Nexus
Horatio Hellpop is Nexus, a man in the twenty-fifth century with enormous powers, and he has to pay for them.
Start with Nexus Omnibus, Volume 1
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Creator-owned science fiction
When writers and artists started owning their own work, science fiction comics got weirder, braver and a good deal more interesting. Most of this section comes from Image and DC's Vertigo line, and covers space opera, dystopia, cyberpunk, time travel and at least one robot romance. If you've read a lot of SF novels and wondered where the comics equivalent is, it's here.
American Flagg!
In 2031 the American government has decamped to Mars, leaving the country to be run by a shopping-mall corporation.
Start with American Flagg! Volume 1, the 2008 definitive hardcover
Ronin
A masterless samurai in feudal Japan is killed alongside the demon who murdered his lord, and centuries later is reborn in a decaying New York, inside the body of a psychic young man with…
Start with Ronin
Star Slammers
The Star Slammers are a race of mercenaries bred for war and hired out across the galaxy, and they are very good at their jobs.
Start with Walter Simonson's Star Slammers: The Complete Collection
Finder
Jaeger Ayers is a half-breed tracker and a professional sin-eater, taking on other people's guilt in a future world of domed cities, rival clans and ancient customs.
Start with The Finder Library, Volume 1
Transmetropolitan
Spider Jerusalem is a foul-mouthed, drug-guzzling, bowel-disrupting gonzo journalist, very much in the tradition of Hunter S.
Start with Transmetropolitan, Book One
Planetary
Planetary is an organisation of "mystery archaeologists" who investigate the secret history of the twentieth century, and the secret history turns out to be made of pulp fiction: giant…
Start with Planetary, Book One
Ministry of Space
At the end of the Second World War, Britain grabs the German rocket scientists before the Americans can get to them, and goes on to win the space race.
Start with Ministry of Space
Y: The Last Man
Something kills every mammal on Earth with a Y chromosome at the same moment, except for Yorick Brown, an amateur escape artist, and his pet capuchin monkey, Ampersand.
Start with Y: The Last Man, Book One
Orbiter
Ten years after the space shuttle Venture disappeared, it lands at an abandoned Kennedy Space Center, covered in something that looks a lot like skin.
Start with Orbiter
DMZ
A second American Civil War has broken out, and Manhattan is caught in the middle, a demilitarised zone left to fend for itself.
Start with DMZ, Book One
Saga
Alana and Marko are soldiers from opposite sides of a vast interplanetary war: she has wings, he has horns, and they have just had a baby, which neither side is prepared to allow.
Start with Saga, Volume One
Prophet
In the 1990s, Prophet was a Rob Liefeld character, best known for his muscles and his pouches.
Start with Prophet, Volume 1: Remission
The Manhattan Projects
The Manhattan Project was not just about the atomic bomb.
Start with The Manhattan Projects, Volume 1
The Private Eye
In 2076, after the cloud burst and everyone's secrets were leaked, the internet has been abandoned and privacy has become a religion.
East of West
In an alternate America split into seven nations, three of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have been reborn to bring about the end of the world.
Start with East of West, Volume 1: The Promise
Black Science
Grant McKay is a scientist who has built a device that can punch through to other dimensions.
Start with Black Science, Volume 1
Lazarus
In the near future, the world has been carved up among a handful of wealthy Families.
Start with Lazarus, Volume 1: Family
Alex + Ada
Alex is lonely, and his grandmother, who has an android partner of her own, gives him a lifelike android called Ada for his birthday.
Start with Alex + Ada, Volume 1
Low
The Sun is expanding, and humanity has retreated to cities deep under the sea, where most people have given up hope.
Start with Low, Volume 1: The Delirium of Hope
Trees
Ten years ago, vast alien structures landed all over the world. They are not ships and they are not weapons; they are more like trees, and they do nothing.
Start with Trees, Volume 1: In Shadow
ODY-C
Homer's Odyssey reimagined as a psychedelic space opera, with most of the male characters replaced by women, and the heroine, Odyssia, trying to get home after the fall of Troy across a…
Start with ODY-C, Volume 1
Descender
Ten years ago, vast robots appeared out of nowhere and devastated the planets of the United Galactic Council.
Start with Descender, Volume One: Tin Stars
Paper Girls
On the morning after Halloween in 1988, four twelve-year-old girls are delivering newspapers in a small Ohio town when they get caught up in a war between time travellers.
Start with Paper Girls, Volume One
Injection
A group of eccentric British experts, including a scientist, a cunning man and a man who is a kind of modern Sherlock Holmes, once decided that the twenty-first century was going to be…
Start with Injection, Volume 1
The Weatherman
Nathan Bright is a popular television weatherman on a terraformed Mars, a man with a great smile and no memory of anything before a few years ago.
Start with The Weatherman, Volume 1
Invisible Kingdom
Vess is a young woman who has joined a strict religious order. Grix is the captain of a cargo ship working for the galaxy's most powerful corporation.
Start with Invisible Kingdom, Volume 1: Walking the Path
Decorum
A young courier with a bad attitude is recruited by an elegant assassin who believes that killing people is no excuse for bad manners, and is trained in a secret society of female assassins.
Start with Decorum