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Books like The Boys, Volume 1: The Name of the Game

12 books with a reading profile close to The Boys, Volume 1: The Name of the Game by Garth Ennis. Practical, outward-looking, growth-minded and escapist; an easy read.

1

Island of the Sequined Love Nun

by Christopher Moore

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative

Tucker Case, a disgraced pilot who crashed a pink jet into the Vatican, finds himself flying for a questionable missionary organization in Micronesia.
2

Wolverine: Old Man Logan

by Mark Millar

Also practical and 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.
3

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.
4

House of M

by Brian Michael Bendis

Also outward-looking and growth-minded · entertainment, narrative

Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, suffers a psychological breakdown that threatens the fabric of reality.
5

Civil War: A Marvel Comics Event (Comic)

by Mark Millar

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative

Following a catastrophic explosion in Stamford caused by a battle between the New Warriors and Nitro, the United States government passes the Superhuman Registration Act.
6

Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye

by Frank Miller

Also outward-looking and growth-minded · entertainment, narrative

Marv is a massive, scarred brawler who wakes up in a cheap hotel to find Goldie, the beautiful woman he just spent the night with, murdered beside him.
7

Paper Girls, Volume 2

by Brian K. Vaughan

Also practical and escapist · entertainment, narrative

After being thrust through a rift in time, 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls KJ, Mac, and Tiff land in 2016 Cleveland.
8

Batman: The Man Who Laughs

by Ed Brubaker

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative

Set immediately after the events of Year One, this story chronicles the first encounter between Batman and the Joker.
9

We Sold Our Souls

by Grady Hendrix

Also practical and escapist · entertainment, narrative

Kris Pulaski was the lead guitarist for Dürt Würk, a heavy metal band on the verge of stardom in the 1990s until their lead singer, Terry Hunt, betrayed the group for a solo contract.
10

Attack on Titan, Vol. 3

by Hajime Isayama

Also growth-minded and escapist · entertainment, narrative

Volume three picks up in the middle of the battle for Trost, where cadets of the 104th training corps fight Titans trying to break through the walls of the district.
11

The Walking Dead, Book One

by Robert Kirkman

Also escapist · entertainment, narrative

Sheriff Rick Grimes wakes from a coma to find an empty hospital and a world overrun by animated corpses.
12

Tomie

by Junji Ito

Also growth-minded and escapist · entertainment, narrative

Tomie follows a beautiful high school student who possesses an uncanny ability to drive men into murderous rages.

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