 | Daredevil Legends: Born Again v. 2 by Frank Miller
Buy used from: £4.55 The fall and rise, not of DareDevil, but of a Matt Murdock pushed to (and beyond) the brink of madness. "I have shown him - a man without hope is a man without fear."
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 | Alias: v. 1 by Brian Michael Bendis
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £7.75 How a person with powers rejects the "tights and capes" lifestyle - and then tries to live a "normal" life. You can the girl out of the Avengers, but you can't take the Avengers out of the girl.
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 | Punisher MAX: In the Beginning v. 1 by Garth Ennis
Buy new: £6.19 / Used from: £4.54 This fixes the previous problem with the Punisher - if he's to be taken seriously, then he should be more of a maniac. Less spandex, more fatigues - more guns, less qualms about inflicting punishment.
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 | Batman: Year One (Batman (DC Comics Paperback)) by David Mazzucchelli
Buy used from: £11.89 How Wayne & Gordon established their delicate entente. One outside the law but working for justice - the other a policeman who's willing to push the envelope of the law if required to get results.
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 | Swamp Thing: Love and Death by Alan Moore
Buy used from: £7.24 So - you die, come back to life made out of branches and moss, are hugely powerful, fall in love with one of your friends wives, and then she dies. Would you travel to Hell to save her? Might as well.
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 | The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes (The Sandman) by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £5.99 An ancient conceit of giving human traits a personification turns into a mesmerising psychodrama that works on many levels. Layered into a mystical and satisfying gateaux of any-goodness.
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 | The Boys: The Name of the Game v. 1 by Garth Ennis
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £4.00 Answers the question "Who watches the watchmen?". A borderline psychotic bunch of vicious lunatics, that's who, with a fixed end goal, but a morally ambivalent road map of how to get there.
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 | Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters (Green Arrow (Graphic Novels)) by Mike Grell
Buy used from: £22.94 A bow and arrow are essentially a weapon of war. When a shocking event tilts his world off it's axis, Oliver Queen decides that "an eye for an eye" sounds good to him, and he's equipped for the job.
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 | Human Diastrophism: A Love Rockets Book (Love & Rockets) by Gilbert Hernandez
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £8.71 A mexican village has to deal with serial killers, monkey infestations, a plague-like pandemic, imprisonment, fidelity, unexpected paternity and suicide. An utterly bewitching and entrancing vignette.
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 | 2000 AD Presents Zenith Phase 1 (Zenith) by Grant Morrison
A glorious deconstruction of the superhero paradigm. Imagine Russell Brand as Superman, forming the JLB with Janet Street-Porter, John Major and Oliver Reed. And then fighting ultra-Nazis. Cool.
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 | Captain America Omnibus: v. 1 by Ed Brubaker
Buy new: £37.66 / Used from: £45.98 The Manchurian Candidate/Bourne Identity set in the Marvel Universe. Gritty, street level drama. Eschews the cosmic, and finishes on a gut wrenching emotional shock. Essential.
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