even other comic fans, make them out to be. Most writers are aware that they do need to re-explain some things or write things in a way so that the story is still entertaining and comprehensible to people even without 60 years of knowledge. There's exceptions ofc but still.
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Spider-man: Life Story
Earth X
Vision by Tom King
Black Bolt by Saladin Ahmed
DC: The New Frontier
The Dark Knight Returns
Kingdom Come (Admittedly a more Superman focused story, but it's about the wider Dc Universe as a whole, not just him)
Wonder Woman: Dead Earth
Sandman by Neil Gaiman (Kinda cheating, technically in Dc Universe)
Die by Kieron Gillen
The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen
Giant Days by John Allison
Y: The Last Man
Descender (And Ascender, the sequel) by Jeff Lemire
Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai (Has been going for 40 years but legitimately you can jump in whenever and it will be fine)
Fatale by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips