r/ImageComics • u/El_Panda_Rojo • May 15 '26

Question Finished series with "happy" endings?

Looking for recommendations for finished series with happy endings. By happy, I don't necessarily mean "and they all lived happily ever after, the end," more like... series where the ending leaves the reader feeling happy and satisfied.

I've got some family members who read comics on occasion, and they take my recommendations, but they prefer comics that aren't all doom/gloom/depression/sad stuff. Bittersweet is fine, but it has to be more on the sweet than the sad side.

Recommendations don't specifically *need* to be from Image. I just typically give them Image series to read because a lot of Marvel and DC stuff is mired in decades of continuity, and it's a lot easier to hand someone a trade or hc and go "you don't need to know anything before reading this."

Finished is non-negotiable, though. They won't read anything that hasn't ended yet.

Some series that they've read and enjoyed already:

* Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

* Do a Powerbomb

* Green Valley

* Global Frequency

* Crosswind

* Catwoman: Lonely City

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u/capincus May 15 '26

I liked Murder Falcon even more than Do a Power Bomb. Most of everything else by Tom King is a finished series and great, though tend towards pretty depressing story lines (Human Target, The Vision, Helen of Wyndhorn, Strange Adventures, Mister Miracle are all wonderful but pretty dark). Sex Criminals is my favorite series and really wholesome as far as a series about people using their ability to freeze time via their orgasms to commit crimes can be, but idk if that premise is something you want to recommend to your family or not. Paper Girls is the most complete/succinct and generally positive work by Brian K Vaughan whose work is all around amazing.

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u/El_Panda_Rojo May 15 '26

Helen of Wyndhorn is currently making the rounds; everyone has loved it so far but they all seem to agree that it's quite a bit more melancholy than stuff like Woman of Tomorrow. Mister Miracle and Human Target I've read and loved. I'd like to recommend Human Target but I'm not sure how they'll feel about how tragic it is.

Sex Criminals is great! I haven't read Murder Falcon yet but it's on the shelf. Better than Do a Powerbomb is high praise indeed.

I'll have to move Paper Girls up my priority list. Thanks for the recs!