Comics!

[TageRyche]

Don't forget that Free Comic Book Day is on Saturday!

 

[TageRyche]

I give out comics along with candy on Halloween so I pre-order a bunch of books for Free Comic Book Day so I have all sorts to give out to the various age groups that come to my door.

Here's a look at the haul.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

..yeah i do the same, especially with the mini halloween comicfest books. But we havent gotten many trick-or-treaters in the last few years so i still have a few stacks layin around

 

[TageRyche]

..yeah i do the same, especially with the mini halloween comicfest books. But we havent gotten many trick-or-treaters in the last few years so i still have a few stacks layin around

Yeah, I have stuff left over too, but it means I get to reduce what I order from one year to the next. Which is helpful.

 

[Einherjar86]

Just finished Garth Ennis's Caliban, really enjoyed it. Anyone know of any similar sci-fi horror set in deep space/on a ship? I realize it's a niche subgenre but it's probably one of my favorite vibes and I find it's not that common.

 

[CiG]

Becky Cloonan’s Southern Cross is probably the closest recommendation I could give. Everything about this one rules, especially the character development. Don't want to give too much away though as it's a mystery, but a big rec from me.


Grant Morrison’s Nameless also touches on some of those elements you mentioned, although it's more generally a philosophical/cosmic horror work, but it does take place in space a lot.


Then you have some of the Aliens comics that you'd probably appreciate, in particular Aliens: Dead Orbit. The art style alone makes it a must read imho.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Southern Cross is awesome. Have the whole run in floppies. Great rec. Try The Nameless by Grant Morrison. Im having a bit of a brainfart right now as far as sci-fi horror in deep space goes go but i'll get back to this if i remember any.

Gideon Falls(while not in space) is a pretty solid horror series. Another very good one ive read in recent years was These Savage Shores, but again not in outer space.

@Einherjar86 not what you're asking for but have you ever red Pax Romana or The Nightly News? Give those a shot, i think you might dig 'em

 

[Einherjar86]

Awesome, thanks for all the recs guys.

I'm not sure I know exactly what I'm asking for beyond "sci-fi horror set on a spaceship." Caliban scratched the itch pretty well, really enjoyed the story. I only wish the setup was a bit longer; I'd have loved to get more of the characters simply living on a spaceship way out in the big nothing, and the quiet horrors that accompany that isolation, before the major action started. But the action was great, so I'm not complaining. In terms beyond comics, movies like Alien and Event Horizon get somewhat at what I'm into. For B movies, Creature and Dead Space (1991), although I much prefer the Scott and P.T. Anderson films.

I read some of the Alien series comics when I was younger, loved them and would love to revisit them.

I don't spend too much time with comics but recently just found myself hungry for something in the graphic medium that fell somewhat in this camp, which is why I asked. I'm open to series or graphic novels that take various approaches, so any and all recs are welcome. I'll try to work my way through the titles you both mentioned, probably start with Southern Cross.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

any similar sci-fi horror set in deep space/on a ship? I realize it's a niche subgenre I find it's not that common.

sci-fi horror set in deep space on a ship is actually really common if you're looking at novels that don't have pictures

IMO it seems kinda weird and really sad that these novels aren't being made into graphic novels the way that Marvel Comics made Laurel K Hamilton's Anita Blake and Stephen King's Gunslinger into comics

 

[Einherjar86]

sci-fi horror set in deep space on a ship is actually really common if you're looking at novels that don't have pictures

I'm interested in pictures. That's why I posted in the Comics thread.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

I'm interested in pictures. That's why I posted in the Comics thread.

yeah, i get it, i like the pictures too
that's why i'm so disappointed that the sci-fi stories with extra-terrestrials that don't look human can't get made into comics

i wanna see pictures of the six-foot-tall-ants and the six-legged-cats

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

IMO it seems kinda weird and really sad that these novels aren't being made into graphic novels the way that Marvel Comics made Laurel K Hamilton's Anita Blake and Stephen King's Gunslinger into comics

@Einherjar86
i'm now remembering The Terminator, Aliens, Predator, Star Trek, and Star Wars, have all been made into comics

so why no the rest of the sci-fi genre??

 

[Einherjar86]

You just listed a ton of major franchises that were immensely popular before their comics adaptations. I doubt publishers are going to adapt your general mass market sci-fi/horror novel published at Orbit or smaller Tor imprints like Nightfire, which have a respectively smaller fanbase within an already niche reading public.

 

[Einherjar86]

Checked out Southern Cross vol. 1 and really liked it, was exactly what was looking for. Similar to Caliban but with a more punk attitude. Was looking into getting vol. 2 and learned that apparently the series has stalled...? Not sure if there are plans to revive it or not. I'll probably still check out v2 but it'll suck if we never get a conclusion.

I'll probably move on to The Nameless next.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

You just listed a ton of major franchises that were immensely popular before their comics adaptations. I doubt publishers are going to adapt your general mass market sci-fi/horror novel published at Orbit or smaller Tor imprints like Nightfire, which have a respectively smaller fanbase within an already niche reading public.

i'm still waiting to see pictures of the 6-foot-tall ants and the 6-legged-house-cats