Hi, folks! I’m a fairweather comic fan. I just started building a library of DRM-free comics, so it’s quite small at the moment, and I’m looking to branch out. I was pretty set on 100 Bullets until I found out just today that apparently not everything on Global Comix is DRM-free. Bummer. Anyway, I’m curious what you folks might recommend instead. I’m looking for digital, DRM-free comics.

I’ve recently read through Invincible and The Boys. Yes, I know, the stuff that gets adapted into TV shows tends to be a form of curation. I enjoyed them both, but I’m looking for something at this point that’s not a super hero story. I love crime stories, and I’m a big fan of the movie A History of Violence. It credits a graphic novel for its source material, but the graphic novel doesn’t seem to be available for purchase anywhere for some reason; I’d be curious to know why, if anyone here knows and would like to fill me in. So failing that, I read the free first issue of 100 Bullets a long while back, and I was intrigued, but now with the DRM, I’m inclined to flip them the bird and keep looking for something else.

In the past, I’ve read some Alan Moore like V for Vendetta and Watchmen. I’ve read stuff like Maus for class (one of my favorite assigned readings for any class) and still have a hard cover version on my shelf. I read most of The Walking Dead and stopped somewhere around the arc with the whisperers. I think my preference would be for either a crime story or for science fiction. Additionally, I’d like a story that has either ended or is definitively heading toward some sort of end, rather than the type of super hero story that gets rebooted ad infinitum; or the type of story that just keeps going on and on with no end in sight, or the end is just arbitrary.

Anything you folks think might be up my alley, available digitally and DRM-free?