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So once upon a time there was a shitty Image comics character named John Prophet; a Captain America-esque supersoldier who traveled to the future via cryogenic suspension to save humanity.
None of that shit matters, because this is a new joint.
It's the far, far, far future. Earth has grown old and alien and strange. John Prophet awakens from his underground cell with a mission - to travel across this strange landscape and reboot the Earth Empire. It's scripted by Brandon Graham, who has gained proper acclaim for his series King City and slightly less acclaim for his early pay-the-bills porn comics like Perverts of the Unknown. What matters is that this is beautiful, gritty, Big Sci-Fi stuff - strongly written, lovingly illustrated, with many standalone episodes so you can jump in on almost any issue but with an overarching setting that you get more and more of a look at as the series goes on. The first trade paperback for Graham's reboot is out, and the series is ongoing. Highly reccomended.
Saga (Image)
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The wunderchild of 2012, Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples's brilliant, witty, fun, and cool book is something like what you'd get if Joss Whedon wrote Star Wars. There's a long war on between the television-headed high science planet and the satyresque high magic moon that orbits it, but rather than wage it at home they've exported it to the rest of the galaxy. The plot follows a pair of defectors from the respective armies, who met, fell in love, and just had a kid. The parents are on the run from both sides and all the bounty hunters in the galaxy.
...reading that back, none of that does this justice. It's visceral and mean and idealistic at the same time; the characters are well-developed. Nothing is ever simple, everybody makes mistakes, and that is part of what makes this comic fantastic.
Godzilla: Half-Century War (IDW)
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James Stokoe of Won Ton Soup, Orc Stain, Spider-'Nam...wait, you've never heard of those? Fuck off and go to his blog right now: http://orcstain.wordpress.com/ Stokoe is one of the best artists in the business, with a Sergio Argones-style business turned up to 11 and set at "Alien Biotech." Half-Century War is a bit of an old-school look at our old friend Godzilla - no weird half-iguana stuff, just back in classic grey Tokyo-stomping action. The kick on this one is that the focus isn't on the Big G directly, but on the poor schlubs of the Japanese Defense Force that get to take him on when he makes an appearance - starting way back to when he first crawled out of the bay. It's a lovely read and I'm looking forward to the rest of it.