James, yeah, I remember that series. I’d love to know what the mystery behind that village was.

Hi, Koon, welcome.

I try to recommend based on other stuff they like, but SeaGuy, Promethea and the Invisibles are always my first choices to try and share. Otherwise it’s short or easy reads to ease them into the comics I like:
Universal War One
Transmetropolitan
Elephantmen
Pax Romana
Tankgirl
We3

Then again we’re much the same, and I’d consider talking about American Flagg or Moonshadow or Lobo or even Filth. I’d try and mention Big Man Japan at about this time too…

Also love Ghost in the Shell, but I’d rather recommend the cartoon and of course, I better say that I’m a Transformer’s fan (that marvel title was my first purchase..).

…which brings back an old memry,.. I’d like to see a Planet Terry collection.

hi, I’m koon

Another title that has not been mentioned yet is “Astronauts in Trouble.”

Jim

I was pleased to see you mention Strange Attractors as part of this illustrious list. It turns out that we’ve just signed with Gary Reed’s company Transfuzion, to do an SA collection entitled Pirate Peg’s Rangerette Handbook.

Best,

Michael Cohen

I think this site might’ve mentioned it once.

Also, FINDER by Carla Speed McNeil is really wonderful, though it’s much more interested in the humans that exist in the futuristic earth than in the futuristic earth itself.

A book that nobody has mentioned yet, though, is ECHO by Terry Moore (who also wrote STRANGERS IN PARADISE). The artwork is just as good as it ever was on SIP, but the story is definitely science-fictional. It has corrupt/greedy/power-hungry corporations (a staple of quite a lot science fiction these days), some kind of living nuclear skin, a robot-sort-of-android guy, and even tough-looking but tender-hearted bikers. :-)

Good stuff.

Not to mention that there were several comics mentioned later that were on par with my preferences.

A, A’ + They Were Eleven – hopefully we can get a reprint if the sales of Fanagraphics’ Moto Hagio’s Drunken Dream are good.
Please Save my Earth – should seriously be rereleased as a series of seven omnibus VizBig collections. What are they waiting for??
Zot! – Definitely prefer the B&W stories to the first 10 coloured issues.
Little White Mouse – My sister bought this on a whim, and it was surprisingly enjoyable.
Yoko Tsuno – completely forgot this French title – if I’d read the English version, I might’ve remembered.

In addition to the above titles, I’d also recommend the Marvel adaption of Ender’s Game. Also, Nikolai Dante (of 2000 AD fame) has some Sci-fi elements, though it’s more about a loveable rogue trying to get out of sticky situations. (Mostly of his own doing)

For the truely insane comics fan, you can’t get any crazier than TechnoPriests.

There’s also a comic about a school spacestation written by a woman that went on hiatus, but restarted on the web. I can’t remember the title right now, but know it was highly recommended.

Brian

My favorite SF series (apart from amost anything from 2000AD) were “Alien Fire” and “Border Worlds”, both black and white series from Kitchen Sink Press; again these are not “Star Trek/Wars” SF, but rather are series that could easily stand next to anything by say Asimov, Heinlein or Clarke.

If you like the British style of more understated SF then the Jeff Hawke newspaper strip collections from Titan Books are a treat (I’m going to commit heresy here and say that I think that they’ve sttod the test of time much better than Dan Dare has…the Titan Dan Dare stuff bored me rigid, whereas I loved loved loved Jeff Hawke).

Also worth tracking down are the comic book adaptations of Ray Bradbury’s short stories “The Ray Bradbury Chronicles”, and Haldeman’s “Forever War” by NBM.
Another interesting read is the unfinished adaptation of William Gibson’s “Neuromancer” by Marvel’s Epic imprint.

Wandering Star

Watchmen ( I can’t believe no one has mentioned that.)

Electric Warrior (an 80s DC series that came out the same time as Dark Knight Returns. I know it’s not available, but I would recommend to any SF fan)

Akiko

Zot

Rasl

(Of course, “Science Fiction” covers everything from Lensman to Mad Max, Solaris to Dollhouse, so – as always – you want to know your audience. You don’t want to offer Star Trek to a Star Wars fan, or vice versa…)