Reddit reviews American Vampire Vol. 1

So I'm not sure with how well versed the guys are with comics, but I'll throw out some recommendations that are pretty much must-reads for anyone interested:

Fables - If you've played Telltale's A Wolf Among Us, this is what it's based on. Simple concept: Fable and fairy tale characters exist, and live in a hidden NYC community, as refugees of their respective magical worlds and lands which "The Adversary" has conquered.

Y: The Last Man - Yorick Brown is the last surviving man on Earth, after plague wipes out everyone with a Y-chromosome. He hits the road with a gov't agent, and his pet monkey to find his girlfriend and figure out what happened to the world.

American Vampire - This one's tough to describe. It's sort of a generational story, taking place over 100+ years throughout the run, and with a few different characters it focuses on... but it's primarily about the first "american vampire" and his encounters with both humans and other breeds of vampires.

100 Bullets - This might not actually be a good rec, because the first 2 or so TPB's aren't indicative of the book overall... it's about as slow burn as slow burn can get. Premise starts out simple: A man gives seemingly random people a case with a gun and 100 bullets that are untraceable, full immunity from prosecution, and the option to get revenge on the person or people that wronged them. It spirals out from that basic premise into a 100 issue story that involves secret societies, conspiracies, and a really badass group of characters that'll require a Homeland-esque board with pins and string to map out who's on what side and what the hell is going on, lol. BUT IT IS SO FUCKING WORTH IT TO STICK WITH IT PAST THE INITIAL PREMISE.

Birthright - Simple premise: a kid travels to a fantasy world, but in the real world he is believed to have disappeared, with his father as the main suspect. Some time later, an adult man, long haired and beareded, with a sword and dressed like he's right out of LOTR appears and claims to be the boy that was lost. As the writer put it, it's the story of what happens AFTER all the great fantasy adventure movies of our childhoods, where the real world consequences come into play..

Scalped - From Amazon: Fifteen years ago, Dashiell "Dash" Bad Horse ran away from a life of abject poverty and utter hopelessness on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation in hopes of finding something better. Now he's come back home armed with nothing but a set of nunchucks, a hell-bent-for-leather attitude and one dark secret, to find nothing much has changed on "The Rez" -- short of a glimmering new casino, and a once-proud people overcome by drugs and organized crime. -- this is a dark, fucked up crime epic set on an Indian Reservation, full of conspiracies, and a ton of twists and turns.