It also seems a little willfully ignorant. The challenge suggestion post says "Please do make challenges that fall outside of what users of the site might predominantly already read," and I'd have to be actively persuaded that DC comics --especially some of their most famous franchise properties-- fall outside our demographic's typical reading range.

I kind of assume that fans of spec-fic, mythology, and/or contemporary fiction, are probably reasonably familiar with Batman and Gaiman as juggernauts of the contemporary narrative landscape.

If we want to suggest short-form American-published comics outside the Venn diagram, we could try an Atomic Robo FCBW, or Angel Catbird, or (a little longer and more well-known but still not likely to have been actually read) Maus.

Anything by Boom! Studios, anything by Image that isn't Saga...

IDW's got a reputation for excellent franchise tie-in comics.

@DukeZhou Since closed.

@manshu The murder was clearly something he'd planned for a long time and executed very efficiently, so he didn't want to do it too early and risk muffing the whole thing. And he didn't kill her in the city - he killed her out in the middle of nowhere as she was leaving her home.

I think of him as being like the murderers of various Poe stories: cold, calculating, insane, efficient.

@Gallifreyan In my case, both. I'm a snob who doesn't read comics / graphic novels, but I also think that both Batman and Sandman are mainstream enough not to make good cultural-scope-broadening topic challenges, so I feel OK about downvoting. (Well, I downvoted Batman, not Sandman yet.)

@Randal'Thor I'd be interested in seeing more non-genre comics, like Harvey Pekar or Maus or Persepolis.

Or... ooh, I almost forgot about March.

I read Maus and Our Cancer Year for a class in college. Wish we'd read Persepolis too.

We also read a Sandman comic, two Batman comics, two Frank Millers, two Alan Moores...

@Shokhet Haha! (I knew it would be successful, just hoped for maybe a longer run;)

And some weird ones that I can't recall at all... [rummages through old lists]