Does anyone know of any comics that feature a space opera or another very impressive far-future SF world?
Does anyone know of any comics that feature a space opera or another very impressive far-future SF world?
DC Comics has a great mini-series going, right now: Adam Strange written by Andy Diggle with some of the most beautiful art by Pascal Ferry.
Humanoids publishing has a decent amount space opera stuff, too.
I can't recommend The Ballad of Halo Jones by Alan Moore enough.
Though it's not Space Opera as such, you may want to have a look though Ellis' Orbiter.
I know warewolf likes Crossgen's Negation, though I wasn't tempted to pick it up myself.
Last edited by fluffy bunny; November 7th, 2004 at 05:01 AM.
Ocean by Warren Ellis is a scifi comic, it's a limited series of about 5 issues I believe. Two are out now.
Planetary is also has a very strong scifi feel to it as well. Again, by Warren Ellis. Though, it's on it's 20+ issue, you can find them all in graphic novel form. This is one title that you'll appreciate reading back to back. Love this one.
Keyoke
Negation kicked ass!!! Too bad the company went bankrupt...Originally Posted by fluffy bunny
Can't think of any true space opera being published right now...
To reiterate my earlier post:
Adam Strange written by Andy Diggle with some of the most beautiful art by Pascal Ferry
There is a Starjammers comic from Marvel, which has lots of fighting, weird looking aliens, political intrigue and is written by Kevin J. Anderson.
Not one of my favourites, but it's okay.
Adam Strange -beautiful art and interesting story.
Ocean and Planetary - both written by Warren Ellis and the art in both is breath taking, Sprouse(Ocean?) and Cassidy on Planetary.
Planetary is a superhero book (more or less). It qualifies as neither space opera nor far future sci-fi.
Well, I'll have to disagree with Warewolf on Planetary. Sure, it definitely has a super hero feel to it, but, I still think it falls under the realm of scifi more so than a super hero book.
But, you should just pick it up. It's a great read! Conspiracies abound!
Keyoke
Warewolf, has Crossgen stopped publishing completely?
Yeah, they've pretty much desolved.
ANother fantastic scifi comic, even though it is mostly a superhero comic, is the Fantastic Four. FF do great space opera.
Yup, they auctioned off all their properties a couple weeks ago. A subsidiary of Disney owns all of them now. They're going to be publishing Abadazad (with DeMatteis and Ploog still aboard) as a series of illustrated children's books. Haven't heard anything about the other properties, though. I hope they don't languish like the Valiant and Ultraverse stuff has.
The best SF comics I've read are those of Yukinobu Hoshino, inexplicably only three have ever been translated into English.
1 - 2001 Nights - a series of short stories relating mankind's advancement into space, collected by Viz in 3 volumes.
2 - Saber Tiger - 1 volume collected around the same time.
3 - The Two Faces of Tomorrow - Dark Horse Comics 13 part adaptation of the novel by James P. Hogan.
Not only wonderful art but wonderful Science Fiction.
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