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25 of Your Favorite Sci-Fi Fantasy Comics

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This Riot Recommendation about your favorite sci-fi fantasy comics is sponsored by Pierce Brown’s Red Rising, out from Dynamite Entertainment.

In the future, when mankind has spread across the stars, the hierarchy of man is dictated by the color of one’s caste. The Golds rule all, but what will happen when one falls for a lowly Red? See how a forbidden love will set the course of events for the future and lead to the formation of the formidable Sons of Ares!


There’s a long and storied history of SFF in sequential art. We asked our readers for their recommendations for their favorite sci-fi fantasy comics and they let loose!

Beyond the Western Deep Vol. 1 by Alex Kain and Rachel Bennett

Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

Princess Princess Ever After by Katie O’Neill

Gunnerkrigg Court Vol. 1 Orientation by Thomas Siddell

Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

Strange Attractors by Charles Soule and Greg Scott

Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang

ApocalyptiGirl: An Aria for the End Times by Andrew MacLean

Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro

Princeless Book 1: Save Yourself by Jeremy Whitley, M. Goodwin

I Hate Fairyland by Skottie Young

Space Battle Lunchtime by Natalie Riess

Interesting Drug by Shaun Manning and Anna Wieszczyk

Low by Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini

The Woods Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV and Michael Dialynas

Descender by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen

The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars Part One by Michael Dante DiMartino and Irene Koh

Iscariot by S. M. Vidaurri

Wild’s End by Dan Abnett and I.N.J. Culbard

The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O’Neill

Long Walk to Valhalla by Adam Smith and Matthew Fox

Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann, Kerascoët, and Helge Dascher

Ravina the Witch? by Junko MIzuno

Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Petersen

Spera Volume 1 by Josh Tierney, Emily Carroll, and Afu Chan

What are your favorite sci-fi fantasy comics?