swap_horiz The Incal 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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Sandman

The Sandman is a critically acclaimed graphic novel series by Neil Gaiman and Sam Kieth published by Vertigo Comics. It...

Fantasy Mythology DC Comics Neil Gaiman

9.5 Brilliant

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The Arrival

“The Arrival” is a contemporary graphic novel by Shaun Tan exploring themes of migration and displacement. Through metic...

Contemporary Atmospheric Migration Wordless

9.3 Excellent

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Arzach

Arzach is a groundbreaking French comic by artist Moebius featuring a silent warrior riding a pterodactyl, renowned for...

Sci Fi Classic French Wordless

8.9 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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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

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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

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Low

Low is a sci-fi comic series by Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini following a family exploring the dark depths of a devast...

Hope Sci Fi Underwater Image Comics

7.2 Good

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Ether

Written by Matt Kindt with art by David Rubin, this 2016 fantasy comic follows a scientist who travels to a magical real...

Fantasy Sci Fi Portal Dark Horse

7.2 Good

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Girl in Landscape

A science fiction coming-of-age graphic novel about a young girl whose family settles on an alien frontier planet, explo...

Sci Fi Coming Of Age Novel Literary

6.5 Fair