Originally posted by Deadline
Whats good in Image? Apart from Invincible.
Saga is a really good epic space opera/romance. Couple on either side of a big war, fell in love, had kid, run from bounty-hunters, in weird universe with fantastic art.
By Brian Vaughn, of Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, and Runaways, and Fiona Staples, who your eyes will love.
Lazarus by Greg Rucka is another I really love. It's the future, things fell apart, now things are controlled by ultra-rich Families. The families use their technology to enhance a champion, or Lazarus, to be really, really hard to kill, and be the point of their spear, so to speak. Forever Carlyle is the Carlyle family Lazarus, and she's got to deal with internal family bickering, external threats, and questions of her origin. This comic has some great world-building, and makes things seem very real.
It's Greg Rucka, too, and he's pretty much always good- and this is my favorite thing by him.
Originally posted by Deadline
Yea I was gonna say you make it sound like getting out is a bad thing. I'm thinking of getting out of the big two.What's IDW?
They do Transformers and Godzilla and some other licensed things.
Ever since the start of the 'two ongoings' era, IDW transformers has been fantastic. There's a comic, The Death of Optimus Prime (which comes with the Robots in Disguise collection, even though it's technically the last issue of the prior run), and then after that there's Robots in Disguise, about post-war Cybertron, and More Than Meets The Eye, about a crew of transformers on a space quest.
And you will love them. Probably More Than Meets The Eye especially, but both are great.
There's stuff in IDW transformers before it (like I said, post-war, and the IDW TF universe starts late-war), but that's where you start. It is designed as a jumping on point, and it works.
Chris Sims, Batmanologist of ComicsAlliance did a series of posts, 'The Transformed Man,' about how it turned him from someone who couldn't care less about Transformers to saying More Than Meets The Eye is his favorite comic coming out right now.
Start here
Originally posted by Endless Mike
I heard that IDW's Godzilla comics were sub-par, though
The Half-Century War is an exception to that, it's a really evocative, impressive self-contained story, about a character living in the shadow of Godzilla and watching his rampages over time. Read it, love it.
The reception was great, so the creative team got hired back, for Godzilla in Hell.
IDW's ongoing Godzilla is weaker, but those two are great.
Originally posted by Khazra Reborn
At Marvel, if you want to read Secret Wars, you should probably start with Hickman's Avengers/New Avengers run. But that's 50+ issues, which is a bit of a chore, but is worth it IMO.
Possible, but not necessary, jumping into the SW series itself isn't hard. A lot of the Secret War tie-ins are very self contained, you don't need to follow a lot of side books. I'd say Marvel's not bad at all right now, on the whole.
As for good Marvel stuff, aside from Mark Waid's Daredevil as mentioned, I will also mention Ms. Marvel, about young pakistani-New Jersey teen Kamala Khan, who idolizes Carol Danvers. Who gets hit with Inhuman gas, gets shapeshifting/size powers (like, she can make her hands huge to hit someone), and is just a really fun character.
If you liked Blue Beetle at DC (Jaime Reyes, first run), you'll probably like Kamala too.
There's a number of fairly good books too (for example, Loki: Agent of Asgard, which follows off Young Avengers, which follows off Journey into Mystery, which starts with Loki reincarnated as a kid after he realized being evil was too predictable, and wanted to become something else), but Daredevil and Ms. Marvel, are my bets.