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

3. Prophet

The thing to know about this comic is that you really have to ignore the first 20 issues if you want to get into it. Yeah, I know, but bear with me. Originally launched in the 1990s by Rob Liefield as part of Image's Extreme line, the comic didn't really find a big audience and floundered in its second year. After being recently revived by Brandon Graham and a host of wonderful artists, however, the book has flourished by telling slow burning, often impressionistic stories that are at once chest-beating space operas and Tarkovsky-esque meditations on human experience in space. The current incarnation of the series has been going for a couple of years now and can easily be caught up on through trade paperbacks, but most of the tales are relatively self-contained thanks to Graham's tendency to rotate through different artists regularly (the last couple of issues have had at least three different artists drawing interiors), giving the book a distinctly different feel every month, so it's just as easy to dive right in to see how the water is. I can honestly say there's nothing else like it on the shelves right now, and isn't that reason enough to pick it up?