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From 2014.
Sort of the Geoff Johns version of the Legion of Super-Heroes crossed with Firefly.
The writer is Stuart Moore, whom I actually liked a great deal circa One Year Later Firestorm. His approach to EGOs is pretty interesting, using a narrator with a vested interest much like Saga. He introduces two generations of a superhero team in the future (I don't particularly like the name of the team, and in conjunction, the title of the series, it must be said), and gradually we learn more about it. Because the focus isn't really on the team (either generation), you don't have to worry too much if superheroes aren't particularly your thing. This series is part of the new generation of science fiction comics first and foremost.
(The other thing I don't particularly like is that cover, but the art inside is better. Also, the logo looks like something Top Cow coughed up.)
Recently I figured out that comiXology's Guided View mode is very much a reader's friend. As its name suggests, it literally breaks each page into word-directed pieces, so there's far less trouble reading some of the peskier lettering jobs than might otherwise be the case. The other benefit, which EGOs amply demonstrates, is that sometimes the particular art style of the given series really pops. Guided View, which is to say, brings out the more sarcastic elements of Moore's script.
The guided view is better than trying to read the ones from Amazon where all you can do is zoom.
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