First again! Yeahhhhhhh thanks Omar. This is awesome. To me you are one of the most knowledgeable person in terms of comic (at least on social media) Definitely gonna refer to your recommendation for my next purchase 😁

The Last Man 00:45 Big Damn Sin City 2:40 Locke and Key 4:25 Criminal 6:40 Hellboy 8:44 Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck 11:12 Daytripper 13:50 Lazarus 15:55 Strangers in Paradise 18:02 Sandman 20:33

Y The Last Man is what really pulled me into the world of comics. Kamala Khan got my interest, Saga was great, and Y The Last Man pulled me to the place I am now!

Daytripper was the 2nd comic book that i read in my life. Until today i haven't found a book that moves me in that way. Every single comic book that i read is nonless compared to that comic book. I should have read it after reading some other comics, because now i can't read the same way. Everyone should read daytripper!

Amazing Collection! Tons of talented illustrators and artists. Thank you so much for this upload ⬆️

Great list, Transmetropolitan is a must for me and some osamu tezuka and yoshiro tatsumi but some great recommendations and things that I have meant to pick up for a while! Super happy to see Daytripper on your list too as it is one of the most philosophical and powerful books I have read and is just beautiful to boot!

I am just now seeing these two videos but I love all the choices and will definitely check them all out. Your passion for this is beautiful and your description of strangers in paradise sounds like something I definitely need right now in my life

Very good top 20, I have them all but Invisibles and Strangers in Paradise. I look forward to seeing your manga list.

Great list, man! It was fun watching you go through all of these.

Good list man. I'll definitely be asking for a couple of those for Christmas. I've got Lazarus already so am probably going to give that another read. One book I would maybe put on the list my self is the walking dead.

the son of Steven King ... wow yr vids are HIGH CLASS bro!!

So I’ve been watching a lot of “best of” non superhero comic book videos and I have to say your picks are the best I’ve seen, hands down.

Great video. Lazarus is a great pick, very underrated book. Lazarus has a lot of well written characters so does East of West, both great books in their own right. Great to see Criminal by Ed Brubaker on the list, it was my first indie comic I picked up years ago when it first came out. I was reading Daredevil and Iron Fist by Brubaker in single issues when they were coming out and I picked up the Criminal deluxe edition because of Brubaker's writing. I found your channel because I love the X-men and I saw your X-men omnibus collection video. Do more indie videos in the future. Horror comics would be cool, especially since Halloween is around the corner. Do Eerie comics, I never read those before. You sold me on Strangers in Paradise. Also, get Gem Mint Collectibles on Omnibros, that would be awesome.

Watched both parts and you had some great picks, several of which would be in my top 20 too (Invisibles, Preacher, Y the Last Man. Saga, Criminal, Lazarus, Fables). I haven't read Strangers in Paradise or any of Don Rosa's Disney comics, but I'm definitely interested in checking them out now. My top twenty would probably have a few that yours didn't, like The Filth by Grant Morrison and Chris Weston, From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, Stray Bullets by David Lapham, Lucifer by Mike Carey and Peter Gross and Dean Ormston, and East of West by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta.

Yooo do a top 10 about unique and most creative stories , like Doom Patrol Morrison's run and stuff!!!

Alright, you sold me on Donald Duck, I just ordered volume 1 of the Don Rosa run.

Great list! You now have a new subscriber in me haha. I honestly think that about 16 of your picks would be in my top 20 too. I would definitely have had fatale over criminal though and southern bastards would’ve been in there somewhere!

I hear Aeris / Aerith's theme playing. :) Great videos man.

Great list and I really enjoyed your dialogue about them.

Locke & Key collection is the same one I have too and that is a great series bro. Criminal is on my to do list gotta hunt down vol 1 which is close if not already OOP. Don Rosa material just takes me back still collecting those library editions. I enjoy Absolute DayTripper on Sundays it just works with coffee by my side like Bras if possible. Sandman is just epic what can I say the Absolutes are now my friends.

I have to say thanks for this! I'm new to comics, apart from light reading in my younger pre-teen years, but I'm getting back into them now thanks to Star Wars and kind fell hard into comics, but superheroes dont really interest me all that much. So these recommendations are perfect!

I think I need Lock & Key-- but i want that box set-- DAMN thats SWEET- yr collection is so AMAZING!!

Great Video Omar, you know this is my favorite types of comics.. now i have to spend more money.. IST should give you a cut ;)

Great list, added a lot of these books to my wishlist :) I think one book you could've added would be From Hell by Alan Moore

Dude! Awesome collection! My favorite graphic novel is also my my favorite book period and that's The Crow by James O'Barr. If you've never read it i highly, highly suggest it. And if you've seen the movie and didn't like it you probably won't like the graphic novel but vice versa. It's better than the movie IMO.

The sixth gun is so good. Probably my all time favorite comic

I just came from part one of the video. I never got a notification that you left a comment. I may be in the minority but I finished Y the last Man and just felt meh. I just seem to lose interest when I read anything of his. I wanted to like this and even went out to pick up the collected trades but ended up giving them to a friend after I was done. I still have a few of Brubakers Image works I need to read but I would have chosen Sleeper instead of Criminal just because that was the start of the Brubaker/Phillips collaboration. Daytripper.....Where do I even start. That hit me so much personally. You already know how I feel about Lazarus! SiP is so good!I will say at times it feels like I'm in a soap opera when I read it but it made me see there were comic books out there that weren't superheroes. I I love that Terry Moore even brought back SiP back for an anniversary that has a collected first tpb coming or already out.Sin City and Sandman were books I read back in my days in Art College I haven't read them in a while because I purged a lot of my collection years ago but My nostalgia may have me one day wanting to revisit these series. Locke and Key and Uncle Scrooge and Donald are the only two I have never gotten to read yet but want to. The only books I would have added were Scalped-Jason Aaron, Punk Rock Jesus-Sean Gordon Murphy, and Midnight Nation-JMS/Gary Frank. Midnight Nation is less Daytripper with a bunch of Supernatural sprinkled in. You appreciate it more when you read his afterward. and the deluxe hc looks to be available at IST still;) I would have added Sweet Tooth too but that book is just a personal favourite of mine and know how you feel about Lemire's art. This is just a big run-on sentence but I was commenting as you listed books..lol

I own most of these and super agree with your choices, need to get Lazarus, Criminal and the Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck books (happy these are available in my country in Amazon)

Damn, I watched it yesterday but didn't comment xD! Half of your top 20 are titles that I want to have!!! My Saga is not even scanned...u_u.. anyway... jaja! Great video!!! Like always!!

Just getting into comics, some of the "super hero" comics appeal to me, but I mainly like this stuff -- the unconventional comics. Really glad I found this channel, I have already purchased some of your reccomendations! Cheers mate

Thanks for the recommendations. Im thinking the Mause, Lazarus, and Day tripper sound like books id enjoy. One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is "The Crow." I loved the movie as well, but the artwork in the crow is so beautiful. And the story is so beautifully told in my opinion.

Hellboy what can I say truly one of Mike mignola's masterpiece. I can't say anymore because it's just that good it's so good to read that story in the entire body of the body of work that was achieved over the long life span of so many years I personally have no problem in my eyes is a perfect story a perfect character old well fleshed out character this is just awesome

Awesome vid buddy! But for real, no Essex County? I know you don't like Lemires art but wow, what a book.

I do agree there SimCity was deafening experience you had to read to really feel how great this body of work that Frank Miller wrote intro cuz the movie does it justice but doesn't really do it fully Justice and what the the graphic novel die. Sin City was definitely hard-hitting breathtaking and Visually stunning from accretive stamp are you just amazing this was a great

Cool picks, def gonna check out some. Can't believe no East of West! 😯🙁

Sandman was a great choice. Easily my fav comic ever. You showed my second fav as well and I'm very interested in Daytripper. Might pick it up today. My list would be: Sandman East of West Locke and Key Transmetropolitan Saga (book 1, book 2 made me drop the series) Crossed (specifically book 3) I hate fairyland Rat Queens Colder (I loved the way they portrayed insanity) Sky.Doll (look up the art you will most likely buy it right away)

I am reading now Watchmen and its my first graphic novel. I discovered you and your videos are so fun to watch and of course i will buy some of them that you suggested. Thanks

Great video. We have similar tastes! Y: The Last Man, Locke & Key and Sin City are all masterpieces! I really want to collect Hellboy, but that is a lot of hardcovers to track down!

Dave Cooper's Crumple would be my recommendation. The artwork is incredible. Very underrated.

OMG dude you're awesome. All your picks are on my list, but I was getting super anxious when you got to number 19 and Sandman still wasn't up. I was poised over my keyboard ready to be like what?! what? What??!?. Lol! But you saved the best for last. Phew. You now have my full trust for recommendations :-)

Could not put down Locke & Key. Great list of 20!!!!

Sandman is definitely an experience. I love death in it, and many of the characters leave a lasting impact. The man he meets in a tavern with his sister, his raven... This is the one series that I will forever hold in my heart. I love Sandman and Niel Gaiman.

Yo bro, time to do the second 20 batch! You said it was very hard to pick just 20 plus in these years i bet you read lots of new ones that you like. Edit : I'm 43 and just last year started to get hooked by comics and graphic novels, you have been the guru that introduced me to this world last months so your recommendations are always highly appreciated.

Awesome list! I'm definitely going to look into a few of these titles. Did you ever check out any CrossGen series?

Hi Omar! I have just re-watched your 2 video's of your favourite non super hero graphic novels and you have covered what I consider to be the greatest books in this format ever published! However, I tend to look at a lot of obscure, independent or small publisher's books which do this genre justice also! Through the years, along with the books you have covered, I have come across a few really fab graphic novels I thought I would mention to you. Maybe you will wanna check em out for yourself! These are my recommendations of non super hero books, STRANGEHAVEN by Gary Spencer Millidge. GRANDVILLE by Brian Talbot. A Distant Neighbourhood by Jiro Taniguchi, HICKSVILLE by Dylan Horrocks & It's a Good Life, if you Don't Weaken by SETH. I think you would absolutely love these suggestions. Just thought I would mention these classics! I was kinda hoping that PLANETARY by Warren Ellis would have made your list as that was one of my favourites. Btw........ any updates on the release date of the SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE Omnibus yet Omar?

I want them all! Haha big fan Omar!

well i guess ill finally pick up Daytripper now

Thanks for the recommendations. Can you do the same for Mangas?

I think you should read the plants vs zombies comics by dark horse. It is quite funny and awesome . one of my favourite series of all time .they are available in hardcovers but they are very thin

After giving it more thought I am gonna order the life and times of scrooge mcduck. Its almost half off on amazon right now for the box set so its to good of a deal to pass up. How many donald duck and uncle scrooge volumes are there? There seem to be a bunch. Are they still in print?

Surprised Goon didn't make it. and really you could of added any of Remender's books, Deadly Class,Black Science,Low,Fear Agent,Doll and Creature,Red Sea... i could go on forever. He's so good,I'm finally finishing up the Low HC(issues 1-15) i am patiently waiting for this series to return.

Y: The Last Man was my 1st real comic book that i LOVED

Bone by Jeff Smith. Pretty much the first non superhero comic (maybe aside from Tintin). Bought the B&W complete edition when I was 11, that book came with me through many family road trips and I still reread it to this day.

Everything you showed looked like a great suggestion and there were many I don't have, so I'll be on the lookout for those. I'd mention a few you didn't: Xenozoic Tales by Mark Schultz, American Splendor by Harvey Pekar, Scout, Grim Jack, by Tim Truman, Black Dragon by John Bolton, Concrete by Paul Chadwick although that might be considered a super hero title, Kings in Disguise by James Vance, which Alan Moore said was an amazing title, Moonshadow, a coming of age story, Eightball by Daniel Clowes, Yummy Fur, Fuck, & I Never Liked You, and most anything by Chester Brown, I prefer his auto bio stuff, Clyde Fans and Palookaville by Seth, Peepshow by Joe Matt, Brat Pack & The One by Rick Veitch, Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruise, The Tower by Schuiten & Peeters, and The 6 Voyages of Lone Sloane. I'd like to see your manga video.

Ive been interested in daytripper for awhile just ordered the tpb but i see the absolute is coming out soon think it will be worth it?

Now there is my dream collection.

Hey, hey! My man! Great picks to finish off your list, Omar! Many great choices. I predicted "Sandman" had to be on the list somewhere. It's too iconic NOT to include. That, and "Y, The Last Man". Brian K. Vaughan is the MAN! (No pun intended!) But, since you suggested it at the end of the video, here's some titles I would have included. I'll be curious to see if you've read any of these: 1. "BMW: The Hire" : This was a limited series comic that was collected into a trade. It's a follow-up to a series of short films that BMW did to advertise their latest line of vehicles back in 2001. Each film was by a famous director, such as Tony Scott, John Woo, John Frankenheimer, Guy Ritchie and others. And they all featured the same character, a driver for hire played by Clive Owen. This comic was a new series of stories about the same character. 2. "Get Jiro!" : This was a graphic novel written by the late Anthony Bourdain! It takes place in a future Los Angeles where cooks and chefs have become the biggest crime lords to drive the economy. It's the story of a sushi chef named Jiro who is caught in the middle of two warring factions: The Internationalists, who collect food from all over the world, for the highest paying elite and the Vertical Farmers, who focus on only macrobiotic, organic and vegetarian dishes. It's a searing black satire on foodie culture, well written and Langdon Foss's illustrations are so memorable! 3. "The Red Star": Christian Gossett, who came up with concepts for Lucasfilm such as the double-bladed lightsaber that Darth Maul used, is the writer of this series about an alternate sci-fi series about the Russian Red Army. VERY well written! 4. "King": Ho Che Anderson wrote and illustrated this 3-part (later collected into an ultimate edition) bio-comic about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The writing alone for this comic is worth it. And the illustrations feature a variety of styles such as photo imagery, wood cuts, black and white drawings, silk-screening, all of it to tell a very critical and balanced look at the life of the civil rights leader. It showed that he was both a brilliant and flawed man at the same time. Plus, it's very well researched. I cannot recommend this one enough. 5. Dude, how could you not include "DMZ" by Brian Wood? 6. "Zahra's Paradise": This is a story that is centered around the protests of the 2009 presidential election in the Islamic Republic of Iran. A mother is looking for her missing son, and during the search learns more about him as a revolutionary. It's also a look into the socio-political culture of the country at the time, and it's a pretty damning indictment of the Iranian government. Again, highly recommended. Hope this gives more food for thought! Again, awesome show, my brother!

I would have added eastman and laird's TMNT but you know it's your list I'm not salty I promise

Wonderful list. I would have put Blankets and Bone.

Hi Omar! About Locke & Key, would you suggest the 3 master editions or the slipcase? (aside from the fact that you prefer over-sized art). Also is the HC Slipcase still available? I can only find the TBP slipcase edition. Thanks!

I would put the eltingville club by evan dorkin as well as david boring and eightball by david clowes on my list. Also, I'd say Hellboy is definitely a superhero.

Did you ever consider DMZ for your list?

Just recently got into graphic novels and so far from what I have read here's my list. - the boys - y the last man - big sin city - transmetropolitan That's all I have read so far but have a few more books on the shelf.

the goon , lock and key, cerebus, elfquest, east of west, sandman, american vampire,

So Sandman kept you reading comics instead of giving up on them? Was there a stage in life where you started to feel exhausted from comics? Or maybe early on, feel like maybe they wernt for you?

I grew up on non-super hero comics in the 80s because I am British and we have a weekly anthology comic called 2000AD which has some of the greatest graphical stories ever told and many of the European writers and artists you love cut their teeth on 2000AD. Here is a list of some of the greatest comics which can be found in collected editions from this publication. First probably the best thing Alan Moore ever wrote is little known and sadly incomplete. The Ballad of Halo Jones with some jaw dropping art by Ian Gibson. The best thing 2000AD is known for outside the UK is old stone face himself Judge Dredd. Because he ages in real time he is in his late 60s and has been in almost every issue since 1977 there is a lot stories and I will list some of my favourites.- His first epic Dredd story was Block Mania and Apocalypse War which ran 1981/82 and still holds up today, especially Block Mania. Everyone’s recommendation as an intro to Judge Dredd is ‘America’ which I like but I’m not as fond as others about. I think there is nothing better to get in to a story about law and order than a procedural and I personally think the best jumping off point in to the world of Dredd is ‘The Pit’ My favourite character from the world of Dredd is the anti-establishment graffiti artist who went on to become the world’s greatest sky surfer, Chopper and my favourite chopper story is Song of the surfer. The art is phenomenal and the story is pure tragedy. Moving away from the future to the ancient past we have Slaine and the story The horned God. In this work Simon Bisley produced the Sistene Chapel of comic book art and I challenge anyone to disagree. One of my favourite series in 2000AD is Bad Company. A trippy, hard edged journey into a future interpretation of the Vietnam War. Finally I recommend Button Man, only volumes 1-3 though. Hard as nails and British as hell. Honourable mention goes to Nemesis the warlock which has just been great throughout its history and I cannot pick a one story above any other. All you need to know is the hero is like the devil and the villains are the humans.

Which of these 20 would be appropriate for kids 12 and under?

I really don't have years and years of experience, but I'd have to put "Descender," "The Massive," "Manifest Destiny," "East of West," and classic "Archie" up as contenders for a top non-superhero comics list.

Bone

One thing that always confuses me a bit- why give the name of a graphic novel to a collecfed series or a trade? Surely graphic novel implies a one off work that runs for a specific number of pages, which even though might be arranged in chapters just as a prose novel, is conceptualized and produced with the single tome format in mind.

How come you didn't add SCALPED? :O

Locke and key is still my absolute favorite comic

Local is a great graphic novel as well.

I know this is 2 years ago, but How isn’t Bone in this list?? I mean it’s a very good top 20 but it is impossible not to have Bone in it. Please replace somethin for Bone asap (for my money in place of Preacher or Invisibles)

Is the Scrooge books for kids? Or can i enjoy it as an adult

There's like ten or more of those scrooge hardcovers. They look really nice but that's a big investment.

"......apple doesn't fall far from tree" More like demon in kings mind has taken new mind😂😂😂

Is absolute y the last man version worth it?

Saga would have been on list for sure

Do I hear final fantasy piano music in the background playing?

I can't find sin city anywhere. I'm pretty sure it's out of print.

No V for Vendetta or From Hell?

One thing I'd put on this list are the Star Wars Marvel comics. Not the really old ones, the newer ones.

the one thing that makes from reading american comics more is that I dislike the coloring trend... thats it

Y the last man was a very good Sarah I really enjoyed it but there's some things I had problem. And it was just like a Nick pic about the ending about of the series I just felt like that ending to the series was very rushed you know I still liked it it's like for me how I feel about Game of Thrones I felt like Game of Thrones ending to the series was rushed even though I still enjoyed it but I rather you give me enough time to get to that destination and let the ending filth satisfying and fulfillment it's like the same thing about Game of Thrones even though that's I mean I enjoyed the ending but I felt like it was rushed to an extent and that's why I feel about why the last man and another problem I just I love the lead character in the series but he would do the most dumbest things when he was told not to do the dumb things. You know when the special agent told him not to do this he would do one thing I keep on forgetting the character's name in the book that's my bad I got to look back it's been awhile since I've read that series I got to go back and read it again it's been a long time but you would just do some things that were like life-risking it's like you're the last man dude you need to chill out and up until we got the desert point that he wasn't. He can't be taking those types of risks. I mean it was enjoyable to read it and I was like also part of his charm it's like a 50/50 thing with the deleting character that's those are probably the two problems I had really with the series but I don't know it was like definitely a 9.5 on my but it was it was damn near close at 10 but it was just those problems I really had with the series that I still really enjoyed it I thought that this was up there. But it had those certain problems in my book that kept it from me perfect masterpiece but still an amazing great body of work and I have no problems with the artwork. It's beautiful

Great job on this list. Personally, I don't read too many graphic novels, though the most provocative one I've read recently is Come Again by Nate Powell. Actually, I was hoping you could help me identify this one graphic novel I skimmed a few years back. I've been obsessed with finding it after all this time, but it's eluded all my attempts to look it up online. The thing is, I don't remember it's name, author, or publication date; all I have is a vague memory of the plot. Without spoiling it too much (I heard you hate spoilers), here's the premise: The protagonist is a seemly ordinary family man with a mustache whose only son vanishes without a trace at a carnival. Years later, he seems to be only one in his family to have moved on, though he seems to cope by interacting with imaginary characters. Through a series of events, he's thrown into this large pit and he and his daughter find themselves in some sort of fantasy world. One other element I remember is that the son's "disappearance" has something to do with developing a telepathic connection to a mammoth. Does that sound familiar to you or anyone else? I'll owe you big time if you can help me.

No Transformers?

Where can I get the Damn Big Sin City???

I need to make a list

Updated list?

Holy crap, is The Big Damn even readable? It’s thick AF

You didint mention the walking dead

Scalped missing

The goon is not in your top 20! 😱

Amazing list but, seriously...The Walking Dead wasn't on there!!!

Exit light...

Dang no walking dead 😔✌🏻

Are u Justin long

Now Neil Gaiman Sandman I got to say I don't know how to say this but I want to stay. The first half of the series was phenomenal for me. Being that said and you might disagree I felt like the other half of the series could have done better the ending of how it all wrapped up I thought Lucifer by Mike Carey was when he had his serious spending out of the events of what happened with Sam man I thought that was done a lot better even though Sam it kind of sets that up to an extent but I just felt like the end of Sandman that series that in half could have been done way better I mean it was a great work but it just felt like getting just a little rush still felt rough even way to add several years gets away and it was done right to get to that Ending by just it felt like a okay ending it was an extraordinary truly extraordinary ending to this great character that was Morpheus

not a big fan of strangers in paradise