Hey guys my fiance is asking me to give her comics to read which

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Captain Marvel sucks but Wonder Woman is cool, don't be like that.

comics are for boys

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>>83422505
There you go

>>83422505

Men can't write good wymin characters even if their lives depended on it, they all resort back the tropey-flat character and hardly ever get past it.

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have her read Ms. Marvel, Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Supergirl any female title from DC .

Birds of Prey

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>>83422834
Buying this now...

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starfire's run is good. the first trade for Starfire should be out now

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>>83422505
Dan slott run of she hulk.
Seriously it's fucking amazing and has action drama a little romance and lots of comedy.
One of the most underrated comic runs ever if you ask me.

Love and Rockets. Give her Jaime's Locas stories.

>>83422505
The original Birds of Prey run. Your pic is the exact opposite of what you want.

>>83422505
Birds of Prey. Also Aquaman. Shed probably love Aquaman. Mera is the best empowered female in comics IMO.

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>>83423113

>>83422994
You're going to get dumped, jackass.

>>83423236
I'd dump him too

>>83422505
Perez Wonder Woman
Batgirl by Puckett

>>83422505
Depends, if she wants shallow females that just crack jokes and act immature have her read Marvel.

If she wants solid actually competent females have her read anything DC except Grahams Batgirl.

>>83422716
>Jessica Jones
>strong
Hahahahahahahah

>>83422505
Spider-Girl (The Mayday series), Araña's series, Cassandra Cain is getting reprinted collections of her series, shit, maybe even Runaways.
Oh, and there's probably a few She-Hulk books shed tolerate.

There's also Power Girl and Starfire, but the cheesecake factor may not be to her liking.

>>83422505
>But here's what sucks, she wants comics with like a strong female lead or whatever that means.
This is a trap. Get her to define what she means.

>>83422820
The covers were a sign of what was to come

>>83423545
don't do that, just give her good comics and even if she wanted shitty quirky shit instead maybe she'll read them anyway and develop good taste

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>>83422505
DC has a lot of good female superheroes

>>83422820
What is that?

>>83425231
You don't want to know.

>>83425352
Now I have to know...

>>83422505
can we talk about the fact that batgirl has a dick in OP image?

>>83425389
It's a story about aunt May's and Parker's mom romances.

>>83425509
Dammit nigga, I was typing a whole thing there, with multiple levels of hell to draw the poor foolish Anon in and there you go spilling the whole Big Secret as to why the comic is so fucking horrible. You haven't even mentioned the cuckoldry or "I'm sterile".

Journey into Mystery (issues #646-655) featuring Sif
she literally goes on a girl power quest, and/but it's actually pretty awesome

>>83425585
>why the comic is so fucking horrible
Why?
>"I'm sterile".
Wait, what?

>>83425585
I tried to forget details. They had boyfriends, one of them was into sex, the other one wanted to wait till later, then they were cheating on each other and.... god damn it!

>>83422994
Ok anything except red hood and the outlaws
The fuck were they thinking

>>83423157
This. Then you have her read Beto's superior Palomar stories.

>>83422505
Zattana and power girl are great.
Zatanna is probably the best choice for getting her to branch out into male comics power girl spends little time with males

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Try with this OP

>>83422716
>Black Hole
That comic is weird. I didn't find it particularly sad, but at the end I didn't know what to think of anything I had just read.

Anyone have any opinions on this work?

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Look no further than the bossest-ass bitch of the '90s!

If you're into UK-styled 90's insanity

Get Tank Girl 1, 2, 3 then check out the new-ish collection called 21st Century Tank Girl

and watch the shite movie for a laugh

If she's open to a story with multiple main characters where one of them is a woman, 52 might be a good pick. Renee Montoya is fucking great in that, and in terms of narrative importance she's probably in the top three or four characters, there's really not a main character so that's about as big as anyone in the story is.

She's a lesbian though, so depending on your fiancé that may or may not put her off if she wants a woman she can relate to. It's not a HUGE part of the character but it's there.

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Evangeline
Modesty Blaise
Ms. Tree
Red Sonja
Margot in Badtown

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>>83422505
Supergirl V6
Batgirl V1 and 3
X-23 by Marjorie Liu, Innocence lost and Target X
Selina's Big Score and Brubaker's Catwoman. Also Trail of the Catwoman if you want a little more context, but you can skip it as long as you read Selina's Big Score.
Batwoman: Elegy

Give her Rat Queens and Letter 44, dumbo.

>>83425983
Lesbians that only have that as a minor part of there character are best lesbians

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Demo vol. 1 by Brian Wood is a series of 12 one-shot comics about real-as-fuck superpower stories. Very worth checking out, I'd say about half the leads of the stories are female.

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Kabuki. Starts off kind like any generic 90s "bad girl" comic but gets more artsy and psychological later on.

>>83426188
Not even OP but this looks interesting. Thanks for the rec.

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Try Bone.

>>83423157
>>83426327
criminally underrated posts

Xena
Gotham Academy
Gotham city sirens
Birds of prey
Judge dredd:Anderson

Love & Rockets
Ghost World
Patience
Guido Crepax' Valentina comics
The Adventures of Jodelle
Nausicaa
Mimi and the Wolves
Revenger
Helter Skelter Fashion Unfriendly
Anya's Ghost
School Spirits
Operation Margerine
This One Summer
I Love This Part
THB

>>83426308
No worries anon, honestly I can't remember how I found it but it became one of all-time favourites.

Prepare for feels. Like a soldier who hits his target 100% of the time, but doesn't want to kill. Or a girl whose words have literal immediate effect, so refuses to speak due to things she's said in the past.

>>83426188
Volume 2 is also good. Wish he did another.

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Hellboy and B.P.R.D. Based Liz, Kate, Panya, Alice, and Varvara.

Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina
Ghostbusters International

>>83422505
This One Summer.

I Kill Giants if she's the depressive type.

Tomboy

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OP here. Looks like most people are recommended DC or indie which is cool. I've written down some good suggestions.

Any Marvel though? I know more about 616 than anything else. If she has any questions about DC or something I probably wouldn't be able to help.

>>83427105
Marvel is pretty gimmicky when it comes to their female characters. They all tend to have the same personality and very few good stories.

Bandette

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>>83426527
>Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina
This looks sick.
Is it any good?

The Maxx

>>83427226
Very

>>83427105
Sensational She-Hulk
Dakota North

Hack//slash>>83427324

>>83427105
She-Hulk by John Byrne
Black Widow by Rucka
Personally I'm waiting for the Phil Noto Widow miniseries and trade-waiting the Waid/Samnee one.

>>83427105
read your thread, nigga

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Basically an undercover KGB agent becomes 70s Wonder Woman.

Lazarus, Bitch Planet, Pretty Deadly, Copperhead, Three Devils...

>>83427562
Bitch Planet is so good.

>>83427226
It's great. It's basically Sabrina told in that 70s pulp horror style, full of satanism and occult weirdness. I love it. Frankly, it's even better than Afterlife with Archie.

>>83427105
Kamala and she hulk
Maybe captain marvel that's pretty much all marvel has difficulty writing female characters without shoving in there sjw shit
Just stay the fuck away from whor

>>83430365
She-Thor isn't good?
I haven't been following it.

>>83430437
It's a bunch of sjw shit
You know that unsolicited opinions on isreal page

That's a real unedited page

>>83430879
Wait shit my mistake that wasent whor
But it is exactly the sort of thing you see in whor

Give her Ronin and Martha Washinton by Frank fucking Miller.

>>83425231
>>83425389

It's trouble. Nerd Hulk died trying to get that signed.

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storm

>>83422505
Gotham Academy would probably appeal to her. Tell her it passes the Bendis test and it has interesting characters, although they are all high school level. Describe it to her as a YA suspense mystery but light on the horror/gore elements.

Batgirl would be good. DC Comics Bombshells, if she likes retro looking art as well. Just point out that Batgirl has attractive/drawn as endowed in some cases females but it also, easily, passes the Bendis test and it definitely qualifies as a Strong Female Comic.

And if you really want to get on her good side, recommend Lumberjanes.

>>83422716
>Batwoman
>Gotham Central
>no Renee Question
who authorized this

>>83432144
>the Bendis test
>Lumberjanes
>Batgirl
>Bombshells
what the fuck is this

shut the fuck up

>>83432144
We already put money down on the wedding venue and stuff bro I can't really call things off at this point.

>>83422716
Why do demon knights, the one above it and what I assume is death from sandman 3 down from the top left corner not have titles

>>83432369
Heh

>>83422716
>Hack/Slash
>come for the mild cheesecake and slasher movie sendups, stay for the feels and DEEPEST LORE

>>83423308
And yet fawning over Grayson is completely fine.

>>83422505
Cerebusm

>>83432785
Grayson is well-written and respectful of the character's past history

>>83422505
Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol, Crazy Jane is basically the main character and 9 girls out of 10 will love the character of Crazy Jane.
Plus, Rebis.

>>83426112
I haven't read that since the alien gun fired. Have there been female character that did more than fuck people?

>>83426112
Rat Queens is garbage.

>>83422505
Rucka's Wonder Woman

>>83422716
Fuck yeah White Out
OP tell her to read Nextwave, it's impossible not to enjoy Nextwave
Avoid Hack/Slash it's overall mediocre

>>83430365
It shot itself in the foot in issue fucking one
It's so bad it caused lots of us to give up on Marvel completely
A scene so utterly retarded it actually turned some of us into republicans

>>83422505
Cassandra Cain Batgirl.

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OP show her this, my girlfriend loved it. Especially because it's true.
American Vampire is also really, really good.

>>83427105
Mockingbird

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>>83423113
>>83422834
These.
Ms. Marvel and Slott's She-Hulk are the best, least hamfisted female leads.

Alternatively get her short-run indie stuff like Locke & Key. No 'strong female leads', but chicks love that shit.

>>83422505
Does she want sjw faggotry? Or just "badass female characters"?

>>83434991
>>83423113
Slott's She-Hulk is shit.

Sensational She-Hulk is one of the best comics ever.

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>>83427105
Virginia (Vision), Scarlet Witch and more

Also the trade comes out early July

>>83435246
is the trade going to have the full run or am I going to be mad at it like with Loki because it's short enough to have everything but Marvel has shit trades?

>>83422505
Promethea
Nextwave
Wonder Woman: Earth One
Seven Soldiers of Victory
Bandette
Batgirl
Ms. Marvel

>>83426327
Rose too. And maybe V For Vendetta

>>83435290
12 issues I believe

>Tom King @TomKingTK
As to Vision, I'm on through issue 12. We're finishing the story we set out to tell without a single compromise.
1:03 PM - 18 Feb 2016

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>>83435290
Probably 6 then 6 seeing that we're at 8/12.

>>83435491
>>83435546
Looked it up, first trade is only the first six issues

I shall maintain my ire at Marvel for their garbage trades

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>>83435563
>marvel not waiting til the whole run is out

>>83427226
The only downside is that the release schedule is erratic as fuck.

>>83435581
>meanwhile DC is #2 in bookstore trades
>and Marvel is #5
>while bookstore trades are growing way faster than floppies
it's a pretty good feel

Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade.

>>83422716
The protagonists of Ghostworld are certainly not strong.

>>83436037
maybe that chart is using the correct definition of strong female character

>>83425978
Yes, it's really fucking good.

Charles Burns is one of my favorite artists bar none, his hatching alone is worth the read.

All new Wolverine

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>>83422505
Giant Days
Belladonna
Les Nombrils
Wake

>>83436940
please tell me she didn't cheat on her highschool sweetheart

>>83422505
- Beauty
- Miss Don't Touch Me
- Beautiful Darkness

All of them have gorgeous art and the protagonists are women.

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>/v/ starts thread about good games with female protagonists
>instantly becomes a stream of shitposting and boogeyman namecalling
>/tv/ starts thread about good movies with female protagonists
>two people try to help and then the rest of the thread is complaining about the blacks and the jews
>/co/ starts thread about good comics and cartoons with female protagonists
>virtually every single post is super helpful and together have given the OP dozens and dozens of options to choose from, and every image is thread relevant aside from a total of two unrelated reaction images

/co/ is the best board. I don't care what anyone says. And I know I'm ruining the moment by being a hypocrite and posting something off-topic, so I'll go ahead and give suggestions to OP:

>Lost at Sea
>Seconds
>The Meek
I don't know why none of these have been listed. Though that's another compliment I'll give: Everyone is suggesting something different for the most part, and people are still giving new suggestions this far into the thread. That's awesome.

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>>83437535
because this is an ugly tumblr-facebook-reddit algamation, it's not even remotely 4chan anymore

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>>83437582
This. /co/ is tumblr.

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>>83437308
>she didn't cheat on her highschool sweetheart

"she didn't cheat on her highschool sweetheart"

Anything for you, anon. You meant this she, right? ;)

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>>83437582
4chan isn't 4chan anymore

>>83437582
So you don't like that this thread is civil, informative, and helpful?

>>83437659
Does she at least feel bad or acknowledge it as a mistake? That page you posted actually looked good. I want to read it but I can't if one of the main characters is a cheating douche.

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>>83437751
Giant Days has non-perfect characters who make the mistakes typical of their age. But douches they are not. Pic related summarises events published online only as a kind of a prequel.

Bellybuttons starts with silly exagerated characters but with a continual story line and, around the fourth issue, more serious character development and psycho-suspense. None of the characters are perfect, even the noodly Karine.has faults and makes moral compromises.

However, I think Allison's writing is superior.

>>83438152
That sounds dope as fuck. That is definitely the next thing I read.

Gotta have flawed characters- Jaime, Zuko- shit is my jam.

Thanks for the recommendation.

>>83437535
We still know how to get our anger up when an auctual social justice warrior shows up we just dont jump at shadows like a lot of boards do

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Gorgeous Barbucci art that your fiancé will be enjoy and keep you moderately aroused throughout.

She's just so...bouncy...

>>83432300
You're an idiot if you don't know what the Bendis test is and why women might care about it OR why (even if you could give two fucks) it would help you get laid or at least meet real live (versus plastic blow up version) girls by using "Bendis test" in a conversation about comic books and using it correctly, and appropriately.

The bottom three, since you are too stupid to look them up, are all comic book titles currently in print.

>>83432369
Think you were replying to someone else, I didn't say anything about calling anything off.

>>83422505
Alias, but be careful, she might leave you for a nigger

>>83439247
I looked it up
I can't find a fucking thing so just explain what the fuck it is

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>>83439247
>Bendis test
>>83440828
Anon might mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test
otherwise I'm stumped too.

>>83440931
Only possible explanation I'm gonna check those comics to see if they pass (not that the test is anything but bullshit of course)

>>83440931
The funny thing? I'm genuinely not sure if that dude's a retarded feminist, or just pretending to be a retarded feminist.

>>83441525
Probably a retarded chick.

The Authority (Specifically Warren Ellis' initial run. Other writers essentially made it the Midnighter show with special guest appearances from the Authority).

Jenny Sparks is the leader of a team of the world's most powerful superheroes, trying to change the world for the better. There's not much in the way of deep characterization, it's all action, but it shows how each of the characters are badasses, especially Jenny.

>>83422505
My wife loves saga. I've never read it but from what I can tell its like starwars mixxed with a studio ghibli. However, please don't trust my description because like I said I never read it.

>>83426496
>Varvara
>""""""woman""""""

>>83436940
>tfw no fat-bottomed Dutch goth gf

>>83441640
>the Midnighter show with special guest appearances from the Authority
Reminds me of arrow

>>83433932
Mockingbird is shit though.

>>83441562
That's redundant.

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>>83422505
strong female lead? Well then look no further OP

DC has a ton of great women heroes.
Besides capes, have her check out Gotham Academy.
Azzarello's Wonder Woman was fantastic

>>83426431
Fuck this sounds so good. I'm going to check it out too. Thanks man

Seconding:
I Kill Giants
Love and Rockets
Persepolis
Valerian and Laureline
Tank Girl
Give Me Liberty
Marzi
Wake/Sillage
Nausicaa
Building Stories

Adding:
The Cyann Saga
The Passengers of the Wind
Multiple Warheads maybe?

>>83437535
I'm never reading the meek because it will never be finished.

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>>83437582
sounds like you're the problem in an otherwise great thread

>>83422505

Ostrander's Spectre's PoV character is a pretty fleshed out lady.

But fuck cape books, go for stuff like persopolis or I kill Giants or even Tank Girl or something.

Paper Girls is pretty good, came out recently, by the Saga guy.

>>83444164
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01NO-0lASUw

>>83437535

I wouldn't reccomend Lost at Sea unless you're literally still in junior high. It's not really bad, but I couldn't appreciate it at all. Seconds was fun though. Not amazing, but good.

>>83446938

also i'm fucking dumb. Bone. It's amazing.

And there's a really good book by a french author called Miss Don't Touch Me that's fantastic, that I also forgot.

But I can't stress Bone enough.

Batwoman is good.