#19 America's Best Comics - New, vital work from legendary writer Alan Moore.

The mad genius behind The Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell has been very busy lately. Several years ago he started his own line of comics and wrote all five titles. Tom Strong is Moore's take on the überman, a hero who was raised in a chamber with cranked up gravity. Promethea is a female heroine whose powers stem from the combined imaginations of all humanity. Tomorrow Stories tells short tales in the vein of EC and Eisner. My favorite, Top 10, is cop drama set in a universe populated solely by superheros.

The most popular book in the line The League of Extraordinary Gentleman features dream team made up of characters from classic literature; Allan Quatermaine, Mina Harker, Captain Nemo and Dr. Jekyll go toe to toe with Dr. Fu Manchu. Volume II, which hits stores on July 24, 2002, pits the League against a Martian invasion (likely inspired my Edgar Rice Burroughs). America's Best Comics are smart, fun and quite diverse considering they're all about superheroes.