Written by Nathan Hale, the series Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales is about a spy named Nathan Hale who, with the help of some comic book magic, lived through the most important event in American History. Everything begins when Hale is about to be hung. His last words were ‘I regret that I have but one…
Coming from Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the Dirk Gently series tells the adventures of an insufferable holistic detective. This is the story of Svlad Cjelli also known as Dirk Gently, a detective, a holistic detective to be accurate. He uses the fundamental interconnectedness of all things to solve mysteries….
From Marguerite Bennett, the writer of InSeXts and DC Comics Bombshells, and artist Rafael de Latorre (Superzero), the Animosity series is a road trip working as a coming-of-age story with black humor and a sci-fi twist. The pitch is: One day, for no reason, the animals woke up. They started thinking. They started talking. They…
Written by American novelist Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008) under the pseudonym Richard Stark, the Parker series is a classic crime (hard-boiled) series. This is about Parker, a ruthless career criminal, a heister, a pro, the best of them. He is the one you want if you plan a robbery, but you don’t want to cross…
Artemis Fowl is a twelve-year-old mischievous Irish mastermind, a member of a dysfunctional family with a rich history of crime. He can easily hatch a complicated and brilliant plan and it is exactly what he does to rebuild the Fawl Fortune after his father’s capture and his mother’s descent into madness. Artemis Fowl is intelligent,…
In a famous galaxy… What Star Wars: The High Republic is about? Launched in January 2021, Star Wars: The High Republic is an ongoing multimedia project with the mission to tell a cohesive story taking place during the High Republic. Charles Soule, Justina Ireland, Cavan Scott, Daniel José Older, and Claudia Gray are the principal…
Also known as The Peter Grant series, the Rivers of London series is written by English author Ben Aaronovitch. It’s composed of novels, short stories, audiobooks, and graphic novels (written by Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel, and illustrated by Lee Sullivan). This urban fantasy story is about Probationary Constable Peter Grant who, in the aftermath of…
Written by Victoria Schwab, an American fantasy author also simply known as V.E. Schwab (all of her books), The Shades of Magic series was originally an adult fantasy, but there are more books to come and even a comic prequel series. Kell is one of the last Antari-magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel…
This article will not be updated anymore. Since we have launched a blog dedicated to comic book reading orders, you can find an up-to-date version of this Boys Reading Order here. If there was only one Garth Ennis to read, it wouldn’t be The Boys, because nothing is better than Preacher. That said, in my…
Spinning out of the hit series Saga of Swamp Thing by Alan Moore, Steve Bissette and John Totleben in 1984, John Constantine became a popular character quite quickly and joined the new Vertigo line with his own title: Hellblazer. John Constantine is a working class occult detective and con man from London who is known…
Written by British writer Kim Newman, Anno Dracula is a historical/fantasy series in which vampires are common and increasingly dominant in society. This alternate history brings Count Dracula from Bram Stoker’s novel in Great Britain where nobody stopped him. The series focused on members of the mysterious Diogenes Club which represents the crown in matters…
After The Lazarus Contract, I’d like to go back to another mini-event from DC. I quite like the way they’re cross-promote their series. It gives a cohesive vision to the DC Universe. In that case, to the batfamily world. What is the Night of the Monster Men? Night of the Monster Men is the first…
