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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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Safe Area Gorazde

Published in 2000 by Maltese-American cartoonist Joe Sacco, this graphic journalism work documents the brutal realities...

Journalism War Joe Sacco Fantagraphics

9.0 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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Scott Pilgrim

Created by Bryan Lee O'Malley, this indie comic series follows a young slacker musician in Toronto who must defeat his g...

Video Game Canadian Romance Oni Press

8.8 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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Safe Area Goražde

Safe Area Goražde is a 2000 graphic novel by Joe Sacco that utilizes his signature comics journalism to depict the bruta...

Journalism War Joe Sacco Fantagraphics

8.5 Great

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Astro City

Astro City is a superhero comic series created by Kurt Busiek in 1995, renowned for its humanistic exploration of superh...

Superhero Anthology Humanist Kurt Busiek

8.5 Great

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Southern Bastards

Created by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour, this comic explores the violent, football-obsessed culture of Craw County, a fi...

Crime Football Southern Image Comics

8.5 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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Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction

Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction is a sci-fi manga by Inio Asano that began in 2014, depicting ordinary teenage li...

Sci Fi Manga Teen Viz Media

8.5 Great

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King City

Created by Brandon Graham, this 2007 sci-fi graphic novel follows a slacker thief and his genetically altered cat naviga...

Adventure Sci Fi INDIE Image Comics

8.4 Great

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Prophet (Brandon Graham revival)

Published by Image Comics in 2012, this sci-fi series by Brandon Graham reimagines Rob Liefeld's 1990s superhero into a...

Sci Fi Epic Image Comics Brandon Graham

8.3 Great

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Pride of Baghdad

This 2006 graphic novel by Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon follows a pride of lions escaping the Baghdad Zoo during...

War Iraq Animals DC Vertigo

8.2 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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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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Pax Romana

A science fiction comic series written and illustrated by Jonathan Hickman in 2007, exploring a time-travel plot where t...

Sci Fi Time Travel Roman Image Comics

7.7 Good

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Multiple Warheads

Created by Brandon Graham, this fantasy comic series published by Oni Press follows an organ smuggler and a wolf-girl tr...

Sci Fi INDIE Quirky Image Comics

7.5 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