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I feel like there is really a wealth of great books out right now for the reader looking for not-superhero-comics.
A few I'm enjoying are:
Black Science-- Reality Hopping Murder Mystery. This is looking good, and going on a brief pause until July. Rick Remender makes good characters. Time to catch up!
The Massive-- Post-environmental crash by Brian Wood in short, yet continuous arcs; need I say more?
Umbral-- A fantasy book of street urchins, cross-dimensional shadow invaders, pistols, and untrusted wizards. Good stuff.
Federal Bureau of Physics-- Reality has gone haywire, and these guys are trying to manage the aftermath in our modern world. Subspace bubbles, holes between worlds, gravity anomalies, and government bureaucracy.
The Manhattan Projects-- Weird Science meets the Cold War meets craziness as a secret cabal of famous scientists leads mankind into the future. It's Hickman, and it's awesome.
Plus, there's Walking Dead, Conan, BPRD, Fables, Fairest. These are all just knock-down, drag-out fun.
Honorable mention has to go to East of West, Hickman's future-impending apocalyptic love story of Death and his lost son, to Trillium and it's mindbending future/past love story, to transgenic noir Elephantmen, and to hints-of-babylon-5 The Fuse.
I'm on the fence about Rocketgirl (but I love the concept), and Deadly Class, about a high school for assassins.
These have all been nice and consistent in publication, too, giving me a crazy pile of reading.
Is there one out there I'm missing?
-Ben.
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Image Comics needs you in marketing, because everything I've seen on Black Science made me want to skip it until that description made me stop and actually look into the product and then order the #1-6 compilation. Now onto Umbral...
Most of the ones you've listed are ones I've been meaning to check out for a while now.
One I'd have to add is Chew. A world where the bird flu killed off a large portion of the population, chicken (and other poultry) have been banned, and the FDA is one of the most powerful organisations in the world. People have started appearing with food based powers, like the protagonist, Tony Chu, a cibopath working for the FDA who can see the history of anything he eats. It's by turns bizarre, wrong, hilarious and surprisingly heart wrenching.
Also, Saga. Words fail me when it comes to describing what it is I love about this comic. All I can really say is that it's a beautifully told combination of fantasy and space opera, dealing with themes of racism, war and family, among others.
I definitely love Saga. I couldn't get into Chew or Sweet Tooth. I started reading Atomic Robo a while back (with FCD), but the storyline wasn't grabbing me. I'll have to go back.
I did back Squidder, from Templesmith, and it's been a far future apocalyptic unwilling-hero-adventure so far. True to his style, but moving pretty fast.
I'm hoping Hinterkind might replace Fables for me, but I'm not so sure yet.
Trees is pure Ellis, but it's lacking a crazy, gonzo element, which I'm enjoying.
The Wicked and the Divine has shades of Straczyski's Rising Stars but with more of a Scion sort of vibe.
I have not heard of BlackSad, I'll go look.
I've continued on Saga, and Trees is still fantastic. I'm still following Black Science (which has gone multiple timeline-wonderful), Fuse, and Low. Both Manhattan Projects and Umbral have been quiet for a while, but I'm happy enough with the story that I'll wait. Walking Dead, Conan, and (the whole family of) BPRD continue to be rock-solid month after month.
In the meantime, I've started up with Injection (Ellis) and Mythic. Both are excellent-- Injection appears to be about either an AI gone rampant or the mythological world bleeding over to our world while Mythic is about an organization of mythological creature hunters which also includes some Myths in its numbers...almost as if Fables had taken over The Laundry and gotten rid of all the Cthulhu elements.
The new Star Wars comics are all worth picking up, but especially Vader.
What non-superhero magazines are you picking up now?
I have to admit, I haven't enjoyed Nameless that much, or the Morrison book that seemed to be the same theme as Trillium, which was experimentally awesome. Descender has been really cool so far, too. Starve is a complete surprise, for the topic, but the story has been great-- who knew you could make a compelling comic about reality cooking TV?
-Ben.
RPG Superstar 2015 Top 32, RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32
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What non-superhero magazines are you picking up now?
The only graphic-novel-format story I'm currently following is Yona of the Dawn, which is really good. Unfortunately, it's not been published in English, so I keep having to wait for fan translations/summaries. :/ The earlier parts of the story do have a TV adaptation though, and I was able to watch it with subtitles. Also very good.