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There may be other authors writing sci-fi comics, but few with quite as much love (sticky shameful perverted love) for Science . Within the past decade, he's given us:
Planetary - You'd be hard pressed to find another series anywhere more self-referential to the history of comics and sci-fi, spanning everything from Jules Verne, Tarzan, and Doc Savage to giant Tokyo monsters, The Fantastic 4, and the evolution of John Constantine into King Mob.
Global Frequency - Another great mostly-episodic series spanning all manner of sci-fi subjects, from killer cyborgs to memetic viruses.
Desolation Jones - Essentially Jerry Cornelius meets The Prisoner. Slightly less sci-fi than some of the other titles, but 'Y the Last Man' is up there, so I'm including it anyways.
Plus Ocean, Nextwave, New Universal, Doktor Sleepless, Ministry of Space, Ignition City, and probably several more that I'm forgetting.
12/14/09
I posted to much the same, damn shame there's no Ellis on here. But you did forget one important one (given when it ended) Transmetropolitan.
But I'd definitely agree that both Planetary and Global Frequency should have been contenders. Lets hope the Global Freq show turns out to be as good as the GN, because it is the perfect setup for an Outer Limits style show, and I cannot wait for it to get going.
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Someone dismissed Batman Year 100, but I liked it.
12/13/09
Does Batman RIP count as Sci Fi?
and Mr. Morrison already has 2 books on the list.
IHMO All Star Superman was probably the best overall cape comic of the decade. Just Amazing.
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Maybe it is because I travel a lot and i just don't get a chance to spend days getting to know a person intimately (in the learning-their-life-story-type of way) but what about the exploration of a culture, setting, and just getting into the deep-weirdness of a new place. Perhaps the majority of new writers (and maybe now readers) just don't have the skills/experiences to really world-build (or embrace it) and thus immerse oneself in truly exotic settings, cultures -- because maybe they did not think (or cannot-afford) traveling as an important part of their development? who knows? The same with science. I know this has been bandied around a bit - but its comparably easy - in the sense that a lot of people do it (not that it doesn't take years of experience to attain a certain level of expertise) - to make up compelling characters and place them over/within a mediocre, somewhat-underdeveloped setting/time-place. It almost feels like you can just substitute the space station interior for the fourth planet from Alpha Prime for the New York city of 2131 for the downtown of Tokyo of 20 years ago, with only minor sub-details. The setting doesn't seem to come alive -and worse, does not make a difference to the way the characters act. Maybe one could argue that people need something they can relate to so they can really get into a story - like a real-life character -- maybe -- but we're scifi people and we thrive on weird, we prosper in fringe, we eschew comfort, we reject the mundane and typical and everyday in our 'escape' scifi, ne? Perhaps character-driven content comes out as being more polished and literary? Perhaps the desire to have a larger audience and thus make us seem that we're more accepted drives the desire to 'put up' with this type of content. This may end up to be a wider criticism of scifi as a genre, but... wow, the epic is dead or maybe just like authentic scifi (whatever that means), it still continues to exist in the outliers of mainstream, avoiding bigscreen features and New York bestseller lists.. well at least having the internet helps me find them.. so few as there are.
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Pluto, Planetes, Y: The Last Man definately belong up there.
Warren Ellis' run on Thunderbolts, Kirkman's Invcible (Walking Dead is better SciFi material but Invicible mixes things up more,) Matt Fraction's Invincible Iron Man, The Umbrella Academy, Ed Brubaker's Sleeper along with Brubaker and Fraction's run on Immortal Iron Fist just off the top of my head were my favorite reads of the last 10 years.
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Why can't they all be that good?
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Hell, that first issue of Ultimates is probably the single most cinematic comics I've read in years.
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Same with Scott Pilgrim.
Y the Last Man was also boring. Ex Machina would be a much better choice from that same author.
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I need to go back and give Y the LAST MAN another try. A friend of mine who owns a comic shop asked me to read the first trade, and I'm not sure if I ever finished it. Something about it didn't jive, and I was never able to put my finger on it.
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I would like to see a graphic novel about a futuristic world where we all acknowledge we have different tastes and don't waste our time bickering over what other's like (or should like). That would be a neat world.