Best indies/creator owned comics

So I like Marvel and DC as much as the next guy, but i'm finding that I REALLY enjoy the indie stuff I read. Can anyone recommend me any indie comics that i'm currently not reading that I could check out and add to my pull? I don't mind if it is new or whether I have to get trades to catch up, but I would prefer ongoings rather than stuff that has finished. Here is what I am currently on;

Chew, The Massive, Saga, Fatale, The Walking Dead, American Vampire (not sure if considered indie but whatever).

I suppose my taste is semi-realistic dark stuff, although i'll try anything interesting.

Thanks.

Spawn and Invincible

Darkness & Witchblade of Top Cow Comics

the good thing right now is that they just had a Rebirth of their comics...so you can't truly miss out the 10 years they had given to their best characters yet.

Hellboy, seriously, Hellboy...

• 100%
• 100 Bullets
• Bone
• The Boys
• B.P.R.D/Hellboy
• Conan the Barbarian by Brian Wood
• Daytripper
• Demo (vol. 1 and 2)
• DMZ
• El Diablo
• Enigma
• Ex Machina
• Fables
• The Goon
• Global Frequency
• Greek Street
• Human Target
• Heavy Liquid
• Invincible
• Jonny Double
• Local
• The Losers
• Loveless
• Lucifer
• Northlanders
• Planetary
• Preacher
• The Programme
• Queen & Country
• Rocketo
• The Sandman
• Sandman Mystery Theater
• Scalped
• Scott Pilgrim
• Sleeper
• Sweet Tooth
• Transmetropolitan
• Unknown Soldier
• The Unwritten
• Y: The Last Man

currently?

Fatale, Sweet Tooth, and yeah, Saga

Morning Glories

Remi stomped this thread.

But just for good measure, let's get BB in here..

@Billy Batson

I was told Vertigo is not fully creator owned, something about DC owning 50% and the creators owning the other 50%? Is this true?

Top 5:

1) Manhattan Projects

2) The Secret History of DB Cooper

3) The Nightly News

4) The Massive

5) Saga

• Transmetropolitan
• Invincible
• Sweet Tooth
• Daytripper (limited series)
• Y: The Last Man
• The Nobody (limited series)
• DMZ
• 100 Bullets
• Kick-Ass
• Scott Pilgrim
• Who is Jake Ellis?

@Adnan: Mind MGMT is pretty good, but I love things that actually deal with relevant world problems. The Massive is about as topical as one can possibly get.

@capelesscrusader:Fair enough. I feel it's still at the stage where it could go either way, since #1 was mainly a character introduction and setting infodump. I don't really wanna judge it yet but I certainly have high hopes for it.

The Violator miniseries was good

@Remi:

Fool! You forgot the Pantheon Books such as Maus, Persepolis, Black Hole, Asterios Polyp, Habibi

and the Top Shelf Books; Lost Dogs, Essex Country, Box Office Poison, Blankets

Usagi Yojimbo, the Jason Books, Hickman's Image series (The Nightly News is one of the few that hasn't been mentioned) Criminal, A God Somewhere, Vertigo Crime and Channel Zero!
BB

@Billy Batson said:

@Remi:

Fool! You forgot the Pantheon Books such as Maus, Persepolis, Black Hole, Asterios Polyp, Habibi

and the Top Shelf Books; Lost Dogs, Essex Country, Box Office Poison, Blankets

Usagi Yojimbo, the Jason Books, Hickman's Image series (The Nightly News is one of the few that hasn't been mentioned) Criminal, A God Somewhere, Vertigo Crime and Channel Zero!
BB

Yeah Remi, you're an idiot. Forgetting effin' Usagi Yojimbo -__-

Also:

GI Joe. Only one that hasn't been mentioned to my knowledge.

Also: Hunter-Killer.

Y for last man

Ex Machina

Fables

Invincible

@Billy Batson: Aight. You win :(

Current: Saga

of all time: Walking Dead

Although I love Vertigo, I don't consider it indie. It's more like DC Lite.

@inferiorego: Most of the Vertigo series are creator-owned. So yeah. majority of it is independent.

MudMan was a fun read.

Fray by Joss Whedon - Dark Horse Comics
Locke and Key series by Joe Hill - IDW Comics

The Spider by Dynimate comics is really fantastic. Its only two issues in and the first one was seriously the best first issue I have ever read. I highly recommend it.

You already have several of the good ones. I would add Smoke and Mirrors, Dan the Unharmable, Trio, Epic Kill, Mind the Gap, Resident Alien, The Secret Service and Super Crooks.

The Red Ten, EPIC, The Standard, and Irredeemable are all very good.

Invincible.

have you read anything from zenescope? they aint your mamas fairytales, i tell you what

Y The Last Man, The Ferals, Super Crooks, Fanboys Vs. Zombies, The Spider.

On the American side:

Hellboy

Witchblade

BPRD

Conan

on the European side:

too many to list

@Billy Batson said:

@Remi:

Fool! You forgot the Pantheon Books such as Maus, Persepolis, Black Hole, Asterios Polyp, Habibi

and the Top Shelf Books; Lost Dogs, Essex Country, Box Office Poison, Blankets

Usagi Yojimbo, the Jason Books, Hickman's Image series (The Nightly News is one of the few that hasn't been mentioned) Criminal, A God Somewhere, Vertigo Crime and Channel Zero!
BB

Flaming Carrot. LOL!

Hellboy, seriously, Hellboy...

GI Joe.