page from East of West #11
Hickman and Dragotta reunited soon after their phenomenal Fantastic Four run to give us this Sci-Fi Western set in a alternate reality fractured dystopian United States where the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are the world’s only hope. It’s honestly just such a cool world to dive into and learn about.
Would recommend to sci-fi fans, comic fans, and those that just love world building.
A few of the major powers in the world:
The Union
The Endless Nation
The Kingdom
The People's Republic of America
pages from East of West: The World
I’m not exactly a “fan”, but I remember years ago really enjoying a brief comic run called “Gene Roddenberry’s ‘Lost Universe’”, published under an almost equally brief label called “Tekno Comix”. I was really disappointed when they went under.
Excellent art/world and pretty compelling story. Almost everything from Image Comics is really top quality. Recently read ODY-C and working my way through the Low series. Can’t recommend enough.
Hickman is one of my favourite writers, easily!
1st: Black Monday Murders (not sci fi but so so good, I love occult stuff like this)
2nd: Decorum
4th=: Manhatten Projects and East of West
Given the success of Oppenheimer I’m surprised Manhattan Projects isn’t getting more love. I’d love a second volume of Decorum but you have to be patient with Hickman haha
Yes, I made a post about comics too! Most of my bookshelf is graphic novels.
I love East of West. Apocalyptic western horror with some of the best art in any series.
Black Science
Atomic Robo
Paper Girls
Transmetropolitan
Saga
And not sci fi but
Monstress
Sandman
Lucifer
Darkness Visible
The Highest House
Lazarus
Are all so good.
Transmetropolitan remains my favourite by far. It’s just so…chewy. It reminds me of 2000AD Dredd - panels overflowing with incidental details that show the city is alive. Spider is unrelenting and unrepresented.
Atomic Robo! Not enough people talk about Atomic Robo.
Oh my God, I think it’s in the free comic book day book, where Dr. Dinosaur is at the gun show, has to be one of my favorite pages of any comic ever.
Removed by mod
To name a few other sci-fi ones: Saga, Low, Black Science, and if you love pulpy sci-fi there is also Fear Agent. They have some really cool art too.
From Black Science #1:
Edit: Oh, also want to shill James Stokoe’s Aliens: Dead Orbit just because I’m in love with the art in everything he does.
I think this was the first series I finished front to back. Got me into comics that had a finite length, unlike a lot of super hero comics.
Yeah, luckily, around the time I started to burn out on the endless events and reboots in Marvel and DC was when I feel like Image Comics really hit its stride. I wanna say early to mid 2010s(?) they really started branching out/expanding in what they published, and finding recognition and success—well, as much as comics can expect—for it.
Yeah! Saga, Invincible, The wicked + The divine, paper girls…
So many more that I still need to read. Montress, Deadly class, chew, rat queens, the department of truth, kick-ass…
Holy shit thank you for posting this! I just found out about this from you and found part 1 in my local library and this shit slaps hard as fuck. Thank you so much!
The comic itself certainly has some flaws. But the world, the history, the art, and the mythos were so compelling
I loved the worldbuilding, but fell off pretty quickly when I realized the characters weren’t going to get interesting.
The lore behind the characters i really enjoyed, and a few characters I thought were interesting enough. Its a world Id love to read a really fleshed out wikipedia site on
