Rick Remender is one of the hottest writers in comics today. Getting his start on small press indie stuff as a teenager in the late '80s, he would work his way up, creating comics and album art for Fat Wrecks Chords, a punk label, teaching at the Academy Of Art University, and working as an inker before getting the chance to write his own stuff at Image.

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He would parlay this into working at Marvel, where he wrote a variety of books and gain even more popularity before leaving the company and working exclusively at Image. Here's a look at the ten best Rick Remender comic runs.

10 Punisher: War Journal/Punisher/Franken-Castle

Rick Remender joined writer Matt Fraction on Punisher: War Journal in 2008 and would co-write the book before getting his own Punisher book. The character would be killed off in Dark Reign: The List: Punisher and Remender would spin that off into Franken-Castle.

For all intents and purposes, Franken-Castle should not have worked but it did and that's a testament to Remender's skill as a writer, as the Punisher is a character with a very limited appeal and the last time anything similar was tried with the character- the 1998 Marvel Knights mini-series- it died on the vine.

9 Fear Agent

Fear Agent is the book that got Remender's foot in the door and showed publishers what he could do. Heath Hudson is a Fear Agent, a member of a task force whose job it is eradicate alien threats to the planets that are members and Heath's beat is Earth.

This one combined sci-fi with Remender's trademark blend of dark humor, great action writing, and wonderful pathos to create a unique book that fans loved. Heath himself is an interesting character- a Mark Twain studying redneck alcoholic who is also the last Fear Agent, holding the line all by himself.

8 Captain America

Captain America Dimension Z

Remender took Captain America into new territory in the beginning of his run, stranding him in another dimension where he has to protect the son of his foe, Arnim Zola. Sci-fi dimension hopping was new territory for Captain America and gave fans a glimpse of the character they hadn't had before.

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From there, he pits Cap against Nuke, Zola, and Red Skull. A pretty solid Captain America run, it combined new avenues for the character to go down with some tried and true stuff for a comic that was a lot of fun to read.

7 Seven To Eternity

Seven to Eternity

Seven To Eternity stars Adam Osidis, a dying knight who begins a quest with a group of hopeless magic users to free the kingdom of Zhal from the evil God of Whispers. Along the way, they face all manners of hardships, not the least of which is the dark god's promise to cure Adam.

This Image series combines sci-fi, fantasy, and Westerns into a Dark Tower-esque tale with amazing art by Remender's frequent artistic collaborator Jerome Opeña.

6 Low

Low takes place billions of years in the Earth's future. The sun has expanded into a red giant and what's left of humanity has moved under the oceans. The series follows the Caine family as they try survive in a rapidly dying world and their search for some kind of hope.

Another top notch Image sci-fi series, this one with art by Greg Tocchini, Low has captured the imaginations of readers in a way that few books have, full of cool mechs, family drama, and pulse pounding action. After a lengthy hiatus, Remender is getting ready to put the finishing touches on it.

5 Deadly Class

Deadly Class

Deadly Class is sort of the flagship of Remender's current crop of Image books. Set in the '80s, it follows Marcus, a kid whose parents were killed by a man let out of an insane asylum because of President Reagan's deep cuts to mental health related services. He becomes a student at King's Dominion, a school for assassins and his life changes.

Full of sex, drugs, and rock n roll, Image's Deadly Class is Remender in top form, laying out intricate plots, amazing action sequences, and captivating characters. While it's full of '80s pop culture references, Deadly Class is more than just hollow '80s nostalgia.

4 Uncanny Avengers

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Uncanny Avengers took the Avengers and the X-Men and mixed them together after Avengers Vs X-Men almost tore the Marvel Universe apart. However, things get off to a rocky start, as the team is pitted against Red Skull, who has Xavier's brain and is now a powerful telepath, and a world destroying threat from the Apocalypse Twins.

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This book would have been higher on the list if it wasn't for AXIS, the weird event that saw Red Onslaught, an amalgam of the Red Skull and Onslaught, turn all the villains good, It was ill received for a variety of reasons, and the second volume of the book, keeps the concept of the X-Men and the Avengers together but doesn't reach the heights of the first volume.

3 Black Science

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Black Science tells the story of physicist Grant McKay. McKay discovers a way to move through the multiverse. He and his team make the first voyage and get much more than they bargained for. Things only get worse from there, as his family gets embroiled in a power struggle between him and his boss and dark forces working behind the scenes.

This Image series combines all of Remender's strengths into one package. Grant McKay is one of Remender's best characters- a man who has screwed up so much of his life and doesn't know how to fix it or if he even can. The character grounds the craziness of the plot and the family drama of the book shines through all the sci-fi sturm and drang.

2 Tokyo Ghost

Set in 2089, Tokyo Ghost takes place in a world where technology is king and giant corporations run the world. The populace is addicted to drugs and the Internet. Led Dent and Debbie Decay are sent to the last technology free place on Earth, Tokyo, but fall in love with simplicity... well, one of them does.

Remender teams with Sean Murphy for this amazing Image series. Tokyo Ghost is a visual feast of action and spectacle but there's a beating heart beneath that could only be supplied by a writer of Remender's talents and it doesn't get enough credit as some of his other Image works.

1 Uncanny X-Force

Uncanny X-Force

Uncanny X-Force is one of Remender's most loved books and the one that got him his bigger place at Marvel. Starring some of the deadliest X-Men and led by Wolverine, it saw the team taking on the biggest threats to mutantkind, including one of their own and planted the seeds for his Uncanny Avengers run.

This book was a tour de force of action and adventure and boasts what has become one of the best X-Force line-ups of all time. It's safe to say that without this book, Remender's stock wouldn't have risen as high.

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