9. Brilliant

(Icon Comics)

Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley's Brilliant is"¦ well quite frankly it's brilliant. It's a unique take on the superhero genre that veers into more of a cerebral thriller. But with superpowers. A college student returns to discover that his old friends have been hard at work on one project: figuring out how to give themselves superpowers. But one of the group might not have exactly waited until it was safe to try it out. Things go straight to hell, as you probably could have assumed, and the series touches off into a tense, nerve-racking thrill ride where no one is safe, not even the ones who seem bulletproof.

The only reason this book is so low on my list is because the series still isn't done yet. But once it's complete, a big screen adaptation would be a super-powered thriller that could surpass even films like 2012's excellent Chronicle.