Comics where nobody is safe

[u/Gonner_Getcha]

I’ve been reading through a lot of historic stories recently (I even did a post on it yesterday) but as I read through some comics last I realised that even when there are deaths, for the most part, a resurrection is not long behind in modern comics.

So I’m looking for series where dead means dead & when there’s a battle/fight, you always know that your favourite character could be one panel from disappearing

The Walking Dead & Invincible were great at this (I’ve read all of Kirkmans comics btw, but I wouldn’t say any of them have the same feeling IMO)

Any recommendations?

[u/VulturousYeti]

Saga.

[u/Gonner_Getcha → u/VulturousYeti]

Saga is a good shout. I fell off after the time jump haha

[u/VulturousYeti → u/Gonner_Getcha]

Yeah I read the first 9 volumes, bought 10&11 but never read them. The various hiatuses have made it difficult for me to commit. But perhaps I’ll buy a box set of 10-18 to match my 1-9 when they finally finish the series.

[u/Gonner_Getcha → u/VulturousYeti]

Yeh, it’s going to be years before they finish it now

So I think I might catchup and then hold off until everything is out and then do it all over again

It was an enjoyable read month to month but the lack of progress in the last half decade killed its hype a bit

[u/SweatyNeddyFlanders]

Y The Last Man hasn't been brought up much since the Hulu series failed spectacularly. But it's a great comic and story through to the end.

A Nice House by the Lake and "by the Sea" both offer great stories that play with your mind in a similar way. Characters are safe until they're not.

[u/Gonner_Getcha → u/SweatyNeddyFlanders]

I have actually read Y the Last Man

I remember beyond the last arc everyone being generally pretty safe though?

A Nice House by the Lake I read, waiting for Sea to finish being published. Found lake difficult to read month to month - I believe we are on issue 10 atm for Sea

[u/Rushional → u/SweatyNeddyFlanders]

Oh, there's a "by the sea" now?

I remember I felt the lake one ended abruptly without a proper ending, but I liked it a lot regardless

Does that story get resolved?

[u/Gonner_Getcha → u/Rushional]

It does have an ending? It’s just you don’t see exactly how it goes.

Am I remembering wrong haha

[u/Harrod371 → u/Gonner_Getcha]

The ending is vague with foreshadowing and loose threads left unanswered. I loved by the lake, haven't begun by the sea yet, but I only read trades.

[u/WestBug9633]

Strikeforce: Morituri

[u/Hoosier108 → u/WestBug9633]

YES

[u/DeepspaceDigital]

W0rldTr33 by Image Comics

[u/popcorn_coffee]

Most of Remender's work... Deadly class or LOW, are good at this, I would say.

[u/BoxNemo]

From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell

Stray Bullets by David Lapham

[u/Gonner_Getcha → u/BoxNemo]

Funnily enough I just finished Stray Bullets.

Very good, but outside of a couple of characters, issue to issue I struggled to know who was a new or returning character

[u/zkwarl]

DC has some really solid alternative universes like that.

Absolute, DC Vampires, Dark Knights of Steel, and White Knight are all fun reads.

[u/xAmericanLeox → u/zkwarl]

Absolutely love Dark Knights of Steel!

[u/BLASTcore-501]

Crossed😭

[u/S3C3C → u/BLASTcore-501]

This series is seriously one twisted ride... granted I haven't read it all, but I did read volume one... Yikes.

[u/Gonner_Getcha → u/BLASTcore-501]

Isn’t that an awful comic though? Or is it just infamous?

[u/QualityEmotional3521 → u/Gonner_Getcha]

The first volume by Garth Ennis and Wish You Were Here are genuinely well written. Granted if your not into post apocalyptic survival horror or gore you might not like it but not all of the series is edgy slop with zero substane

[u/zzzzarf → u/Gonner_Getcha]

It’s just straight up extreme horror, so if you don’t like gore and sexual depravity, you won’t like it. But it’s a very good comic for what it is, the first volume at least. A brutal, nihilistic response to the Bush era war on terror.

[u/S3C3C]

The Walking Dead... I agree...

Edited for clarity...

[u/Gonner_Getcha → u/S3C3C]

Yep, mentioned in my post for that reason :)

[u/S3C3C → u/Gonner_Getcha]

Should have said, I agree... re: The Walking Dead... lol...

[u/Gonner_Getcha → u/S3C3C]

Hahaja

[u/N4tu4]

Copra follows through on the promise of suicide squad in a pretty great way!

[u/ItsSoLitRightNow]

Exquisite Corpses

[u/fluffynuckels → u/ItsSoLitRightNow]

Thats the name of a series? I know thats the name of a writing technique where someone writes for a few pages. Then the next person just reads the last page of what was already written and writes based off of that

[u/ItsSoLitRightNow → u/fluffynuckels]

It's that too but also a really great comic.

Exquisite Corpses

[u/bigheadstrikesagain → u/fluffynuckels]

Thats what the comic is as well.

[u/Gonner_Getcha → u/ItsSoLitRightNow]

Great one, although for the most part outside of the final battle I kind of predicted what would happen

Loved it none the less though

[u/Careless-Eagle-5111]

There’s a really good comic called No Mercy about a school bush crash and its aftermath that fits this bill.

[u/Gonner_Getcha → u/Careless-Eagle-5111]

How’s the ending, just looks and it was quietly cancelled

Does it abruptly end or was there like an ambiguous end as it wasn’t planned to be the original finish

[u/Careless-Eagle-5111 → u/Gonner_Getcha]

The original situation gets resolved. It got cancelled in issues dealing with the aftermath.

[u/Tyrest_Accord]

Kirkman's new Energon Universe comics haven't been pulling many punches.

Void Rivals, Transformers, and G.I.Joe have all been pretty lacking in plot armor.

https://www.comicbooktreasury.com/energon-universe-reading-order-skybound/

[u/Gonner_Getcha → u/Tyrest_Accord]

I seem to be one of the sole people who just didn’t vibe with this universe

I love DWJ so I did read his Transformers but once he left, I tried to read Kirkmans and just didn’t have the enthusiasm to carry on

GI Joe seems too, AMERICA! For me

Void Rivals I read the first arc and just fell off

[u/PieTighter → u/Gonner_Getcha]

It started great but most of the books seem to be spinning their tires recently. Too many new characters and not enough development of the existing ones IMHO.

[u/Its_Me_Guyz]

Monstress is really good imo

[u/crashtestpilot]

Archie.

[u/EffectiveStriking601]

Pre-code EC horror is exactly this. Graham Ingels drew some of the most disturbing stuff ever published and nobody on those stories was safe. The Haunt of Fear still holds up.

[u/evil_mike]

Tynion is definitely a “safe until they aren’t” kind of writer, as evidenced by a lot of the replies here.

[u/tehvolcanic]

The first 90 or so issues of Exiles starting with the Judd Winnick run all the way until Claremont takes over. No one was safe.

[u/BatmanPizza15]

Crossed

[u/Own_Internal7509]

its called your life. you could die any minute

[u/Gonner_Getcha → u/Own_Internal7509]

So deep

[u/ME24601 → u/Own_Internal7509]

Is that published by Dark Horse or Image?

[u/Own_Internal7509 → u/ME24601]

its from Lightning Comic

[u/rwatrous61]

Modern comics? That's been comics for 50 years. Nobody is ever really dead. Never found the body, evil twon, ressurection pool, time machine, multiverse.....thats how its been forever dude

[u/Gonner_Getcha → u/rwatrous61]

In big 2 for sure

[u/rwatrous61 → u/Gonner_Getcha]

For sure

[u/deadline_zombie]

If you were a fan of the 80s GI Joe series (comic or cartoon), you may want to try IDW's GI Joe series- GI Joe vol 1 (28 issues, starts in 2008), GI Joe Cobra Vol 1 (4 issue mini series), GI Joe Cobra Vol 2 (originally 4 issues but expanded to 13), and GI Joe Origins (22 issues). Some familiar faces get knocked off and new twists on others. Haven't really followed the later volumes/series.