I grew up loving spawn, especially the cartoon series. I was wondering if there was any manga that could match the eerie, dark, spooky vibes of the spawn cartoon. And it must be for adults. Someone recommended me jujitsu kaisen at the bookstore in my area but it was a total letdown. Not that it was bad, but it wasn't what I was looking for.

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Suggestions: Berserk, Gantz, Monster

Thanks. I added those to my wishlist.

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I’m not familiar with Spawn but it sounds like Homunculus would fit, or if you’re open to more out-there material, Nijigahara Holograph and Uncivilized Planet are another few.

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Not familiar with Spawn but if you want dark/thriller stuff check out Carnby KIM's body of work, especially Bastard and Sweet Home. You might also like Jigokuraku (KAKU Yuuji)

I recommend Ubel Blatt and Devilman.

I recommend Blame! and Hellsing then. Edit: Drifters, too.

I'm a jack of all trades but master of none. Too many jars and not enough hands.

Thanks for all the recommendations. I have a lot of volume 1s to check out to see which complete series I may want to cop.

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Adult is the porn section of the site but whatever. The (unfinished) Spawn manga blows. Dorohedoro is the safest bet, especially when it comes to art. Gantz, Hellsing and the 2nd half of the Gungrave anime especially are dead ringers for Spawn-style stories. There are also tons of urban fantasy demon hunter manga like Chainsaw Man (don´t ask me why regular Jump ran it for 11 volumes) or Parasyte. Like a LOT a lot. Just play around with tags.

Zetman is a mess in parts but is a good comparison to Spawn and a clear-cut superhero book. There are a few edgy Kamen Rider books and I guess Guyver that also fit the genre Spawn is part of but let´s go with the still untranslated Batman: Justice Buster. It´s a gritty TV-14 take on modern Batman and he and Spawn will have a new crossover this winter.
Greg Capullo is the definitive Spawn artist, McFarlane´s own words, and he drew a lot of edgy Bat-book with Scott Snyder starting in 2011. The closest you will get with US books is his Batman + spin-offs.

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Thanks. I looked at a lot of stuff and even w dark themes and blood and gore and stuff, most of this stuff has childish sounding dialogue between the characters. I must say that kind of turns me off. The best manga I've found so far was blade of the immortal, but I'm thinking it can get better than this. I wasn't too fond of berserk as it has the somewhat childish sounding dialogue. I'm wondering if it's a cultural difference between Japan and the US.

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Berserk is one of the highest regarded manga in the history of the comic medium. The multi-layered storytelling is comparable to an Alan Moore in his prime. George R. R. Martin´s novels don´t sound "better" or "worse" than it. The only way to get superior dialogue is to read a comic that is more focused on dialogue than the plot. Let´s say Sandman. That one is all about exact sentence structure and prose. Or to the read one of those prose comics that treat art as a supplementary element.

Long-form stories with better dialogue that Berserk is very hard to come by regardless of where the work originated from and there is nothing wrong with the official translation of Berserk outside of a few inserted cultural references ("groovy" from Evil Dead). 20th Century Boys or Monster have better dialogue but key moments there boil down to 2 people talking. You can´t really have that in a "genre" book as payoffs.

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I'm just starting to get into fiction. I used to only read non fiction but i recently have acquired a newfound appreciation of fictional storytelling. In fact I wrote my own fictional book, and I naturally made realistic dialogue between the characters. I guess that was one of the strong points in my work. Maybe my expectations were too high, but I also held myself to the same standard, I guess that's why I expected it in other works that I picked up. Btw. I also would love to turn my work into a manga, so if any artists out there would like to see a pdf copy of my story feel free to message me. I'll send a pdf of the book I wrote. And u can send me some of ur art if you like the story then maybe we can work together.

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