10 Criminally Underrated DC Comics You Must Read

The New 52 was pretty controversial, but that doesn’t mean that the company-wide reboot was wholly bad. There were several underrated titles that came out like Demon Knights, Voodoo, Dial H, Sword of Sorcery, or All Star Western, but the most underrated has to be Men of War.

A modernized throwback to the military comics of old, to the point where we see the grandson of the famous Sgt. Rock rise to the rank of Sergeant himself, Men of War was an interesting book. Filled with superheroes, unbelievable locales and cosmic beings walking the streets, this series held down the daunting task of being both realistic and set in a world that is a melting pot of genres.

Ivan Brandon on the main story, and a couple others writers on the back-up stories throughout, made that work. Tom Derenick’s pencils melded the absurd elements with the realism of the situations expertly too.

For the average reader in 2011, sadly, it had none of the hallmarks of the traditional title. A military book with two stories per issue, starring a character related to a character who hadn’t been prominent in decades, and none of the usual marketing trimmings to get people to hop into it put this book on the chopping block after only eight issues - along with so many other of the reboot's comics.