I'm thinking theres bound to be a book I've missed or haven't heard of. So what are your favorite non super hero comics?

My list
Bone, Torso, Fortune and Glory, Akira, Usagi Yojimbo, Transmetropolitian.

Hellblazer

The Walking Dead.

Hmm...a short list: Fables, Y, Preacher, Transmet, Torso, 100 Bullets, Queen & Country, Sentinel, Ex Machina.

In addition to the many fine comics already mentioned, let me add Age of Bronze, and a trio of 80s comics recently made re-available in TPB -- Alien Legion, Grimjack, and Jon Sable: Freelance.

And, of course, the Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

Cerebus, Bone, Castle Waiting, Finder, Thieves and Kings, Dork Tower, Nodwick, Walking Dead, Fables, Lucifer, Strangehaven, Jane's World, Strangers in Paradise, Bone, assorted one shots like Three Fingers,DR and Quinch, Through the Habitrails.

Preacher, the one comic I really looked forward to every month.

Reminds me, I should look at cutting down my pull list.. a lot of books just aren't doing it for me anymore..

Most of my favorite comics are non-superhero. Sandman, Preacher, Books of Magic, Fables, Y, 100 Bullets (yeah, I'm a bit of a Vertigo fanboy).

I completly forgot to mention stray bullets. One of my favorite comics.

My Favs: Bone (read from issue 9 till end - 10 great years!), Preacher, Strangers in Paradise, Sin City

Also: Madman, Stray Bullets, 100 Bullets & Blue Monday

Wait, Alien Legion is getting TPBs now? Since when?

I've always loved Groo, though I don't think Evanier, Aragones and the gang are doing anymore. I wish they collected them. I also enjoy Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo, though I haven't read it in a while.

Lots and lots of manga.

The Vertigo stuff has been pretty throoughly covered.

V For Vendetta, definitely not a superhero series.

Although it's no longer around, I really enjoyed the series "Flinch" from Vertigo several years back.

Is hulk a superhero?

Theres an issue of flinch that bruce timm did that I'm tempted to get, but don't know if it's worth it.

GI Joe
Transformers

About three years now. There are three volumes in print from Checker Books, with more presumably on the way sooner or later. Strangely, the first two volumes cover the second series, with the third volume back-tracking to reprint the first series. Click on the cover shots for a link to Checker's website, from which you can order the books:


Alien Legion: Force Nomad (reprints Vol. 2 #1-11)


Alien Legion: Piecemaker (reprints Vol. 2 #12-18)


Alien Legion: Footsloggers (reprints Vol. 1 #1-6)

There are also two volumes from Titan Distributing. I'm not sure if they're still in print, but poke around and you should be able to find copies:


Alien Legion: On the Edge (reprints the 3-issue mini from the early 90s)


Alien Legion: Tennants of Hell (reprints the 2-issue mini and the Jugger Grimrod one-shot from the early 90s)

What is Stray Bullets about?

Its a really dark crime--ish comic about kids who are dammed.

It really reminds me of like catcher in the rye/ bret easton ellis type of book. The criminal acts are more about the people doing immoral things then sort of the gangster type book. It won eisners and harveys if that tells you anything.

to quote amazon:
"The fictional world of Lapham's Harvey Award-winning comics series, Stray Bullets, is populated by an iconoclastic collection of cold-blooded thugs, hapless dope fiends and smart kids running from bad homes. This volume, sequel to Innocence of Nihilism, focuses on good-looking, utterly criminal Beth, her ineffectual boyfriend, Orson, and her drug-addled best friend, Nina, the former girlfriend of a mysterious gangster named Harry. On the run after stealing a load of Harry's cocaine, the trio is lying low in the absurd little town of Seaside, founded 100 miles from the coast by an earthquake-fixated developer who expected the next big tremor to bring the ocean to him. Seaside residents are a hilarious group of losers and sleazeballs, yet Orson decides the town is the perfect place to hide from homicidal drug dealers. Lapham's comical pulp-crime stories are thoroughly entertaining, full of heart-stopping action and over-the-top violence. Beautifully illustrated in black and white, they are rescued from empty sensationalism by the author's extraordinary draftsmanship; his quirky, unsentimental sense of comedy; and the genuine interactions he generates between his irresistibly flawed characters"

heres a picture of the artwork:
http://www.jasoneaxtell.com/Images/C.../Stray%203.jpg

there are two trades for the stray bullets. One collects 1-4 and is in black and white and another collects 1-7 and is color. They both have the same cover and are considered volume 1. I know this because I bought the black and white 1-4 first.

Thanks for the info, lukewarmwater! Sounds like something I'd like - I'll check it out.

I thought of another 80s-comic-being-repackaged-today: Maze Agency. Supposedly, IDW is doing both TPBs of the old stuff and a new 4-issue mini. Based on their track record with Grimjack and Jon Sable: Freelance, this should be good stuff.

For those who aren't familiar with Maze Agency, its about Jennifer Mays, who is a detective, and her boyfriend, Gabe Webb, who is a true crime writer. They solve mysteries, and the focus on the plots and their interactions are good, but the real hook of the series is that they are "fair play" mysteries -- the reader is given all the clues that the characters are given, so that (in theory), you can solve the case before Jennifer and Gabe do. It was a fun book (and the TPB of the old stuff will feature art by some young punk named Adam Hughes).

Aren't IDW collections (and comics) really expensive, though?

Hitman was a great book (written by Garth Ennis, art by John McCrea).

Sandman
Grendel

I don't know about really expensive. Most of their comics are $3.99 (at least the ones that I have bought) and the TPBs run $20-25, so I wouldn't say they are completely out of line with currently industry pricing. They have been releasing hardcover collections as well that are definitely more expensive than the TPBs.

You can see their online store here.

American Splendor

It's a couple years old now, but I loved Midnight Nation by J. Michael Straczynski and Gary Frank. I also dug Frank's Kin mini series, too.

Both are available in Trade Paperback.