Vertigo is a DC imprint that publishes mature stories for mature individuals such as yourself. Seriously though, it's all self contained work and it's great. Think of it like the comic book equivalent of HBO.
Recommendations
Title |
Genre | No. of Issues/Collections | Description | Cover |
100 Bullets | Action, Crime, Thriller, Noir |
100 issues |
The mysterious hard-ass Agent Graves gives people the chance to take revenge on the people who fucked their life over, and no matter what, they get away with it. But can you really trust him? Who are the Minutemen? |
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A History Of Violence | Crime, thriller, drama | Single graphic novel | After defending his café from two robbers, Tom McKenna becomes a local celebrity. He is soon visited by a group of gangsters who claim Tom is actually a man named Joey who crossed them 20 years ealier. | |
American Splendor | ||||
American Virgin | ||||
American Vampire | ||||
Animal Man | ||||
Army@Love | ||||
Bite Club | ||||
Books of Magic | ||||
DMZ | ||||
Doom Patrol | ||||
Fables | Fantasy | 109+ issues, ongoing |
Characters from fairytales are exiled from their world and come to live and settle in our own. Has a spinoff, Jack of Fables, and numerous minis that are worth a look if you enjoy it. |
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Flinch | ||||
Hellblazer | Horror, fantasy | John Constantine is a sarcastic, cynical, blue collar, chain smoking warlock and confidence man who deals with the supernatural on a daily basis. | ||
House of Mystery | ||||
House of Secrets | ||||
It's a Bird... | Drama, autobiography | One single volume | A writer is offered the chance to write Superman but he is reluctant to do so, as he believes Superman is outdated and irrelevant. He is given some time to think it over, and during this time he begins to draw parallels between Superman, his own life, and the effects that an incurable, hereditary disease has caused throughout his family history. | |
Joe the Barbarian | Fantasy | 8 issues | ||
Kill Your Boyfriend | ||||
Loveless | ||||
Lucifer | ||||
Madam Xanadu | ||||
Northlanders | 46 issues (will finish at 50) | |||
Orbiter | ||||
Preacher | ||||
Sandman Mystery Theatre | ||||
Scalped | ||||
Seaguy | Superhero, adventure | 6 issues | Seaguy is a superhero living in a world where superheroes are no longer needed. | |
Saga of the Swamp Thing | Fantasy, horror | |||
The Exterminators | ||||
The Filth | 13 Issues | |||
The Invisibles | Action, adventure, thriller, conspiracy | |||
The Losers | ||||
The Quitter | ||||
The Sandman | Fantasy, horror | 75 issues plus some specials. | A series of stories revolving around Dream of the Endless (who are neither Gods nor immortals, but personifications of universal forces). Takes place throughout centuries and involves many elements from world mythology. | |
The Unkown Soldier | ||||
The Unwritten | ||||
Transmetropolitan | Sci-fi, political, satire | 60 issues, collected into 10 volumes. | A gonzo journalist returns to the city from a self-imposed exile and quickly finds himself at odds with the two presidential candidates, whom he antagonizes and exposes from a column at a local newspaper. | |
V for Vendetta | Dystopian | 10 issues, collected as a single trade | In the year 1997 England is one of the few countries that survived a nuclear holocaust. As a means to protect the country, the government has fallen into fascism. An anarchist named V starts a one-man war against the party in power, but what are his motivations? Is he really just a freedom fighter or is it much more complex than that? | |
We3 | Sci-Fi | 3 Issues | ||
Y: The Last Man | Adventure, Speculative fiction | 60 issues | All males (human and animal) around the world drop dead at the exact same moment. The only two survivors of the event are a young man named Yorick and his monkey pet. Together they travel cross country as they try to figure out what happened and try to survive in a world now practically run by women. | |
Young Liars |