Caliban

Garth Ennis and Facundo Percio's Caliban began at Avatar Press in 2014. The crew of the titular ship is traveling through hyperspace when it collides with an abandoned alien vessel, an event that should not be possible.

The merged ships turn the journey into a survival crisis. The crew must investigate unfamiliar spaces while danger grows around and among them.

The comic begins with a compact science-fiction contradiction: two ships meet where nothing should interrupt travel. That impossible event makes the physical setting itself unreliable.

Its horror works through confinement. The crew cannot step away from the mystery, and every discovery changes the terms of survival.

Hyperspace is supposed to make distance manageable; here it becomes the route by which an unknown threat enters the ship. A trusted technology exposes people to what they assumed did not exist.

The alien vessel is both archaeological object and immediate danger. Curiosity carries a cost when the investigators have nowhere safe to retreat.

Percio's dark ship interiors and unfamiliar alien forms make the collision feel bodily and spatially confusing. Corridors that should be familiar become dangerous thresholds.

The art's claustrophobia keeps the horror close even though the vessel moves through enormous space.