richard ballerman

If you’d told me a few years ago that outstanding science fiction could be spun out of a reboot of an old Rob Liefeld comic with that one guy with the swords who grimaces a lot and has padding glued to his face, the first question I’d have to ask is, "Which one guy with the swords was that? There were a couple." The answer would be Prophet, one of the most fruitful experiments to come out of the 2012 retooling of the defunct Extreme Studios line, and one of the most genuinely enthralling sci-fi comics of the past decade.

On sale this week from Image Comics is Prophet #22, continuing the science fiction saga by Brandon Graham and Simon Roy & Richard Ballerman whose first issue was among the best received new comics in recent memory. The story follows John Prophet, a man who wakes up in Earth of the distant future, full of all kinds of strange aliens and deadly wildlife, with a mission to restore the planet to h