While comic book films are breaking every possible box office record, comics themselves remain an unknown culture for many, which is difficult to approach. Endless superhero series with no beginning and no end only reinforce this reputation. We have selected ten of the best comic series that are intended for an adult audience, do not contain people in colored tights, have the structure of a finished work, and can even remotely be considered science fiction.
The best sci-fi comics
I tried to omit the very obvious recommendations to read The Watchmen and V for Vendetta - you have probably already come across Alan Moore's imperishable. However, you can’t do without the classics, so let’s start with old and time-tested recommendations, and then gradually move on to newer and more experimental ones.
Transmetropolitan
Surely somewhere on the Internet you have already come across an image of a bald man in strange red-green glasses and with a spider tattoo on his head. He usually clutches a cigarette between his teeth and looks at us with a devilish squint. So, the name of this comrade Spider is Jerusalem, and he works as a journalist in the city of the future, which in the comic is simply called the City.
Despite the fact that Transmetropolitan is far from new (the first issue dates back to 1997, the last - 2002), it has not lost its relevance at all - neither in terms of the issues discussed, nor even in terms of technology.
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For example, on the very first pages, we come across a reasonable 3D printer that downloaded digital drugs from somewhere and, after a little glitch, printed the famous glasses for Spider. By the way, he himself is not alien to substances - otherwise, which of him is a follower of Hunter Thompson?
And don't let the bright colors confuse you: The city is a real dystopia. Three-eyed mutant cats roam the rubbish heaps, neon windows advertise sexual pleasures featuring Muppets, street children gnaw on in vitro grown human limbs, and so on and so forth.
Sitting on the roof of a strip club, Spider fights for the last crumbs of truth, justice and human dignity: he scribbles a column where, without embarrassment in expressions, he exposes corrupt politicians. In general, what's not to like here?
The Invisibles
It’s even a little strange to advise The Invisibles - this is a famous work that left a mark in the history of comics comparable to Watchmen. Retelling the plot is also pointless: acidic visions and references to pop culture, as well as the adventures of a team of extremely extraordinary personalities who wage a war for the freedom of human consciousness with the mysterious Outer Church - all this is much better to study in the original source.
You might ask what Mystique does on our list of the best sci-fi comics. The Invisibles is here more because of the themes of rebellion and counterculture. However, this comic may well be considered science fiction - just in a broad sense and without direct links to technology.
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I confess: having started more than once, I never finished reading The Invisibles to the end. It is characteristic that each time you read, you manage to find something new, but the process does not go quickly and easily. In general, stock up on patience - Invisibles are definitely worth it.
Y: The Last Man
And again a modern classic. Y: The Last Man began publication in 2002 and ended in 2008. On the pages of this comic, you will find a story about how a virus destroyed all men and male animals on earth, except for the main character Yorick and his pet monkey Ampersand.
Yorick, instead of becoming the main source of genetic material, carefully disguises himself and crosses America to get to the bottom of the causes of infection, find his beloved and (where else) to save humanity.
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Dialogue now and then unobtrusively turns into a discussion of gender inequality and gender stereotypes, but Y: The Last Man is unlikely to bore you with morality. Adventures with shooting, fights and frivolous disguises, post-apocalypse as a picturesque background, unobtrusive humor, bright characters and, in general, an extremely life-affirming mood help to swallow all 60 issues in a few days. So set aside a weekend or part of a vacation for this in advance, otherwise you may accidentally fall out of life.
tokyo ghost
If you're browsing this list looking for some real dark and melancholy cyberpunk, then here it is. Tokyo Ghost depicts a far future world that looks suspiciously like a grotesque version of the present: most people lead a vegetable lifestyle, addicted to the constant supply of digital entertainment.
The heroine, armed with a katana and a powerful hatred for what is happening, is at war with an artificial intelligence that has flown off the coils in order to save her boyfriend. True, all this can only be called science fiction with a big stretch, which sometimes stretches very thinly - especially when the ancient spirit of the earth brought by the heroes from Japan comes into play.
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The main advantage of Tokyo Ghost is how beautiful everything is: both drawn and invented. In addition, you won’t have to wade through dozens of issues and follow the branching of story arcs: we are talking about only ten thin books that came out from 2015 to 2016. To enjoy the unique style and look at another dark and hopeless world - more than enough.
Black Science
If there is dark magic, then why not dark science? Grant McKay, the protagonist of this as yet unfinished saga, invented, on the one hand, a wonderful, on the other hand, a frightening device. It allows him and his team to travel through an infinite number of parallel universes. And of course, everything does not go according to plan already on the very first pages.
The plot of Black Science is so famously twisted, and the worlds through which the heroes jump are so bright that it can make your head spin - especially if you read non-stop (and the temptation to do just that is great). Add to this the deep psychologism of endless reflections of the same story of love, betrayal and broken family relationships. But science is again at a minimum - contrary to the name.
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If you successfully swallow Tokyo Ghost and get addicted to Black Science, be sure to check out other comics by their author Rick Remender. First of all, I recommend Deadly Class - a story about the difficulties of the life of students of the school of murderers. This is something like Harry Potter, but with the strictest age rating and a bias towards the study of youth subcultures of the eighties and nineties.
The Private Eye
One day, all the information that people kept in the "clouds" was taken and poured with heavy rain: the protections collapsed and everything became instantly available to everyone. Since then, mankind has no longer trusted computers and has become much more concerned about privacy - so much so that you will not meet a person on the street without a mask on his face.
The Private Eye - the story of a private detective who finds himself in the center of a tangled story and deftly unravels it. But in this case, it’s not so much the plot that matters, but the author’s attempt to imagine what a hangover will be like after mass intoxication, in which we throw out a lot of personal data on the Web.
Surely the world of Private Eye will seem a little cartoonish to you, but for comics this is quite normal. Especially, of course, it's funny to see your own crooked reflection: the father of the protagonist is an aged gamer and gadget lover, a child of the early 2000s. He, suffering from senile insanity, pokes at the phone screen and cannot understand where the Internet has gone.
These figments of Brian Vaughn's imagination can be skeptical, but still worth a look, especially since the comic is distributed on a pay-what-you-you-can-don't-pay model and is available as a PDF.
Saga
If you're looking for something light and enjoyable to read in the evenings, but nonetheless so addictive that you want to come back again and again, it's hard to give a better recommendation than Saga. It's a Star Wars-sized space fantasy centered around a classic forbidden love story between two warring factions.
I will not retell the plot of the Saga, because it is not at all valuable. It attracts rather a riot of imagination, incredible scale and variety of colorful worlds and the races inhabiting them. It is especially pleasant to admire all this, since the Saga is drawn to match. The steepness of another turn is simply breathtaking.
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The Manhattan Projects
Perhaps the picture of Albert Einstein sawing an alien with a chainsaw is enough to characterize this comic. If such an image disgusts you, calmly pass by and practice snobbery somewhere else.
But if the picture seems interesting, then you will find many hours of entertaining reading matter. Book after book, an alternative world will unfold in front of you, in which scientists who had a hand in creating the American nuclear bomb are doing absolutely indescribable things.
Illuminati, alien invasions, secret deals with the USSR - the wildest conspiracy theories have been digested in the cauldron of imagination of the creators of Manhattan Projects. The resulting mess is carefully laid out in panels and seasoned with black humor. This may not be the most useful of intellectual dishes, but it turned out to be surprisingly digestible.
Until the last book (The Sun Beyond the Stars), dedicated to the space adventures of Yuri Gagarin and Laika, I have not yet reached, but I am looking forward to this moment.
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Dr. Sleepless
"Where's my damn jetpack?" "Where are our flying cars?" - the heroes of the comic book Doktor Sleepless ask questions. What they mean is that the future they (and us) were promised in the old science fiction never happened. Instead, they (like us!) now have completely different technologies.
The action of Doktor Sleepless takes place as if in a dead end of history, from which his characters are trying to escape. Chief among them is a self-proclaimed mad scientist. His madness manifests itself mainly in the form of rants, which he broadcasts using a pirate radio station. Its audience is representatives of radical subcultures like grinders (those who like to implant electronic implants in themselves) and Shrike girls who synchronize their sensations remotely.
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Unfortunately, Doktor Sleepless, which began with a bang in 2007, will never be finished, or even continued. A grenade with a sticker in the form of a smiling face thrown in the last (sixteenth) issue will remain hanging in the air, and the wiki attached to the comic no longer even opens.
However, if you like the work of Warren Ellis, already finished series like Planetary and FreakAngels will give you many hours of pleasure. I also recommend Ignition City - a short story about a semi-abandoned space city and the Injection series, which is just starting now and borrowed some ideas from Doktor Sleepless.
paper girls
The second season of Stranger Things has ended, and you want something else in the same vein? Read Paper Girls - it's even cooler in many ways. The four heroines of this comic book, having started to travel in time, can not stop and return home to the eighties. Instead, they have to face more and more mysteries, clues and amazing adventures.
On the way, the author manages to think interestingly about the changes that have taken place in our lives and in society over the past couple of decades. Add to that an unforgettable visual style (which the covers alone are worth!), and you will understand why this comic has become rapidly gaining popularity.
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A total of 23 issues are available so far - a great time to read them all in a couple of steps and wait for the next.
A little parting word
An attentive reader will surely notice that I cheated a little and half of the list is the same three authors: Warren Ellis, Brian Vaughn and Rick Remender. But I can’t help myself - it was with them that I began my acquaintance with modern comics, I was not disappointed and look forward to new creations. I hope you have an equally pleasant experience.
As additional guidelines, I can recommend looking at the publisher and the imprint under which the books are published. There's a lot of good stuff coming out of Image Comics these days, whereas DC's Vertigo and Wildstorm imprints used to target the same audience.
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The Adventures, Science Fiction magazine is a kind of sign of the times and a shameful page in the history of Russian science fiction, a literary garbage dump of the early 1990s. When the old Soviet science fiction died, and the new Russian (whatever it meant) had not yet appeared, Yuri Petukhov tried to fill the resulting literary vacuum in the niche of Russian science fiction literature with his magazine. All sorts of literary rubbish heavily spiced with chernukha, porno and dismembered found a place on its pages. And as the crown of all the activities of the magazine - Petukhov's five-book cycle "Star Revenge", which has long become a terrible legend of Russian literature, with which old readers scare newcomers.
Now, when I hear about the crisis in Russian science fiction, about the decline in the level of writing skills, about the dominance of mediocre MTA, I remember this magazine and understand that everything is not so bad now. History has once again proved that no matter what illnesses literature suffers from, healthy forces will prevail in it, and very clinical cases, like Rooster's offspring, will give up and be forgotten like a nightmare.
Bottom line: sometimes I regret that as a child I was too promiscuous in my book addictions, because partly because of this magazine, I developed a negative opinion about science fiction, which I had to overcome for several years. Those who have not come across this periodical are frankly lucky. Those who have read it, however, will most likely agree with me that Adventures, Fantasy is one of the worst (and possibly the worst) literary magazine that has ever been published in our country.
Score: 2
It was from this magazine that my acquaintance with the wonderful world of fantasy began! It was then Efremov, Strugatsky and others, and then ... Shock, surprise, shock, delight ... and many other completely different emotions, which, probably, I will never experience ... :pray: Desire, in the literal sense, to shaking in the hands, to profuse salivation and headache - to find out what happened next, how this work ended. The second time I experienced something similar, only when I picked up Lukyanenko's book, but this, again, was much later.
But the most important feeling is love, no, I have had a love for books since childhood, from the moment I learned this truly amazing occupation on earth - reading, but love for science fiction, for science fiction in general, for everything that can fall under this definition, not just fantasy literature. And if at first I read everything in a row, enjoying just the very process of reading, and rejoicing at any new information gleaned from the book, then after reading this magazine, I fell ill forever, with one genre. Indeed, it is in fantasy that the author is limited only by his imagination, and on the basis of this, it is fantasy that can be considered the highest expression of the writer's work, although, of course, this is only my personal opinion. And if the flight of the author's fantasy is compared with a stream, then the fantasy of the authors collected in this magazine can be compared with a raging mountain river that captures you in its course, sometimes even against your will, dipping headlong, and you only emerge for a moment to breathe, gain in the chest for more air and again dive into this amazing, beautiful, enchanting and exciting world of fantasy!
LITERARY AND ARTS JOURNAL Editor-in-chief Yu. Petukhov Alexander Chernobrovkin. KINSLER DIVES (fantastic adventure story) V. Panfilov. MOTHER (story) Alexey Kudryashov. A TALE OF TEMPTATION (story) by N. Yu. Chudakova, S.N. Chudakov. Panopticon. NOOSPHERIC THEATER (article) Andrey Ivanov. WITCH HUNT (story) Cover design by S. Atroshenko
Magazine "Adventures, Science Fiction" 3 "92 Yuri Petukhov
LITERARY AND ARTS JOURNAL Chief editor Yu. Petukhov Yury Petukhov. STAR REVENGE (continuation of the novel) Anatoly Fesenko. A STEP FROM THE DARKNESS (horror story) Cover design by S. Atroshenko. Design of the title by S. Atroshenko, illustrations by R. Afonin.
Magazine "Adventures, Science Fiction" 1 "92 V Andreev
LITERARY AND ARTS JOURNAL Chief editor Yu. Petukhov I. Voloznev. TREASURES OF SHAKHERAZADE I. Voloznev. HELL'S ROULETTE A. Chernobrovkin. THE RAT DEVIL B. Andreev. RESERVATION A. Logunov. STAYING THERE A. Logunov. UNDER THE CONSTELLATION OF THE OCTAPOD V. Potapov. GADENYSH N. Yu. and S. N. Chudakov. ATLANTIS, ATLANTS, PRATLANTS
Search - 92. Adventures. Fiction Mikhail Nemchenko
“... The crowd fell silent, as if bewitched by the gloomy sounds of savage words. Sparks from the torches flared up with might and main burst into darkness, the heavy side of the altar turned fantastically purple, reflecting the flames dangling in the wind. - Praise Satan! Let's glorify! the man in white shouted piercingly and authoritatively. Let's quench his thirst! - Blood! - crackling gasped across the clearing. - Blood! .. ”What is this, a scene from the depths of centuries? Alas, no ... The action of the opening "Search-92" story by A. Krasheninnikov "Rite", from where this passage is taken, is essentially unfolding in our days, or rather ...
Fiction 2006. Issue 2 Andrey Valentinov
Fans of national fiction! New stories, novels and articles by Sergei Lukyanenko and Evgeny Lukin, Leonid Kaganov and Yulia Ostapenko, Sergei Chekmaev - and the creative duet of G. L. Oldie! All this - and much, much more - in the new collection "Fiction".
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Fans of national fiction! Before you is another collection of the popular almanac "Fantastica", which has been published with unchanging success for nine years already! This collection includes not only new works by Sergei Lukyanenko and Vasily Golovachev, Pavel Amnuel, Viktor Nochkin, Alexei Korepanov, Yulia Ostapenko and other masters of the genre, but also the amazing, ironic journalism of Evgeny Lukin and the stories of young talented science fiction writers who are still gaining popularity and glory.
Fiction 2009: Issue 2. Snakes of Chronos Ivan Kuznetsov
Fans of national fantasy! Before you is another collection of the popular almanac "Fantastica", which has been published with unchanging success for nine years already! This collection includes not only new works by Sergei Lukyanenko and Vasily Golovachev, Pavel Amnuel, Viktor Nochkin, Alexei Korepanov, Yulia Ostapenko and other masters of the genre, but also the amazing, ironic journalism of Evgeny Lukin and the stories of young talented science fiction writers who are still gaining popularity and glory.
FANTASTIC. 1966. Issue 1 Nikolay Amosov
So, reader, before you is another collection of "Fiction". On the example of this collection, you can see how diverse fiction is. Here the story and the novel, the story and the play, fantastic parodies and humoresques. In the “New Names” section, in addition to the parody cycle by Vladlen Bakhnov, there is a story (by no means humorous, but rather traditionally fantastic) by A. Mirer “The Obsidian Knife”.
Adventure, Fantasy 1993 № 1 Natalia Makarova
Yuri Petukhov. "Riot of the Ghouls". Fantasy adventure novel. Alexander Komkov. "Test". Fantasy story. Natalya Makarova. "Werewolf". Horror documentary. Alexander Bulenko. "Executor". Fantasy story. Artists Roman Afonin, E. Kisel, Alexei Filippov. http://metagalaxy.traumlibrary.net
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The idea of this article originated with me a long time ago, but the scale of the problem raised scared me away for a long time. The further my thoughts went, the clearer my own lack of competence became, so I did my best to look for reasons not to start writing.
This cursed topic haunted me day and night, at work and in rare moments of rest, treacherously slipped through in a friendly conversation and was read between the lines in the price tags for fruits. Fate itself forced me to gather the remnants of courage lying in ruins and still decide to jot down a few words on the issue of the conflict between classic fiction and what we meet in comics. These are the few words I present to the venerable public of Spidermedia.
Consideration of such nuances is a topic not at all typical for ordinary media. This is how SpiderMedia differs from ordinary media, and, together with a couple of other sites, is the backbone and avant-garde of resources dedicated to mass culture. Well, if not now, then soon. Few people know about this, however, but not everyone is allowed into paradise either.
From the past to tomorrow
It just so happened historically that the audiences of comics and science fiction fans overlap. No wonder science fiction is an important cultural phenomenon spanning literature, art, film and continues to haunt us in video game comics. It is logical that people who have taken part in pop culture will give money both for ordinary novels dedicated to space adventures and for pictures diluted with text in a sweet setting. However, these genres have not only historical parallels in their development, but also diametrically opposed features. The moment is not the most obvious, and therefore let's try to parse it together.
The idea to show how different science fiction in its classical sense and what we see in comics came to me after studying materials related to the new wave in science fiction. Representatives of this trend (Zelazny, Murcock, Aldiss) sought to break the connection between the literary genre of science fiction and the comic book format, which discredits the artistic value of this very genre. The popularity of pulp fiction and picture books has notably affected the status of science fiction literature, creating a stereotype of second-rate teenage writing for it. And there was nothing to be done about it, because in ninety-five cases out of a hundred this stereotype was confirmed in a fresh magazine with a kitsch cover.
Fiction at that time (and even today) by and large consisted of low-grade books about flat maritime protagonists saving the world that happened to be at hand. Even after the genre was notably shaken up by Golden Age stalwarts like Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, the amount of bad fiction hasn't abated. On the contrary, in the wake of the popularity of science fiction magazines and a couple of good writers, hundreds of different mediocrities surfaced, continuing to feed the public with stupid literary miscarriages.
The new wave influenced not only the development of the Sci-Fi literary genre, but also the approach to its critical analysis. To this day, the academic study of science fiction virtually ignores the existence of comics. The maximum that is awarded to picture books is the mention of their direct existence.
Contemporary writer and literary scholar Lance Oulsen admitted that as a child he did not read science fiction, except for "terrible comics." He is not the only one who adheres to such an assessment of the content of bright magazines. Voicing negative judgments out loud is bad manners today, you still make yourself a hypocrite in the society of the victorious post-post-modernity. But chuckles and a condescending intonation inevitably slip through if in a literary environment it somehow comes to comic books.
The reason for this attitude is rooted deep in time. Which sci-fi comic will be named first in our country? If I knew the answer... But the English-speaking population of the planet will surely mention "Flash Gordon". A comic book about a brave blond man who, by a whim of fate, was abandoned on the insane planet of the autocrat Ming, began to appear in 1934 and gave rise to a real cult. This beautiful comic (let's just pretend that Dynamite doesn't exist), like its older brother Buck Rogers, defined many visual decisions in the space opera genre, set the canons that haunt us in all sorts of Star Wars. Alex Raymond not only created an icon of American pop cult, but also inspired many future generations of artists with his drawing.
Incorporating all the best that fiction of the heyday of the palp could provide, Flash Gordon could not get rid of its shortcomings - flat characters and clichéd dialogues. It was they who became the reason for the eviction of comics beyond the framework in which there is a place for serious cultural discourse.
Reading "Flash Gordon", we enthusiastically follow the confrontation between a valiant hero and a sinister dictator. We watch how the strength and courage of our hero help him climb to the top of the world, despite everything that this world inhabits. But a psychological portrait cannot consist of only positive characteristics. As the most striking example for comparison, I would like to cite the novel "1984" by George Orwell, which has become a cult work, being, in fact, science fiction. Orwell showed both the functioning of the authoritarian mechanism and human behavior in the depths of this machine for erasing personality. In the same way, Clark, Lem, Dick placed the human world in completely unusual conditions, and modeled the behavior of quite real people in it (like me or you), and did not describe the mythical Übermensch. And this myth-making was the trouble with almost all old comics.
Alex Raymond borrowed many elements from ancient Roman culture.
But we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. Fiction also did not immediately prove its right to be called literature. Just as Howard didn't give much thought to the psychological development of his Conan, so the creators of pulp comics didn't pay any attention to such trifles as authenticity. The genre of drawn stories did not die out in those distant 30s, but continued to exist and develop. Still ignored by serious institutions, it opened up new possibilities and approaches. Will Eisner has shown that by using sequential images, one can touch on important and personal topics. Jack Kirby showed How consecutive images can be used.
While the comic was building up its narrative power, the British invasion was drawing near. The screenwriters who came to the new world were finally able to use the tools accumulated by their predecessors with valor. But professional critics have not rushed to lick the pages of new issues of comics. And it cannot be said that the blame lies on the shoulders of some universal injustice. Most Britons favored fantasy, and most fantasy is as stubbornly ignored as Comic Books, dear to our hearts. The purpose of Fantasy is to describe something that cannot be because it cannot be in principle. Good fantasy, however, does not reduce the flight of fancy to mechanistic elements like mana or, Ilivatar forbid, fireballs. And with this task, balancing on the crest of a surrealistic wave, such masters as Moore and Gaiman perfectly coped ... Moreover, Winsor McKay showed us such a flight, such turns of human thought that contemporaries simply get sick when reading.
In search of a fantastic outlet
Different authors, different eras, different approaches. But it seems to me that the reason for the absence of a comic book star on the sci-fi Olympus lies in us, the readers. In film science there is a conceptexploitation film", they are usually described as low-budget films whose creators are trying to make money by speculating on the popular theme of zombies, sex, fascists or fascist zombies having sex. Much like this niche movie, a lot of comics is about the exploitation of superheroes, violence, monsters, etc. The paradox is that readers and authors like this approach, and therefore there is no need to change it.
Not only the genre is exploited, even the style of "those same comics" that everyone read in childhood becomes an effective means of attracting attention. Before us there is a vicious circle of bad graphic stories. Previously, they were made because they wanted to eat, and good authors could not be driven into the industry with a stick. Now they are made to please the public, who enjoyed more topics bad comics. Phew, you can just go crazy.
After the release of the acclaimed "Watchmen" and "Maus", it became more difficult to ignore the comics. And in order to understand whether pictorial novels can claim the title of serious science fiction, let's finally give this very fiction a definition.
The term "fantasy" was introduced at the beginning of the 19th century by Charles Nodier, the basis for this was his work "On the Fantastic in Literature". Looking into an old and dusty encyclopedia in search of a definition of the genre, we will find the following lines: “A specific method of artistic display of life, using an artistic form-image (object, situation, world), in which elements of reality are combined in a way that is unusual for it, in principle, — unbelievable, "wonderful", supernatural." Such a blurred framework could be great to untie our hands, if we weren’t so uninterested in fantasy and fairy tales. We are serious guys who came here for science fiction, what his peculiarity?
One of the main differences of science fiction, emphasized by researchers, is the function of scientific foresight that it performs. There are many examples of how scientific intuition and interest in the subject being studied helped to predict and approximate real discoveries. It is enough for us that fantastic fiction must have a clear theoretical basis at its foundation. And if nothing bothers us in the world created by the author, everything seems to be sufficiently reliable, then it is a sign of good science fiction.
There is no reason to believe that the space of the comic book interferes with the creation of quality science fiction. Rather, turning from a chrysalis into a butterfly does not give the cocoon of capitalism. In order for the series to continue its release, someone must not only read, but also buy fresh issues. Comic books with bright characters and original storytelling sell well, but this recipe lacks a point with a competent picture of the world. The result is a good story, but bad Sci-Fi. If you are one of those perverts who burdened yourself with reading Lem's Fiction and Futurology, you can easily imagine how gracefully he would not leave a wet spot from the popular "Saga", "East of West", "Prophet".
It would be worth mentioning the exceptions that an author striving for high-quality Sci-Fi can be equal to, but nothing but the Planetes manga comes to mind. It tells about space debris cleaners, and the prospects for human space exploration are shown in rather scrupulous detail. Masters like Bilal or Möbius created marvelous visual feasts. Geniuses, of course, but today we are talking about completely different things.
Good Sci-Fi must slide along the edge of the mode of the possible. It should not only surprise with magical pictures, but also provide an opportunity to reflect on the prospects that have opened up. This comic needs time. Today, psychologism and realism is becoming an indispensable element of any story, even a superhero one. This will surely be followed by experiments with scientific certainty, the search for an exact syntax in describing the world of the work, and a clear thinking through the sociological side of tomorrow. In any case, I really want to believe in it. And until that moment, we will continue reading the "bad" science fiction comics, because they do not become less interesting and exciting.