Some Great AH Comic Book Titles To Check Out

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Mr_ Bondoc said:
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....
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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

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

Mr_ Bondoc said:
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...
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With a title like that, it should star zombie Nikita Khruschev...

Bruce
 
Mr_ Bondoc

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.
 

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

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

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...
 
Mr_ Bondoc

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....
 

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.
 
Mr_ Bondoc

Mr_ Bondoc

Here are a few series that you definitely have to check out:

First up is Manhattan Projects (Image Comics) by Jonathan Hickman which proposes, "What if the Manhattan Project was just a cover for a long series of super-science projects starting in 1942, all under the watchful eye of General Leslie Groves? You won't look at Robert Oppenheimer the same after this one. It comes complete with Mitsubishi ninja robots....

For more, check out:

http://www.imagecomics.com/news/165/HICKMANS-THE-MANHATTAN-PROJECTS-EXPLODES-ONTO-THE-SCENE

http://www.imagecomics.com/comics/4621/The-Manhattan-Projects-1

Second, is Hell Yeah! (Image Comics), wherein humanity is changed forever in 1991, when superheroes land in our world, vowing to change our world forever. The results are seen through the eyes of a resident of Portland, Oregon.

http://www.imagecomics.com/comics/4624/Hell-Yeah-1

http://www.imagecomics.com/previews/0031/1

Third, is the mini-series Infinite Vacation (Image Comics) which takes the idea of Sliders (FOX-TV) and combines it Apps for the i-Phone. The idea being, what happens when people are able to travel between alternate universes, as easily as people shuffle between songs on their i-Pod:

http://www.imagecomics.com/series/163/Infinite-Vacation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTaVbPZh6EY
 

Greg Grant

Marvel ran an entire series of "What If?" comics that ran from terrible (What if Wolverine was in charge of Alpha Flight = nothing interesting remotely happens) to good: '40s Cap'n America not getting thawed out until way, way later, and the '50s Cap'n America (retconned in the '80s to be a Red-baiting fascist weirdo, because... well, it would take too long to explain here) taking his place and unleashing Neo-McCarthyism that results in America becoming a neo-fascist dictatorship. Spiderman and some X-Men lead a resistance that is going nowhere fast, until the original Cap'n is thawed out. Considering (original Ca'pn) Steve Rogers is a tactical genius and the greatest leader in Marvel universe, it takes half of an issue for him to kick ass and restore the status quo by simply reciting a pledge of allegiance on national TV. I am not being ironic or sarcastic when I say Steve Rogers is that f'ing awesome and I did not question for a minute the plausibility of him being able to do any of that, because he's Steve Rogers.


Photovoltaic Array said:
Captain Confederacy is one... much of the plot didn't turn out the way I expected it to do.

It can be read here: http://captainconfederacy.blogspot.com/
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That one was a freaking mess of strange. But is interesting as an example of the South Wins = Apartheid Confederacy genre that was somewhat sorta prevalent in the late '70s to '80s ACW AH.

DJC said:
There's a rather neat trilogy of AH Star Wars comic books called Star Wars Infinities that I would definitely recommend. The one for "A New Hope" is the best; the POD is Luke's failure to destroy the first Death Star.
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I read those and they were very curious and enjoyable.
 
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