Comics/graphic novel/manga thread

The IDW Transformers comics were pretty good. I wouldn’t expect the average person to want to read them, but they told a pretty interesting war story and took advantage of the Transformers to explore sci-fi concepts that wouldn’t work as well with human characters. (As an example, since Transformers are robots that can just repair themselves into immortality, some characters wonder if the Autobot-Decepticon war is endless because the same leaders have been alive since it started. Meanwhile human politicians are forced to give up power by death if nothing else, and the Transformers actually wonder if human society is more evolutionary because individual generations die off and aren’t allowed to control things forever.)

They also genuinely avoid problems that make mainstream comics unreadable. There’s one continuity instead of several, complete with foreshadowing and callbacks. Writers were forced by the editors to respect what previous writers did. Characters that died actually stayed dead. Etc.