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Any fans of sci-fi comics here? East of West was such a cool world to delve into. (files.catbox.moe)
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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

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[–] 15 points 3 years ago

Anyone with a fucking robot balloon is to be taken super seriously

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    [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Atomic Robo! Not enough people talk about Atomic Robo.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Love me some Atomic Robo. I've been a fan of Brian Clevinger since the days of 8-Bit Theater.

    One of my biggest scores was an original inked comic page from Savage Sword of Doctor Dinosaur.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    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.

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    • [+] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    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.

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    • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    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…

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    • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    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.

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    [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The character design of the (aliens?) reminds me of something I'd see in The Fifth Element!

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 years ago

    Now that you mention it, it does give off those 5th Element vibes. Though, The Endless Nation is actually comprised of Native Americans, so it's the complete opposite of aliens in both the extraterrestrial sense and the immigrant sense.

    No one really knows what went down, but at some point they went into isolation for a considerable time, then emerged as a technological superpower. As the comic puts it:

    There is no record of the internal revolution which resulted in the Machine State, only the oral history of cast-out believers who now reside in the dead country. One day there was no Machine State, and then the next there was.

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    • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    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

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    • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    The comic itself certainly has some flaws. But the world, the history, the art, and the mythos were so compelling

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I loved the worldbuilding, but fell off pretty quickly when I realized the characters weren't going to get interesting.

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    • [–] 4 points 3 years ago*

    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.

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    [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Does the IDW run of Transformers count? One of my favorites by far.

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    [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    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!

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    [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Try Descender and if you haven't, try Saga.

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    [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Can I recommend Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow? I just finished it, it's sci-fi-ey and a very enjoyable standalone story. The art is really good as well. I really enjoyed it.

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    [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Never read that one, but I definitely enjoyed Transmetropolitan

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