6 of the Best YA Space Comics for Intergalactic Adventurers

When Clementine lands her dream job with A.I. pioneer Dr. Marcella Lin on Mars, she’s ecstatic to be able to continue her work in robotics. She’s not even surprised to discover Dr. Lin’s assistant is a robot. She has her own moth-shaped robot companion, after all. But when it becomes increasingly clear that Kye is more sentient that Dr. Lin is willing to admit—and entirely under her control—Clem is forced to confront everything she thought she knew about the difference between robots, humans, and A.I.

After failing to save her best friend, a planetary princess, in her youth, Pan decides to hitch a ride off-world with a pair of intergalactic gladiators. Bee and Cass have been trying to take on the system of gladiator-style prize fights over princesses from the inside. Now, with Pan’s help, they might be able to overthrow this outdated patriarchal institution once and for all.

Peony is a baker living Earthside who jumps on the chance to compete on the intergalactic hit show Space Battle Lunchtime. Too bad she doesn’t know anything about the show, like the fact that her competitors are killers (literally), she has to use out of this world ingredients (Mars sugar is not the same as Earth sugar), and filming happens on a massive spaceship. Will she be able to survive the competition and the cutthroat competitors? Only (space)time will tell in this rollicking intergalactic adventure for all ages!

It’s a hotel. It’s a giant space mech. It’s Hotelitor! Why travel through the galaxy on a boring old spaceship when you could catch a ride on a luxury-class defense and hospitality unit? It’s a great time—until a giant alien attacks and Hotelitor’s surviving guests and staff, including teenage intern Anna and her fellow entry-level employees, have to take charge. It’s a wild ride as different factions vie for control and a musician-in-residence gains a (literal) cult following. Hotelitor is the perfect graphic novel for younger teens who love space, mechs, and adventure.

Vern is just a regular guy down on his luck. But when his grandmother gets him a job at Quasar, he accidentally opens up a portal to another dimension and catches the attention of a powerful interdimensional being hell-bent on keeping humanity from expanding out into the universe. Vern doesn’t even know what to do with his own life; will he really be able to figure out how to save all of humanity throughout the multiverse?

Super powers aren’t all that unusual among Oberon’s peers of first-gen planetary settlers. Their parents were exposed to all sorts of strange radiation in space. But when Oberon’s dreams start manifesting into reality shortly after he drops out of school to get treatment for his mental health, he’s not sure if it’s a good thing. Especially because the starring role in his dreams has gone to his long lost childhood friend / crush, Kon.

Strange Bedfellows skews toward New Adult, so be aware that it’s better for older, rather than younger, teens.