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Originally Posted by Human Torch
These are pretty much the only comics I follow(along with deadpool for my superhero fix) and recommend them as well. Good stuff KTrain, I think I'll check out your other suggestions, we have similar tastes.
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Definitely check out Starman and DMZ then.
Starman is completed with 75 issues + annuals. They've produced 2 omnibus trades (6 total are planned) so far with another coming in the fall. $36 on Amazon for 17 comics isn't too bad.
DMZ is on it's sixth trade I think. The art isn't as great as some of the other stuff but the story more than makes up for it. Here's a quick synopsis from Amazon.
A near-future America is torn by war between the Free Armies, who control New Jersey and the inland, and the United States, ensconced in New York City's boroughs. In the war-torn DMZ of Manhattan, Matty Roth, hired as a phototech intern to a famous battlefield journalist, is stranded when the rest of his crew is killed. Overcoming initial panic, he decides to remain as the sole embedded journalist in the devastated, largely depopulated city. It's a career-making assignment--if it doesn't get him killed. Befriended by former med student Zee, who runs a clinic, Matty discovers a society struggling to survive amid skirmishes and snipers (appropriate soundtrack music: Talking Heads' "Life during Wartime"). Of the DMZ issues collected here, the first three establish its premise. In the succeeding two, Matty discovers the "Ghosts of Central Park"--paramilitaries who defend the now-deforested preserve and its zoo animals--and chases a robber who steals his press badge. Wood's writing does justice to the intriguing concept, and Burchielli's jagged artwork effectively conveys the characters' desperation.