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Books like New X-Men, Vol. 1 : E Is for Extinction

12 books with a reading profile close to New X-Men, Vol. 1 : E Is for Extinction by Grant Morrison. Escapist; a moderate read.

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.
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.
3

Snow Crash

by Neal Stephenson

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.
4

Coyote Blue

by Christopher Moore

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.
5

Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm

by Bill Willingham

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

In this installment, the focus shifts from the urban Fabletown to "The Farm," an upstate New York sanctuary for non-human fables like the Three Pigs, Shere Khan, and Goldilocks.
6

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.
7

The First Law Trilogy

by Joe Abercrombie

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

Logen Ninefingers, a northern warrior weary of battle, journeys south to Join the Union at the request of the magus Bayaz.
8

Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening

by Marjorie M. Liu

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

Maika Halfwolf is a teenage survivor of a genocidal war between the feline-like Arcanics and the Cumaea, an order of sorceresses who consume Arcanics to fuel their magic.
9

The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas

by Gerard Way

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

The story follows the fractured Hargreeves siblings as they navigate the aftermath of the apocalypse they narrowly avoided.
10

Attack on Titan, Vol. 1

by Hajime Isayama

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

The narrative begins inside a walled civilization where the last remnants of humanity hide from Titans, towering humanoid creatures that consume people without apparent reason.
11

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2: Cycles

by Brian K. Vaughan

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

Yorick Brown and his capuchin monkey, Ampersand, travel across a desolate United States as the only two survivors of a global plague that killed every creature with a Y chromosome.
12

Hogfather

by Terry Pratchett

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

On the night of Hogswatch, the Discworld’s version of Santa Claus disappears because the Auditors of Reality have hired an assassin named Teatime to eliminate him.

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