Modern Scifi Comics

The Anarchist League of Scientists has lost their leader, the most recent victim of the Pillar's violently random jumps through the Eververse...but are they really random? As the survivors fight their way through a world where magic and science are one and the same, the secrets of their predicament slowly come to light...and illuminate a terrible truth.Collects BLACK SCIENCE #7-11.

Tony Chu is a detective with a secret. A weird secret. Tony Chu is cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also means he''s a hell of a detective - as long as he doesn''t mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to figure out whodunit and why. He''s been brought on by the Special Crimes Division of the FDA, the most powerful law enforcement agency on the planet, to investigate their strangest, sickest, and most bizarre cases.

In the series that writer MARK MILLAR (HIT GIRL) called "the best comic of 2018," rural mystery and urban horror collide in the second volume of the runaway best-selling series by JEFF LEMIRE and ANDREA SORRENTINO, the acclaimed creative duo behind Green Arrow and Old Man Logan.The lives of a reclusive young man obsessed with a conspiracy in the city's trash, and a washed up Catholic Priest arriving in a small town full of dark secrets become dangerously intertwined around the mysterious legend of The Black Barn -- an otherworldly building that is alleged to have appeared in both the city and the small town, throughout history, leaving death and madness in its wake.Collects GIDEON FALLS #7-11

Visit the strange and fantastic world of The Spire, where an inexplicable murder has turned an impossible tower of a city upside down.The Spire is a mountain of metal and stone, a vast city that rises out of the middle of the radioactive desert. Filled with twisting tunnels, grinding elevators, and ancient machinery, it is home to over a million human and non-human residents. Sha, the last of the species known as the Medusi, is responsible for keeping the hodgepodge of forgotten technology and new biology safe as Commander of the City Watch. But when a string of grisly murders are committed just as a new Baroness of the Spire is about to be sworn in, Sha will have to find the killer and bring that individual to justice. With the new Baroness housing a deep hatred of non-humans, Sha will have more than one enemy at her back as a mystery buried in the history of the Spire unravels around her. Written by Simon Spurrier (X-Men: Legacy) and illustrated by Jeff Stokely (Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Witches), the celebrated creative team of Six-Gun Gorilla, The Spire is a sprawling fantasy noir that Vulture called one of the “Ten Best Comic Books of 2015.”

"The ghost of Tokyo has come for you all."Remender and company don't disappoint. I may be biased toward his philosophical-psychological bent, but his writing is incredibly thoughtful if sometimes purposefully crude to serve his allegory. Mostly though, I'm super satisfied with how this mini-series ended. Dark and tragic, but surprisingly with hope.If Eden is found, it's only natural that we destroy it. At the end of Volume 1, Remender left us on a huge cliffhanger: Led was forced to juice up or die while Deb was equally forced to inject herself with Sensei Kazumi's godlike anti-tech serum, followed by the detonation of a massive bomb which destroyed Tokyo and revealed Led standing in his full constabulary gear and motorcycle. Talk about a thrill ride. Talk about relapse. While Volume 1 was moderately dark, violent, and perverse, Volume 2 takes it further. Like being severely pornographic. I'm talking genitalia, blowjobs, fetishes, even necrophilia. It crosses, nay, obliterates that line. Yet contrastingly this volume is also more fun and spiritually transcendent. Like the opening scene with the nymphomaniacal Miss Muffet and Little Jack Horner. Or Davey discussing his plan in cyberspace while go-karting with Mao, Hitler, and Stalin. Or nature taking back the world, led by our female protagonist."Every cent you earn is torn from the flesh of the earth."Satisfyingly and tragically, we get that change necessary for main characters. Led, Deb, and Davey (as I suspected) all transcend themselves. What I enjoyed about their journeys is the unpredictability. Davey's trajectory was fairly average for a super villain, although the cyberpunk/video game slant is very cool. But Led and Deb continue their complexity, their story full of love and tragedy, numbness and clarity. I like that even in the end Deb still isn't 100% pure, still human, still vulnerable. And damn it, Led is a brilliant character to watch on a downward spiral. Can't say I'm surprised, but I think he finds redemption. So there you have it. 10 issues come and gone. I wish there was more. But Remender did his damndest in less than 300 pages, writing a dark electric world full of scathing allegory, creeps and samurai, nihilism and romanticism. Sean Murphy and Matt Hollingsworth are still my favorites, having mind-blowingly brought this world and its players to life, dark and mechanical, light and arboreal.

The Head Lopper, Norgal, and the nagging severed head of Agatha Blue Witch arrive on the Isle of Barra to find it overrun with beasts; minions of the Sorcerer of the Black Bog. When Queen Abigail hires Norgal and Agatha to slay the Sorcerer, our heroes trek across the island relieving the horrors of their heads - and playing right into the hands of a master manipulator.Collects issues 1 through 4.

People need to stfu about Saga & Y the Last Man, this here is what us real sci-fi lovers have been sitting around and craving; instead of humanizing all the aliens into hackneyed anime hentai and wanna be Buffy the Vampire Slayer yuck-yucks, this does a fair sight of alien-i-zing all the humans and giving you meaty plots (literally & figuratively) that you can sink your teeth into and GOD BLESS YOU unapologetic seriousness that assumes you have brains in your skull or perhaps have already read a smidge of good fiction. I'm a little confused and I'm loving every second of it! It's also well drawn and not over-colored (there is something left to the imagination; coloring takes "mood" into effect like an old time comic and it's not done in any "trendy" techniques either). I'm floored. Shocked anything this original got published in this day and age.By the same token, the tale isn't just yanking your chain, you can tell there is serious storytelling and plot going on here; it's not just weird for the sake of weird. I actually started with #3 and am working my way to #1 and #2. I don't recommend that, but if you can read #3 without the others, then my son you are indeed a hardcore sci-fi geek. Be proud. And drop me a line.

On le sait désormais, derrière les différentes écoles de magie se cachent en réalité de nombreux cartels bancaires clandestins. Un monde secret où les oligarques russes, les papes noirs, les aristocrates américains et les hommes de main du Fond monétaire international contrôlent notre société et usent de tous les moyens à leur disposition pour nous maintenir à notre place. L'argent sale peut presque tout acheter, mais quel genre de personne recrute-t-on avec ça ? "Demands every fiber of your attention, The Black Monday Murders is a bit out of step with current titles and that makes it that much better." --Fangoria

A few years ago, a public/private partnership between the British Government and a multinational company saw five clever people placed in university-owned offices and allowed to do whatever they liked. It was called the Cultural Cross-Contamination Unit, and the idea was that it would hothouse new thinking and new patents. Five actual geniuses, all probably crazy, very eccentric, put in one place and given carte blanche to think about ways to approach and change the future. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?They did A Crazy Thing, which was referred to as The Injection. A mysterious Thing that they did in order to make the 21st Century better and stranger. It got out. It got loose into the fabric of the 21st Century, whatever it was, and now things are getting weird and ugly, faster and faster.So a few years have passed. They've all gone their separate ways, into separate "jobs" that allow them to follow and sometimes deal with the repercussions of The Injection. We are in the period where the toxic load of The Injection is at such a level that events that are essentially paranormal in nature are coming faster and faster, headed towards a point where humanity won't easily be able to live on the planet any more. Not a Singularity of glory, but an irretrievable constant blare of horror coming too thick and fast for anything to deal with.From the creators of Moon Knight: From the Dead: the story of five mad geniuses trying to save us all from themselves.Collecting: Injection 1-5

A volume that goes more in depth into the politics... and it’s bad-a**.What’s it about?This volume pretty much focuses on the current political stuff happening in the world of East of West.Why it gets 5 stars:The story is very interesting, especially in this volume since it focuses more on the (very in depth) political drama part of the series.The art is still freaking amazing!All the characters are very interesting.Even though this focuses more on politics there’s lots of exciting action! I especially loved the bath scene, so intense, bloody and well drawn (no pun intended)!This volume has some great world building stuff and great dialogue!Overall:This volume proves that politics can get crazy AF! I love this series and this volume is just so freaking good! I still highly recommend this series.5/5

We live in a world where we've never seen a monster, and The Magic Order is the reason we sleep safely in our beds. Magic meets the Mob in The Magic Order, as five families of magicians -- sworn to protect our world for generations -- must battle an enemy who's picking them off one by one. By day, they live among us as our neighbors, friends and co-workers, but by night they are the sorcerers, magicians and wizards that protect us from the forces of darkness...unless the darkness gets them first.Collects THE MAGIC ORDER #1-6.

Everything you thought you knew about witches is wrong. They are much darker, and they are much more horrifying. Wytches takes the mythology of witches to a far creepier, bone-chilling place than readers have dared venture before. When the Rooks family moves to the remote town of Litchfield, NH to escape a haunting trauma, they're hopeful about starting over. But something evil is waiting for them in the woods just beyond town. Watching from the trees. Ancient...and hungry.Collecting: Wytches 1-6

The Anarchist League of Scientists dive deeper into the Onion than ever before. Now veterans of inter-dimensional travel, the team begins to realize how damaging their actions are on the fabric of reality. No longer content with merely fixing the Pillar and finding a way back home, they vow to uphold a new ideal: leave every dimension they visit better off than how they found it.Collects BLACK SCIENCE #12-16.

It’s hard out here for a masked vigilante killer.The first volume set up the premise of a young man named Dylan saved from an attempted suicide from a demon who now demands that he kill at least one bad person a month or forfeit his own life. While reluctant at first Dylan is getting better, if not downright enthusiastic, about murdering jerkfaces. Unfortunately, this makes him a little cocky and sloppy, and he soon has both the NYPD and the Russian mob on his trail. And of course there’s still a distinct possibility that the cheese is slipping off Dylan’s mental cracker, and that there is no demon.What I’m really enjoying about this is the way that it pops the fantasy balloon of gun toting vigilantes being the best way to clean up the streets. Dylan may have a certain knack for finding and killing assholes, but it’s always a messy and bloody business that ultimately solves nothing and creates more cycles of escalating violence. Maybe best of all is that Brubaker and Phillips have stripped out any notions that this is ‘cool’. There’s no smirking Charles Bronson blowing away punks nor a Punisher with a bad ass skull logo on his chest dispensing street justice. It’s just a scared and probably disturbed young man with a ski mask and a gun causing a lot of unintentional damage to everyone around him whether they deserve it or not.

SOUTHERN BASTARDS meets American Gods in a high-stakes fantasy series that masterfully blends high-octane action and jaw-dropping worldbuilding.In GOD COUNTRY, readers meet Emmett Quinlan, an old widower rattled by dementia. Emmett isn't just a problem for his children--his violent outbursts are more than the local cops can handle. When a tornado levels his home--as well as the surrounding West Texas town--a restored Quinlan rises from the wreckage.An enchanted sword at the eye of the storm gives him more than a sound mind and body, however. He's now the only man who can face these otherworldly creatures the sword has drawn down to the Lone Star State...In GOD COUNTRY salvation is a double-edged sword. Collects GOD COUNTRY #1-6

The Isles of Los Angeles 2089: humanity is addicted to technology. Getting a virtual buzz is the only thing left to live for, and gangsters run it all. Who do these gangsters turn to when they need their rule enforced? Constables Led Dent and Debbie Decay are about to be given a job that will force them out of the familiar squalor of LA and into the last tech-less country on Earth: The Garden Nation of Tokyo. Collecting: Tokyo Ghost 1-5

In the immortal words of the celebrated thespian, Keanu Reeves . . ."Woah"This series continues to impress with volume two. It is the perfect mix of historical fiction and sci-fi horror. It is suspenseful. It is funny. It is gruesome. A little part of me really wishes the exploration of the American West was just like this.I'm still loving the art. For the most part, the panels have a bit of a sepia aura to add to the historical feel - as if pulled straight from the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition. But, then, every few pages there is a full page image with intense colors and dramatic presentation highlighting one of the key horrors being encountered. Great stuff!This title is just great, creepy, horror-filled fun. If you are looking for a graphic novel that is a complete escape to enjoyable reading, give this one a shot.

Because retailers, readers, and ROBERT KIRKMAN demanded it, the online sensation from PanelSyndicate.com’s BRIAN K. VAUGHAN (SAGA, PAPER GIRLS) and MARCOS MARTIN (The Amazing Spider-Man, Doctor Strange: The Oath) is finally coming to print with this gorgeous deluxe hardcover edition, presented in the story’s original widescreen format!Years after the digital cloud “bursts” and exposes all of our worst secrets, THE PRIVATE EYE is set in an inevitable future where everyone has a secret identity. Following an unlicensed P.I. who is thrust into the most important case of his life, this sci-fi mystery explores the nature of privacy with frightening prescience.Collects THE PRIVATE EYE #1-10