Science fiction Comics

What are some good science fiction comics? I recently tried reading Letter 44 and apart from the zero-g birth scene I was really underwhelmed

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If you want to read his science fiction comics you'll have to read more Japanese and European stuff. I know manga is a dirty word to some people on this board but the better Masamune Shirow comics (Appleseed) are the only comics I can think of that I'd describe as hard sci-fi.

The Incal

Ei8ht was pretty good.
Art by dude who did American Vampire.
Time Travel and Interdimensional Travel colorcoated in a pretty cool way.

Voracious pretty good time travel comic, too.

Big time chef lososes his business and his sister in a horrible fire, and after a year of feeling miserable inherits from his mysterious uncle A Time Machine.

He decides to get over his depression by starting a new resturant and cooking up dinosaurs. I swear it is better than my explaination is.

Is Earth War ever going to get a fucking trade? Is that Prophet omnibus ever going to be released?

So its an American take on Toriko?

Fear Agent, Black Science, Omega Men (though it's more like a fantasy story that takes place in space)

Last week

Never heard of it, but sounds neat.

Did it also have dinosaur cops hunting main guys?

I liked Wake (Sillage in French),
Prophet, and anything by Moebius.

Aldebarran Worlds is worth checking out, pic related, but some scenes stretched my suspension of disbelief to keep my interest beyond the first two books.

Depends what kind of story and style you prefer.

Transperceneige (Snowpiercer in English) might be too European for some tastes, but it's a readable and interesting, if dark, story.

Does Mars Attacks! count as scifi?
I mean I don't think they ever ever explain how any of the tech works,
And if things aren't explained and the story wants you to simply go with the flow it's just space fantasy.

The Cities of the Fantastic are nice as well.

No, but it does have a iron chef travelling the world slicing up dinosaurs and other giant fauna with his bare hands and preparing them into world class meals.

Well THAT'S on my To Read list now.

I read the English translation of The Invisible Frontier storytimed here, but was frankly underwhelmed. Nice art and architecture, but mundance character and story.
pic related is page in French

Obviously some are better than others, but I haven't read an Alien or Predator related comic I didn't like.
I'm sure there are some stinkers out there, but I haven't crossed em yet.

Okay, you read on of the lot. The rest of them are equally fantastic and equally focused on architecture. If that's not your thing, you need not bother.

Alien Legion

Joy Ride is still ongoing.

Story of a super authoritarian future and a girl decides to ditch Earth all together to party it up in the rest of the universe.
Tagging along is her best friend who really wants to get with her, and some soldier chick who accidently got stuck on the ship when it left.


It's okay, not my favorite story.
It is just good enough for me to wanna bother keeping up with it, but idk maybe give it a read.
Art is pretty good.

Mah nigga. That, and Starstruck.

Orc stain if you want more far future stuff like Prophet.

Another okay sci-fi ongoing is Space Battle Lunchtime.

A pastry chef is basically kidnapped to be the first Earth contestant in a interplanetary cooking competition show.
The art is cute and the story is fine. Lotta people say it feels more like webcomic level (which it prolly is but since you'll prolly download this instead of buy it basically is a webcomic to you or me)

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Maybe, but it's the good part of Tumblr.
The half with the good art (I mean a lot of the art we have comes from artists who have a tumblr).
Until the comic starts trying to have a message or a character who becomes some kinda cheap strawman, it's perfectly fine.

Anyone reading the recent Star Trek or Doctor Who comics?
Any of them, really.

I remember trying to keep an eye on them but so many kept coming out it was like a man planning to row across a lake and every month the lake gets closer to being an ocean.

Here is the chart.
Beside that, Pretty much everything by Métal Hurlant/Humanoïdes Associés.

"A" chart, not "the" chart. It's still just a work-in-progress that Sup Forums will never ever finish.

Pretty much none of the rec images have been updated in like 5+ years.

Even when it was created, it was still unfinished. The group of people working on it simply gave up.

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Read EuroComics.
UniversalWar1 ,
UniversalWar 2
Anything by Christopher Bec, mostly Prometheus , Sanctuary ,Carthage ans Siberia 56
Sillage,
The Shipwrecks of Yhtak,
Luc Orient.
Vagabond of the Limbs.
Nikopol trilogy,
The Scourge of the Gods,
Aldebaran/Antares /Betelgeuse
Incal (sort of...)
Etc-Grey area (2000AD)

>What's this from?
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Its cheesy as fuck, but I Starlight was a good bit of fun. Mark Millar and Goran Parlov.

Dude is Flash Gordon, comes home, no one believes him, then has to go back.

... Does this person draw a lot of MLP humanoid form porn?
It looks ... Familiar.

>Nikopol trilogy,
If you're going down that road, you might as well read The Horde as well.

Yes.

I love the trope of old hero pushed back into action.

Neat
Idk if to feel pride or shame recognizing the style.

I enjoyed it, but I felt like it was too short. It needed a couple more issues to flesh out the characters and the world.
I felt like it wrapped up a bit too cleanly as well, though we're getting a sequel.

This, but it's spinoff The Metabarons is actual God-tier.

Jodorowsky isn't human; he has become a living legend.

Jodorowsky is like Dali, but without all the pretension. He has a sort of gentleness and passion that's really lacking in a lot of directors today

Shame, definitely shame.

Last Days of an Immortal was pretty good. The main plot was a little meh but it had a lot of really cool and interesting alien cultures and technologies.

>this far in the thread
>no Dredd
10 years in the iso-cubes.

But the SU ones he did were SO HOT.

It's on my to read list I swear. At the very least once I'm done with grimjack.

Also EVERYONE GO READ GRIMJACK. Shits super good.

Dredd hasn't been good since the end of Trifecta a couple of years ago and the American comic IDW's putting out is absolute trash

oh fuck I love vore

Sounds like something that could be posted in Sup Forums or /d/

Don't forget posted on /ACO/ or /trash/ or even Sup Forums

The crazy or shocking stuff keeps getting more and more available.
Like it being commercialized.

Valerian (milestone of eurocomics sci-fi)
Aquablue (tarzan meets star wars, also has the french foreign legion in space, that is a welcome change from the usual marines)
Drunna (italian post-apoc erotic mindfuck)
Womoks (hilarious comic about a military unit)
All the Stephan Wul adaptations like Niourk or Fantastic Planet (excellent adaptations of excellent books)
El Eternauta (all hail Oesterheld)
Travis (good cyberpunk action)
Anything by Druillet (just enjoy the ride)

A surprisingly mature comic for teenagers I've discovered recently, about a bounty hunter academy.

Best thing to come out of canada in recent years. It's golden.

And it's called ...

And it's called I forgot the pic like a retard.

Let's pretend it was a clever plot to breed expectations, ok?

I'm sure those are like lightsaber lava daggers, but those seem pretty much like buttplugs.

Buttplugging your foe is a valid tactic for non-lethal takedown.

Jodo is ok as long as genital mutilation and disabled are your fetsih or you can stand it being shoved everywhere.
Incal was first and last book where he could still keep his fetishes in check.

I'm trying to remember a comic I only saw storytimed once. I was a sci fi think that tried to do some kind of maybe 70s era hardcore/heavy metal space opera thing, complete with all the cliches.

But the thing about it was it was absolutely god awful. And yet somehow still draws you in with its awfulness. It was like the Tails gets Trolled of sci fi comics. Like you couldn't tell if the creator was pretending to be retarded, or really was.

Need more details.
What was the plot. What did main dude look like?

The main dude was a sort of pastiche of Conan the Barbarian, Thorgoth, and "rip and tear big guts" Doom Guy.

He'd always win in these awful gory battles with various orc like monsters in the most ridiculously over the top way. He'd rescue a big tittied princess, who would usually die horribly before the next episode, or turn into a giant orc monster for the hero to fight. I guess it's sort of like that King Starking show, only a little less self-aware and tongue-in-cheek.

Finder, Sin-Eater by Carla Speed McNeil. Not-native American protag has adventures in a multicultural not-apocalyptic world.

As far as art style, I think it was traditional ink on paper. Don't think it was colored, but I could be misremembering. Fairly amateurish drawing, though it could have been a professional imitating bad art.

I just finished reading The Metabarons.

I'm not facetious when I say that it is possibly the single worst series I have read cover to cover.

Jodorowsky is the oldest horniest teenager alive. The Incal was good, but everything else (Megaplex, Technopriests) in that universe shits the bed almost immediately.

Hi, I'm the guy who suggested the Incal.
And Jodorowsky is a giant fucking asshole.
His movies take interesting ideas and concepts and reduce them to tripe shit.
I wouldn't piss on him if he were on fire.

Mobius was a true artist.

>Jodorowsky
>He has a sort of gentleness and passion
No he doesn't.
He's crude and unsubtle.

I still find it hard to believe Doxy got payed to do a legit page in a legit comic book.

Yeah.
Now all he has to do is get paid to do a legit page in a legit comic that isn't dog shit.

I'm not a big fan of these kind of comics but I thought the Phrophet Earth War or whatever series was good. It's some top notch lorefaggotry.

Is the one on the top left the bad guy ?

Bump

>Valerian

If Cara fucks this up, we need to exterminate her.

Watermelon McEvil smile? Yeah

Recent issues had him trick the main girl into being kidnapped by a rival cooking show, Cannibal Kitchen (where you battle your enemy chefs to the death and cook their corpses for the judges).
I'm a couple issues behind so idk how much detail of that they show. Part of me doubts anything this for all ages is gonna show real gore.

I agree with you. OP should check out PlaneteS, that's one of the most accurate sci-fi comics/manga out there.

If we're talking about western stuff, well, there's Fear Agent, which is mostly sci-fantasy.

Also, Transmetropolitan is a marvellous comic for sci-fi stuff.
It has foglets, spliced humans, a mall for religious prophets, just like how in Life of Brian they'd line up, interesting designs for traffic lights, people being unfrozen from years of sleep, etc. It does it quite well, it's one of my favorite comics of all time, because they make the future seem like something that is not necessarily bad, just different from ours.

>Transmetropolitan
>Manhattan Projects
>weird Morrison shit
>Batman: Year 100
>Life and death of Captain Marvel
>Y: the Last Man
>NO LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN

Come on, that has to count.

Where shoud it be?

I am bad at edits but here you go.

Is Y sci-fi?
I mean they never explained how everyone died, so it could be magic for all we know.
Though cloning is sci-fi I guess.
But vision quests aren't, and Y had like 2-3 of those.

Well, that was the point of my post.
That if you're gonna call Y: the Last Man, Batman: Year 100, The Filth sci-fi in the same post you have Manhattan Projects and Transmetropolitan, there's something seriously wrong with the list, and by this I mean you might as well add League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Fear Agent should be up there, and someone should start adding the stuff that was posted in this thread like the Incal, or sci-fantasy like Heavy Metal.

>Unironically reccing Crash and Digital Justice
Shit list

Which wasteland you guys prefer for you apocalyptic setting?

Desert wasteland? Ice tundra wasteland? Urban rubble wasteland? Reforestation urban rubble wasteland? DESSERT wasteland? All ocean wasteland? On surface normal city but really mind controlled citizens by evil higher force wasteland?

I prefer tundras. It has the majestic but ferocious animals, the beautiful landscapes and usually a 'bad ass' attitude culture in those parts. Gotta love it.
I've been reading the Spread for this reason.

You reading Frostbite from Vertigo right now?

All too familiar plot of "we tried to cure global warming but it worked too well and now it's another ice age"
But its pretty good. Also something about you might turn into a frostbite zombie if you get infected.

Not I, but I did enjoy Snowpiercer.
What about you, user? Which do you prefer?

Haven't actually read snowpiercer.

If it is half as good as the movie, I'll prolly love it.

It's... different. Both are great in their own special way.

Keeping on the manga train 2001 nights is fantastic and reasonably hard story of man's collective journey into space

>But its pretty good
No, it's not. The art is great but writing is shit.

Shit's a bit harsh. I mean it doesn't give me a boner, but nothing in the writing has been upsetting.

Speaking of animu and mango what's the name of that show about a space train that some kid with a laser Magnum rides in hopes of getting with some hot blonde twice his age and way out of his league?

In the US, an apocalypse would mean a wasteland of kudzu while in Europe blackberries would cover everything.

Galaxy Express 999

If your Irish heritage is strong enough, you might also enjoy his other other potatoe-related series, Queen Millennia.

Ok, I mean you can think that his work isn't good but why is he an asshole?

So in the apocalyptic future Europe would all be drunk on blackberry wine?

Thanks.

Cousin showed me a VHS of it when I was like 7-9. I always wanted the name to see it again and see if it was actually any good.