Some Great AH Comic Book Titles To Check Out

[Zyzzyva]

Originally Posted by Mr_ Bondoc

A) Pax Romana (Image Comics)- Classic ISOT story wherein the Vatican City sends an elite group of mercenaries, armed with modern military tactics and technology, to the age of Emperor Constantine. Their job is to try and unify the planet in a religious sense. It even comes with a detailed ATL that explains the full ramifications....

Pretty cool, even if Pius was a hubristic maniac (and there doesn't seem to be any ways for the second group mentioned at the end to end up in the same universe).

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Catch the new zombie apocalypse mini-series:

We Will Bury You!!! (IDW Comics)- A comet passing by the planet Earth in 1927, on the day of the executions of the Sacco & Vanzetti Trail take place, causes the dead to rise from the grave, causing all sorts of mayhem and damage throughout Jazz Age America. By the creators behind 30 Days of Night, this is a series that should prove interesting...

[B_Munro]

Originally Posted by Mr_ Bondoc

Catch the new zombie apocalypse mini-series:

We Will Bury You!!! (IDW Comics)- A comet passing by the planet Earth in 1927, on the day of the executions of the Sacco & Vanzetti Trail take place, causes the dead to rise from the grave, causing all sorts of mayhem and damage throughout Jazz Age America. By the creators behind 30 Days of Night, this is a series that should prove interesting...

With a title like that, it should star zombie Nikita Khruschev...

Bruce

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Originally Posted by B_Munro

With a title like that, it should star zombie Nikita Khruschev...

Bruce

Considering that the first issue has just come out in the mini-series, I wouldn't be surprised if they slip that idea into the story in the near future...

[modelcitizen]

Originally Posted by New Yorker

There was D Day +1 about the aftermath of a nuclear war.

I'm having difficulty finding anything about it on google. Are there any bits of info about author, additional title words, etc?

[Mr_ Bondoc]

On new mini-series introduces a new ATL for the DC multiverse:

First Wave (DC Comics)- A new ATL wherein its 2010, spaceflight hasn't been achieved yet, but the world is an Art-Deco dream (complete with fedoras, tommy-guns, and blimps). This is a world wherein Doc Savage, Batman, the Spirit, the Avenger, Black Hawk, and Black Canary all exist in a world without any super-powered heroes. To add to the mystery of the ATL, the world apparently suffered a major world war that ended only in 2007.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

I just finished reading Pax Romana and would recommend grabbing a copy if you can. In brief, it's a four-issue series about a group of soldiers/engineers/etc. sent back to Constantine-era Europe by a future Vatican to reshape the world into a Catholic utopia. There are differences among the people sent back to do this, and all sorts of things happen.

Since it's a comic series, you don't get much in the way of detail, but it's an interesting world created.

[Mark 4 Morrel Barrel]

I know it was suppose to take place in modern times but would some people considr Jericho AH yet?

[xt828]

Originally Posted by Guns_of_Freedom

I know it was suppose to take place in modern times but would some people considr Jericho AH yet?

As in the short-lived TV series about nukes going off in the US?

[Mark 4 Morrel Barrel]

Originally Posted by xt828

As in the short-lived TV series that was awsome and wrongly taken off the air for BS reasons about nukes going off in the US?

Yeah that season 3 is comic book. Tensions are growing between the ASA and USA (+Texas)

[ah-sue]

IMHO, any story featuring a human with super powers and set in any time up to the present is, de facto, alternate history - as there has never been any such person in OTL, has there? Furthermore, I .......... oh, hold on, emergency in Fawcett City, have to fly ......... Shazam!

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Check out:

Megas (Virgin Comics)- POD 1492; The idea is that America is founded by an aristocracy composed of witches and warlocks, dubbed "Megas". The comic covers an assassination and political intrigue at the White Palace (located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue) after one of the princes seemingly commits suicide in a brothel.

If you like manga, check out:

Gunparade March (ADV Manga)- POD 1945; which has Earth invaded by a series of demonic creatures, starting in 1945. 54 years later, still fighting the demonic creatures, humanity's only hope lies in the construction of mecha called "Humanoid Walking Tanks" (HWT). The anime shows more of the global scope of the damage.

[Mr_ Bondoc]

One ATL mini-series that you have to check out right now is:


S.H.I.E.L.D. (Marvel Comics) by Jonathan Hickman & Dustin Weaver, which has a secret society that involves Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, flying suits, Galactus, and clockwork steampunk . There is even a large city hidden underneath Rome. Although it doesn't feature Nick Fury, it is so original that you forget that little detail by the time you have gotten halfway through the comic...

[Readman]

Red Son was wicked I would recommend it to any Superman fan

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Definitely check out the graphic novel collection of Zero Killer (Dark Horse Comics). This is a alternate history post-apocalyptic world, developed by the guys who created Rex Mundi. The series is a must for anyone who loved The Warriors or Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. The initial POD is set in 1945, and in the collected tradeback/graphic novel, a nifty timeline is provided which goes to great lengths to detail the world and environment....

[Timmy811]

Sakura Wars - Steampunk mecha fight demons in 1920s Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakura_Wars#Setting

[NoOneFamous]

I am surprised that no one has mentioned the Luftwaffe 1946 comic series

[SirAshfordFanrico]

I enjoyed Storming Paradise, where a miscalculation prevents America from being the first to utilize the A-Bomb, thus the full-scale invasion of Japan commences.

Kinda wish we'd get a follow-up to it, showing the fallout from the ending.