compares. If X were still ongoing it would probably be on the list.

[ksbord]

I only read Valiant, so...

1) Imperium
2) Ivar, Timewalker
3) Bloodshot Reborn

[cranger]

This is really tough to choose, but...

1) Usagi Yojimbo
2) Groo: Friends & Foes
3) Captain Canuck

[Alhazred]

Ok. Excluding Image and Valiant.

+ Copra - Michel Fiffe
+ The Goon - Eric Powell
+ We Can Never Go Home - Patrick Kindlon, Matthew Rosenberg and Josh Hood

[MajorHoy]

Why are people choosing to exclude Valiant and Image?

They aren't anywhere near as major as DC and Marvel.

Looking at the October 2015 Comic Book Sales Figures list on Comichron (http://www.comichron.com/monthlycomi...5/2015-10.html), which is primarily numbers from Diamond based on what comic book shops in the U.S. ordered,

* Image at least had six titles place in the Top 100:

23 Paper Girls 1 $2.99 Image 75,585
26 Walking Dead 147 $2.99 Image 67,056
42 I Hate Fairyland 1 $3.50 Image 50,318
53 We Stand On Guard 4 $2.99 Image 40,197
83 Tokyo Ghost 2 $3.99 Image 27,688
99 Black Magick 1 $3.99 Image 22,748

* But Valiant? Look at their top five titles:

96 Book of Death 4 $3.99 Valiant 23,205
181 Book of Death Fall of X-O Manowar 1 $3.99 Valiant 10,112
190 Bloodshot Reborn 7 $3.99 Valiant 9,716
210 Ninjak 8 $3.99 Valiant 8,114
220 Rai 11 $3.99 Valiant 7,549

In that case, do we have to exclude Dark Horse?

60 Fight Club 2 6 $3.99 Dark Horse 36,671
144 Hellboy & BPRD 1953 Phantom Hand & Kelpie $3.50 Dark Horse 14,247
145 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 10 20 $3.99 Dark Horse 14,184
185 Goon In Theatre Bizarre 1 $3.99 Dark Horse 9,909
192 Angel and Faith Season 10 19 $3.99 Dark Horse 9,437

IDW?

27 Back to the Future 1* $3.99 IDW 67,015
67 TMNT Ongoing 50 $7.99 IDW 33,553
76 Jem & The Holograms Outrageous Annual 1 $7.99 IDW 31,020
95 TMNT Ongoing 51 $3.99 IDW 23,247
97 Star Trek Green Lantern 4* $3.99 IDW 23,184

Dynamite?

90 Grumpy Cat 1 $3.99 Dynamite 23,781
180 Bobs Burgers Ongoing 4 $3.99 Dynamite 10,254
186 Red Sonja Conan 3 $3.99 Dynamite 9,824
195 Swords of Sorrow 6 $3.99 Dynamite 9,238
206 Aliens Vampirella 2 $3.99 Dynamite 8,524

How are we qualifying "independent titles" here?

[RLAAMJR.]

None for now but before,

1. X from Dark Horse
2. Ghost from Dark Horse
3. Captain Midnight from Dark Horse

[Detox]

None for now but before,

1. X from Dark Horse
2. Ghost from Dark Horse
3. Captain Midnight from Dark Horse

I do miss X and Captain Midnight. Ghost was good, but not great for me.

[friendly-fire-press]

Only three??? That's tough

Southern Bastards

Bloodshot Reborn

Crossed Badlands

***Honorable mentions: Walking Dead, Sex Criminals, Fight Club 2

[Carabas]

- Lazarus.
Might be the best thing Rucka's ever written.

- Velvet.
-Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 10