7 Current Sci-Fi Comics That Are Way More Interesting Than Guardians Of The Galaxy

6. Trillium

Time travel and romance are, to my mind, a perfect fit. Who doesn't think about travelling back to the past to solve their mistakes or be with their lost love once again? So it's no surprise that I'm rather smitten with Trillium, a book from writer/artist Jeff Lemire about two characters from extremely disparate times - one's a First World War veteran who's searching for the Lost Temple of the Incas in Peru, the other's a space adventurer on a mission to save the human race from a universe-traversing plague - that brings their worlds crashing together in spectacular fashion. How's that for a meet-cute? Of course, they can't actually communicate properly the first time they meet - the trouble with having 500 years between them means they don't speak anything near the same language - but that doesn't stop them joining forces to find out what in the universe has happened to bring them together. It's being sold as "The Last Love Story" and is just as suitably epic yet movingly intimate as that description implies. Oh, and it's occasionally a flipbook too, meaning you have to read half the book upside down depending on which end of time you're on. It could easily come off as gimmicky but it works perfectly to alternately disorient and reorient the story when the characters come back together. Probably one to buy in physical form rather than digital, I'd say.