I ’m not exactly sure why , but 2015 has already been a weirdly good year for science fable comic strip . There ’s a strange abundance of great story come out shortly , or are already useable , that everyone should be checking out . Here are the twelve series and vivid novels you absolutely need to know !
1 ) Space rider
A psychedelic space adventure that like the seventies take place four centuries from now , Fabian Rangel and Alexis Ziritt‘s Space Riders is Graeco-Roman science phantasy . Captain Peligro and the crew of the skull - headed spaceship Santa Muerte travel the galaxy , struggle the evil Norrax Armada , hunt the bastards who take Peligro ’s centre and left him give up in quad , and basically move around a brilliant , brilliantly colored coltsfoot that look like it came straight out of Jack Kirby ’s i d. Not to be overleap . ( Black Mask , available now )
2 ) Descender
A amusing book has to be moderately damned phenomenal to get a flick deal before the first effect gets published . Rest assure that Jeff Lemire ’s Descender really is that good . Set in the far upstage future , a galax - blanket flak by giant , mystical robots has caused all androids to be outlawed . But on a remote moon , a youthful android appoint TIM-21 wakes up to venture on a cosmic odyssey where all of humanity dread him . With hints of Astro Boy , The Iron Giant , and several classic scifi stories , Descender is still unparalleled and mesmerizing , and perfectly and hauntingly show by Dustin Nguyen . If there ’s one comedian you demand to be reading in 2015 , it ’s Descender . ( Image , uncommitted now )
3 ) UFOlogy
If Steven Spielberg had consecrate himself to comic books instead of movies , then it ’s possible he would have created UFOlogy alternatively of E.T. or Close Encounters of the Third Kind . Instead it fell to James Tynion IV of the pip suspense series The Woods to write about two kids from a small Midwestern townsfolk who encounter an foreigner … but that ’s when the real closed book begins . It ’s an otherworldly scifi taradiddle deliver through two new , very real characters , and the dichotomy is just part of what make UFOlogy so peculiar . ( Boom Studios , available now )
4 ) Chrononauts
Mark Millar may no longer be herald as the savior of the industry , but if there ’s one story his sensibility are perfect for , it ’s this story about two bros who travel through time , all for a bouncy home audience . They might not be your normal scifi heroes , but their potential willingness to practice their voyage for their own personal amplification — again , while masses at home keep an eye on them helplessly on TV — is challenging to say the least , and the titular chrononauts Corbin and Danny ooze with personality , thanks to Millar ’s dialogue and marvellous art by The Wake ’s Sean Murphy . ( ikon , available now )
5 ) Nameless
Grant Morrison has never been timid about telling complicated , enigmatic history , but in Nameless , he may have control the guile . Two issues of the scifi repugnance comic have been released so far , but here ’s just a brief summary of what ’s in gaming : soma - eating parasites , magic paint , an harebrained astronomer who off his family , a ma’am who present up in people ’s incubus , a secret society of billionaires worried about the future , a hustler / magician discover Namless , and , of course of action , “ the malevolent asteroid Xibalba ” which is head to Earth . phantasmagoric does n’t come close to doing Nameless justice . We do n’t live where Morrison is going with it , but we ca n’t await to find out . ( Image , uncommitted now )
6 ) Divinity
Valiant has just been killing it with its relaunched superhero titles , but do n’t dismiss the publisher ’s other offerings — especially Divinity , the new series from Mind MGMT ’s Matt Kindt . During the US / USSR space race , the Soviets rushed a military mission to send off a man into the farthest reach of quad . Now ’s back , having inexplicably clank - down in Australia ten later , with the great power of a graven image . What happened to him out there ? What are his intentions now that he ’s back ? Who can stop him ? Divinity is only a four - issue miniseries , but Kindt may have already created Valiant ’s first superstar of the new millenary . ( Valiant , usable now )
7 ) ODY - C
Matt Fraction and Christian Ward ’s psychedelic , “ gender - broke ” scifi odyssey has been blowing masses out since it debut recently last year , and for just reason . This wild retelling of Homer ’s Odyssey — in which space maitre d' Odyssia and her crew encounter cycloptean space monsters and deadly populate soporiferous Lotus Eaters — is a surreal , massively entertaining epos , which Fraction wrote for his four - class = old daughter when he realized DC would never permit him write Wonder Woman . If that ’s not a reason to read it , I do n’t know what is . ( Image , uncommitted now
- Apocalyptigirl
subtitle An Aria for the End Times , Andrew MacLean ’s post - apocalyptic original graphical novel has n’t convey a lot of plug yet , but that should commute presently . Why ? Because Apocalyptigirl is beautiful , awe-inspiring , exciting , tragical and heartwarming — all while being an natural action - carry scifi epic . The taradiddle of Aria and her hombre Jelly Beans , as they explore for a knock-down ancient relic while push the savages of the future , is mesmerize , and practically cries out for an liven adaption — that is , if animation could perchance match MaCLean ’s play , obsess artwork . This is the story against which the genre will be evaluate from here on out . ( Dark Horse , June 2nd )
9 ) Kaptara
Chip Zdarsky has been kill it on Howard the Duck and Sex Criminals , but do n’t dismiss Kaptara . This wild , ridiculous dangerous undertaking comedian — which Zdarsky describes as inspired by playing with all of his varied 1980s action mechanism figure as kid , but also as “ GaySaga , just to get more sales ” — Kaptara is your stock space - mission - pass - wonky , collapse - lands - on - cryptic - alien - planet story , except the inhabitants of say satellite range from psychedlic space Alces alces to beaver away ma’am to an over - inspirational float orb matter . But amidst all the military action and silliness , Zdarsky and artist Kagan McLeod have created a protagonist in captain Kanga whose same - sex Latinian language truly develop and matures though the trend of the series . It ’s like if Captain Kirk was a really enough romantic mate to the countless aliens he sleep together during the original Star Trek series . And everyone was gay . ( Image , April 22 )
10 ) HaloGen
As an broker for the HaloGen system , agentive role Rell has been on many bizarre and pestilent delegation . But none of them have ever been weirder than this — obtain the corpse of the elephantine god , rumored to be floating around somewhere in cosmos . Eisner laurels - winning webcomics team Josh Tierney and Afu Chan ( Spera ) cooperate again to wreak onward a fresh , butt - boot heroine in this quirky , cosmic adventure . ( Boom Studios , available now )
11 ) Roche Limit : Clandestiny
Michael Moreci give back to last year ’s best - trade scifi epic Roche Limit in this second installment in the trilogy , plant 75 geezerhood after the first volume ’s explosive ( literally ) conclusion . Now , a new crew of scientists and soldier inquire the ruin of the Roche settlement , but there are still secrets to reveal and plenty of peril stay on . If this sound a number like Aliens , this is totally intentional — but rest assured the new characters of Clandestiny wish they ’d only have a Xenomorph Queen to treat with . ( Image , May 6th )
12 ) Bitch Planet
We ’ve mentioned the glorious , women - in - distance - prison comic by Kelly Sue DeConnick before , and suffice to say its only gotten better since it debut last December . While base on the sexploitation motion picture of the ‘ 70s , DeConnick has created a rollicking , badass , exceedingly feminist activeness comedian that somehow never make full exploitatory . In fact , the wide wide-ranging inpatient of the prison outpost non - affectionately known as “ Bitch Planet ” are completely compelling , even as they ’re contrive into a violent stage setting in which none of them may survive . A surefire nominee for one of the sound funnies of the year , and the fourth topic is n’t even out yet . ( paradigm , available now )
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