swap_horiz Arzach Alternatives

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The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes is a seminal collection of comic strips created by Bill Watterson. It presents the imagin...

Classic All Ages Bill Watterson Andrews Mcmeel

9.7 Brilliant

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The Incal

The Incal is a seminal French sci-fi graphic novel by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius, following John DiFool in a surre...

Sci Fi French Jodorowsky Surreal

9.3 Excellent

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Lone Wolf and Cub

Lone Wolf and Cub is a landmark samurai manga created by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima in 1970, following an assassin an...

Classic Manga Samurai Dark Horse

9.2 Excellent

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All-Star Superman

All-Star Superman is a 2005 comic series by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, widely celebrated as a definitive, modern...

Classic Optimistic DC Comics Superman

9.1 Excellent

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Bone: Out from Boneville

The first volume of Jeff Smith's epic fantasy comic series following the Bone cousins' exile from Boneville into a myste...

Fantasy Classic Scholastic All Ages

8.8 Great

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Fourth World Omnibus

Published by DC Comics, this comprehensive hardcover collection compiles Jack Kirby's legendary 1970s Fourth World saga...

Classic Superhero DC Comics Cosmic

8.7 Great

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We3

We3 is a poignant 2004 graphic novel by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely about three kidnapped pets weaponized as cyborg...

Sci Fi Emotional Animals Grant Morrison

8.6 Great

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East of West

Created by Jonathan Hickman, this sci-fi Western comic portrays an alternate-history United States where the Four Horsem...

Sci Fi Epic Alternate History Image Comics

8.5 Great

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New X-Men

Written by Grant Morrison in the early 2000s, this Marvel Comics series revitalized the X-Men franchise with sci-fi conc...

Sci Fi Marvel 2000S Grant Morrison

8.4 Great

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X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills

A landmark 1982 Marvel graphic novel by Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson where the X-Men battle a televangelist who in...

Classic Marvel Civil Rights X Men

8.3 Great

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Chew

An Image Comics series created by John Layman and Rob Guillory in 2009, following a cibopath detective who gets psychic...

Sci Fi Crime Image Comics John Layman

8.2 Great

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Valerian and Laureline

Valerian and Laureline is a highly influential French space opera comic by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières that...

Sci Fi French Space Mezieres

8.0 Great

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Bitch Planet

This feminist sci-fi comic series by Kelly Sue DeConnick depicts a dystopian future where non-compliant women are impris...

Sci Fi Satire Feminist Image Comics

7.9 Good

14

The Manhattan Projects

Written by Jonathan Hickman, this sci-fi comic reimagines the famous scientists of the Manhattan Projects as deeply flaw...

Sci Fi Dark Comedy Alternate History Image Comics

7.9 Good

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2001 Nights

A Japanese hard science fiction manga by Yukinobu Hoshino, serialized in the 1980s, depicting humanity's expansion into...

Sci Fi Space Manga Viz Media

7.9 Good

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Fear Agent

Created by Rick Remender, this sci-fi comic follows Heath Huston, an alien exterminator dealing with the trauma of Earth...

Action Sci Fi Retro Rick Remender

7.8 Good

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Why I Killed Peter

Created by Olivier Ka and Alfred, this 2008 autobiographical graphic novel details the author's traumatic childhood expe...

French Memoir Religion Olivier Ka

7.8 Good

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Biomega

A cyberpunk horror manga by Tsutomu Nihei published in 2004, featuring intense action as a lone agent fights a virus tha...

Sci Fi Manga Dystopian Viz Media

7.7 Good

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DEPT. H

A mystery comic series written and drawn by Matt Kindt in 2016, following a detective investigating a murder at a deep-s...

Sci Fi Mystery Underwater Dark Horse

7.6 Good

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Tokyo Ghost

Tokyo Ghost is an Image Comics series by Rick Remender depicting a dystopian, technology-obsessed future and a pair of c...

Sci Fi Dystopian Cyberpunk Image Comics

7.4 Good