Death is made redundant and takes a job on a farm while the surplus life piles up.
Holy Wood discovers cinema and the Disc discovers popcorn.
A demonology hacker summons Rincewind instead of a demon; the Faust parody.
The heir to a desert kingdom trains as an assassin and inherits seven thousand years of ritual.
Three witches, a murdered king and a travelling theatre; Macbeth as Pratchett tells it.
A sourcerer is born and magic returns to the Disc all at once.
A wizard's staff goes to an eighth daughter; Granny Weatherwax argues with the university.
Tezuka's eight-volume life of Siddhartha, funny and profound.
A town cursed by spirals; Junji Ito's horror masterpiece.
A boy with a chainsaw devil for a heart hunts devils for the government; Fujimoto's chaos.
Humanity behind walls against titans; Isayama's manga ended in 2021 and the ending is still argued.
A delinquent joins the basketball team to impress a girl; the sports manga that made Japan play.
Miyamoto Musashi's road to becoming the greatest swordsman; Inoue's ink brush.
Urasawa remakes an Astro Boy story as a murder mystery about robots and war.
Childhood friends and a cult leader who copies their game; Urasawa's conspiracy epic.
A Japanese surgeon in Germany saves a boy who becomes a serial killer; Urasawa's thriller.
Two brothers, a failed transmutation and a military state; Arakawa's tightly plotted twenty-seven volumes.
Light Yagami and the notebook that kills; the manga the anime followed closely.
An outcast ninja with a fox demon inside him wants to lead his village; seventy-two volumes.
Luffy and the Straw Hats chase the One Piece across 100-plus volumes; the best-selling comic ever.
Goku from a boy with a tail to the Saiyan wars; the manga every shonen descends from.
A chimpanzee who wants to be human and two scouts, from 1957; the longest-running Polish comic.
Two Slavic warriors defend the village of Mirmilowo against the Zbojcerze; Poland's Asterix.
A Viking raised by Northmen, born of the stars; Rosinski's Polish-Belgian saga since 1977.
John Difool, a class-R detective, and a crystal that can save the universe; Moebius and Jodorowsky.
A sailor adrift in the Pacific on the eve of 1914; Hugo Pratt's literary adventurer.
Tintin in 1930s Shanghai against opium smugglers and the Japanese occupation; the album where Herge did his research.
Tintin searches the Himalayas for Chang after a plane crash; Herge's own favourite, without a villain.
A village of indomitable Gauls, a magic potion and Romans to thump; the first of thirty-nine.
Charlie Brown, Snoopy and fifty years of small despair; start with the 1950s.
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