10 Best Comic Books That DON'T Have Superheroes

10. American Vampire

Comics readers let out a huge sigh of disappointment when DC announced that Vertigo, the superhero publisher's imprint of 25-plus years, would close come 2020. Vertigo characters who made the jump to the mainstream DC universe, like John Constantine (who I guess we can begrudgingly call a superhero nowadays), have managed to survive its closure, but the sad fact remains that DC will be without one of its most beloved elements before the year's end.

I'll get to some of the more famous and indeed beloved Vertigo comics soon enough, but one title I really want to hone in on right now is American Vampire. The series was a Scott Snyder-Stephen King collaboration that featured some truly mesmerising art from Rafael Albuquerque and Mateus Santolouco, and one that offered a fascinating new reimagining of old Vampiric mythology by charting the generational and genealogical differences between the different vampires of the world.

Moving through the eras, American Vampire was bold, ambitious and bone chilling when it had to be. It was also the comic that probably landed Snyder his gig on Detective Comics (where he would write The Black Mirror), and later Swamp Thing and Batman, so it's well worth reading if you loved his work on those particular titles.