Favorite lesser-known comics

Today, a group of comics bloggers has gotten together to recommend lesser-known gems of the comics world. Comics are more than Brightest Day and Heroic Age, and you just might want to...read this too!

• Adam Strange at It's A Dan's World
  
• American Vampire at Doom Patrol
  
• Astro City at Speed Force
  
• Booster Gold and Zatanna at Red Tornado's Path
  
• Essential Man-Thing at Firestorm Fan
  
• Forgetless at Girls Gone Geek
  
• Franklin Richards digests at Once Upon a Geek
  
• Glamourpuss at Being Carter Hall
  
• Peter David's Hulk at Fortress of Baileytude
  
• Jonah Hex at Boosterrific
  
• Scott Pilgrim at Toyriffic
  
• Son of Tomahawk and Thor the Mighty Avenger at Aquaman Shrine
  
• Spelljammer at HeroPress
  
• Spire Christian Comics: In His Steps at Mail It To Team-Up
  
• Strange Science Fantasy at Siskoid's Blog of Geekery
  
• R.E.B.E.L.S. at Indigo Tribe
  
• The Unwritten at K-Squared Ramblings
  
• Welcome to Tranquility at Girls Gone Geek
  

What are some of your favorite lesser-known (or at least lesser-read) comics?

Most of these are still very mainstream.

I can't really think of any lesser know comics that I read. The only two that come to mind are Spider-Girl and The Irredeemable Ant-Man, and I wouldn't even call those lesser known, they just didn't sell well.

Elephantmen

Read it!

There's probably a few lesser know books for me every now and then but nothing super unknown. I know there are a ton of books that don't get recognition but I'm sorry I don't want to have to buy even more books and get sucked into more series, I'm content with my monthly comics to a point where what I normally get entertains me enough that I don't seek more stuff to read at this point.

Besides that, um Tales of TMNT and TMNT vol 4 were good books. Yes, the TMNT are popular but the books sold jack-shit and they were really good.

Who is this "Scott Pilgrim" that you speak of?

Anything I've written a Hidden Gem about. We have a main site too, you know.

Yeah, most of those are pretty out in open.

It is kind of subjective. There's comic fans out there that probably don't know that there's a vast amount of non-superhero titles.

Kelson wrote:
What are some of your favorite lesser-known (or at least lesser-read) comics?

Current stuff:
The Perhapanauts
I Zombie

Everything else I get may seem well known. Unwritten is critically acclaimed, so I'm not sure if that should've been listed. But, again, subjective.

Way too many back-issues to list, but here's some gems, IMO:
User (Vertigo)
Luna Bros.: Girls (Image)
Ultra (Image)
Heavy Liquid (Vertigo)
Black Hole (Kitchen Sink/Fantagraphics)

I like many more, but I like them and am not sure if I can make a general must-read for everyone else.

Yeah, maybe "less popular" would have been a better description than "lesser-known."

On the other hand, this morning I got a comment from someone who has been reading comics forever, but had never heard of The Unwritten.

Once you step outside of the big names at Marvel and DC, the number of people actually reading stuff goes *way* down.

I just did a review of Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities and the Ghastly Fiend of London.

I like a lot of lesser known books. Sometimes they turn into hits, like Chew.

I can't recommend Terry Moore's Echo enough but you really need to pick it up from the beginning if you're going to check it out.

Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children by Piranha Press. you can probably find them all in quarter bins.

Nextwave anyone? http://panelsonpages.com/?p=28803

Sorrow written by Rick Remender and Seth Peck in 2007. It was a limited series 1-4.