Source: ifanboy.com

9. The Challengers of the Unknown Must Die!

Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale are a kind of famous team. But before their work with Batman, Spider-Man, and Daredevil earned them fame, so they took a shot at one of DC's lesser-known super teams, the Challengers of the Unknown.

I always found the Challengers interesting, but never managed to make a real connection with them. But the Loeb/Sale series is a very modern interpretation that would be more at home under Vertigo or Young Animal than I think it was at the time.

The pitch was simple: All of the Challengers of the Unknown stories we've seen so far were fictionalizations of "real" people. The brave men living on borrowed time were actually a lot more sad and a lot less attractive than we'd been told. When Challenger Mountain exploded and killed June and the Prof, the remaining Challs (Rocky, Ace, and Red) had to find their places in the world.

It's a weird book that definitely has flaws, but also feels totally unpredictable.