If you feel like Big Two, my dearest
@Ochalla , then two recent books come to mind that you may enjoy.
1)
Hawkguy Hawkeye run from 2012. About 20~ books or so, with varying art. But it's the stories that matters. There are no AVENGERS ASSEMBLE! or anything. Just Clint Barton trying to live a life in a run-of-the-mill loft apartment, somewhere in NYC. He has a dog, and a side-kick/replacement that won't shut up, and there are Russian mobsters that just won't leave him alone. It's incredible.
2)
Superior Spider-Man, also starting in 2012, ended with hundreds-of-issues-long running
Amazing Spider-Man with the death of Peter Parker. Otto Octavius, in his dying days, switches bodies with Peter in the final moments. Pete, unable to stop him or really have anyone believe him, dies inside of Otto's body. Otto, now in Pete's body, sets out to be the
HERO he was always meant to be as...
The SUPERIOR Spider-Man! 25 books long, and it is one of the best Spider-Man stories to come out in, dare I say, 20 years.
More obscure Big Two stuff:
1a) Alan Moore's run on
Swamp Thing. Do it, just do it. Morality, vengeance, trans-humanism, meta-physics... Just,
woah. The Frankenstein parellel here destroys anything Banner/Hulk on their BEST days.
2a)
Sandman by Neil Gaiman. I think you may have read this (and this might be Vertigo, fuckit, can't remember), but some of the most beautiful artwork and storytelling out there. You follow Dream during adventures, mis-adventures, and in meeting his siblings
The Endless, representing things in life such as, Oh, I don't know,
DEATH.
Non-obscure Big Two stuff that still is incredible:
1b)
The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller. I think you might have heard of this. It's only one of the most important comic book stories in all of history. It is the apotheosis of all things grim and dark in the 80's, and changes the face of comics for the next decade (and resurged its popularity). Don't let "grim and dark" turn you away though. This is the beginning, this is what made it popular; this is
where it was done right. An aging Batman decides to take up the mantle once again in a Gotham that is choking in blood and filth and crime... It's good. So good, I'm about to go read it again.
2b) Frank Miller's run on
Daredevil. A quick Google search can give you the exact numbers, but this is where the Matt we now know comes from. All of his stuff with Elektra, the struggle he has a Catholic with the over-load of Christian imagery, and as above, the dark and gritty. This is good stuff, and how that Daredevil movie with Ben Affleck screwed up, I have no idea. That new Daredevil show on Netflix, however...
As an aside, I never read these but, I think you might like it:
FABLES. As taken from the Wiki: "
Fables was a comic book series published by DC Comics's Vertigo imprint beginning in 2002. The series deals with various people from fairy tales and folklore – referring to themselves as "Fables" – who have been forced out of their Homelands by "The Adversary" who has conquered the realm. The Fables have traveled to our world and formed a clandestine community in New York City known as Fabletown. Fables who are unable to blend in with human society (such as monsters and anthropomorphic animals) live at "the Farm" in upstate New York."