Best Image Comics Series

Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples is the defining Image Comics series of its era, a space opera about parenthood and war that immediately set a new benchmark for what creator-owned comics could achieve.

Invincible is Robert Kirkman love letter to superhero comics, a long-running series that starts as a coming-of-age story and grows into one of the most ambitious and emotionally devastating runs in the medium.

The Walking Dead is Robert Kirkman landmark zombie epic, a series that used the undead as backdrop to explore survival, community, and moral compromise across 193 issues of relentless human drama.

East of West by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta is one of the most ambitious creator-owned comics ever published, an alternate-history apocalypse story with a cast of dozens and a mythology that rewards patient readers.

Black Science by Rick Remender and Matteo Scalera is a breathless dimension-hopping adventure that evolves from pulp action into a profound examination of regret, consequence, and the cost of ambition.

Lazarus by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark is one of the most disciplined ongoing series Image has published, a near-future political thriller about genetically engineered soldiers that rewards readers who follow its dense world-building.

Descender by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen is one of the most beautiful science fiction comics of the 2010s, a robot boy on the run across a universe that has outlawed artificial life, painted in delicate watercolors.