Books like Daredevil: Born Again
12 books with a reading profile close to Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller. Escapist; a moderate read.
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1
Kingdom Come
by Mark Waid
entertainment, narrative
Set in a future where a new generation of metahumans executes criminals without trial, Kingdom Come follows an aging Pastor Norman McCay and a weary Superman.
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2
Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas (Comics)
by Garth Ennis
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Jesse Custer, a disillusioned Texas preacher, becomes the accidental host to Genesis, a supernatural entity born from the illegal union of an angel and a demon.
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3
Coyote Blue
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Samson Hunts Alone left the Crow reservation fifteen years ago, reinventing himself as blond-haired insurance salesman Samson Greene in Santa Barbara.
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4
Night Shift
by Stephen King
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Night Shift is a collection of twenty short stories that showcase the physicalization of mundane fears into lethal threats.
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Insomnia
by Stephen King
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Set in Derry, Maine, the story follows Ralph Roberts, an elderly widower suffering from worsening sleeplessness.
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6
The Familiar
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Set in the Spanish Golden Age, the story follows Luzia Cotado, a scullery maid who uses remnants of prohibited Sephardic magic to ease her daily toil.
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7
The Emperor's Soul
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Shai is a Forger, a practitioner of magic who can rewrite an object’s history to alter its physical form.
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8
Wolverine: Old Man Logan
by Mark Millar
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
In a dystopian future, the United States has been carved into territories ruled by supervillains like the Abomination, Magneto, and the Red Skull.
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9
Snow Crash
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
In a near-future Los Angeles partitioned into sovereign corporate franchises, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizzas for the Mafia and hacks within the Metaverse, a three-dimensional virtual reality landscape he helped build.
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10
Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1: Dog and Chainsaw
Also escapist · entertainment, experimental
Denji is a teenager so poor that he has sold his organs and works as a devil hunter, paying off his dead father's debts to the yakuza with the help of his pet, Pochita, a small chainsaw devil.
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11
The Fisherman
by John Langan
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Widowers Abe and Dan attempt to manage their grief through marathon fishing trips in upstate New York.
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12
Friday
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Friday follows the life of Friday Jones, an "artificial person" engineered with enhanced speed, intelligence, and physical durability.
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