12 Image Comics Titles Kelly Sue DeConnick Loves

Casanova, by Matt Fraction and Gabriel Ba
My husband scripts this book, so I’m biased, but I love it. I love it because it’s Fraction, Bá and Moon with the brakes off. Inventive, irreverent and unpredictable.

The Wicked + the Divine, by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
Viva la POP.

I.D. by Emma Ríos/Mirror: The Mountain, by Emma Ríos and Hwei Lim
Works by my Pretty Deadly collaborator, Emma Ríos — ID, on her own, and Mirror, with the phenomenally talented Hwei Lim. Taiyo Matsumoto is my favorite Japanese creator and I can see his influence on Emma in ID. Mirror reminds me how lucky I am to work with her — she doesn’t need me, and can do both our jobs.

American Flagg, by Howard Chaykin
Chaykin. Hyper-masculine men and hyper-sexual women, this is off-brand for me, but I love Howard all the same, and truly, he understands and plays with the medium like few others. American Flagg is a master class.

Criminal, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
I always think I have Brubaker figured out and he always surprises me. His ARCHIE COMICS homage predicted RIVERDALE. And the Brubaker/Phillips partnership is one of those that feels like a single voice.

Lazarus, by Greg Rucka, Owen Freeman, and Michael Lark
Greg and I are stylistically very different writers, but we both write with our blood up. And often, over similar issues. Lazarus shares something of its lizard brain with Bitch Planet, though, I might be the only one who can see that. And Lark? What can you say about Lark? Comics for people who don’t think they like comics. I defy you to resist Michael Lark.

Trees, by Warren Ellis and Jason Howard/Fell, by Warren Ellis andBen Templesmith
Two by my favorite comic book writer, Warren Ellis. Trees, leave it to Ellis to make a comic about existential angst and have it work. And Fell is a sentimental favorite.

I Kill Giants, by Joe Kelly and J.M. Ken Niimura
I’m jealous of this book.

Autumnlands, by Kurt Busiek, Ben Dewey,and Jordie Bellaire 
So very beautiful.

Umbral, by Antony Johnston, John Rauch, Christopher Mitten 
Why aren’t more people talking about Umbral?!
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