Recs if you like Mister Miracle...

Why settle for indie when you have that sweet and gentle mainstream? Here’s some of the best of the heaviest hitters around.

First issues/arcs may stand in for entire volumes/series’.

Don't have time to read 500 X-Men books, or a billion Bat-related books? Here's a list of books you can read without an atlas for backstories. Start at the beginning, get to the end, and if you want more...awesome. If not? You just read a whole complete story. Most of these books examine tropes and are not just Strong White Guy beats up disadvantaged humans or unrelatable aliens.

No matter if you start with an issue or a volume, these are some of my favorite stories and voices leading the way in the comic book industry today.