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Best Sci-Fi Comics Series

mike mike 5 Series Jun 6, 2026

The greatest science fiction comics series, from hard SF explorations of technology and humanity to space opera epics that rival the genre best novels in scope and imagination.

Saga (2012)

Image Comics

72 issues

1

Saga is the finest science fiction comic of the 21st century, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples building an entire universe around one family on the run in a story that uses genre to examine parenthood, war, and love.

Transmetropolitan (1997)

DC Comics

60 issues

2

Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson is one of the angriest and most prescient science fiction comics ever written, a future-city satire about a gonzo journalist that feels more relevant with every passing year.

Y: The Last Man (2002)

DC Comics

60 issues

3

Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan is a landmark science fiction comic about the last man alive after a plague kills every other male on Earth, a road trip across a transformed world that is as funny as it is moving.

Descender (2015)

Image Comics

32 issues

4

Descender is a beautifully rendered science fiction series about a universe where robots have been outlawed after a catastrophe, following a boy android who may hold the key to understanding what happened, painted in distinctive watercolors.

East of West (2013)

Image Comics

45 issues

5

East of West by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta is one of the most ambitious science fiction comics in recent memory, an alternate-history apocalypse story set across an America fractured into warring nations.

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