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Paper Girls (2015)Published 1 Jan 2015Four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls start their rounds in the early hours after Halloween 1988 and are thrown into the future, and the series keeps faith with every crossing it sets up over 30 issues. What lifts it is that the time travel is about growing up: the future is something these…0 - 2
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)Published 1 Jan 2014Uncanny X-Men #141–142, 1981
Two issues by Chris Claremont and John Byrne that set the template: in a future where Sentinels hunt mutants, the telepath Rachel sends Kitty Pryde's mind back into the body of her thirteen-year-old self to stop the assassination of Senator Kelly that started it all.…0 - 3
Erased (2017)Published 1 Jan 2017Kei Sanbe's manga gives its time travel one strict and personal rule. Satoru Fujinuma, floundering through life at 29, is thrown by a "Revival" eighteen years into the past, back to his childhood, with a chance to save Kayo Hinazuki, the girl who was kidnapped and murdered when he was a boy the…0 - 4
Octavia E. Butler's Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (2017)Published 1 Jan 2017Damian Duffy and John Jennings's adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's novel is the darkest entry here and the one where the paradox matters most. Dana, a young Black woman, is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre-Civil War South, and as she moves between…0 - 5
The Umbrella Academy: Dallas (2008)Published 1 Jan 2008Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá's second six-issue series turns its time travel into a family argument. Number Five, it emerges, once worked for a shadowy timeline protection organisation that tasked him with killing John F. Kennedy, and a mistake from that job threatens another apocalypse, so the family…0 - 6
Time Before Time (2021)Published 1 Jan 2021The best modern pick for readers who like time travel as a business with rules. In 2140, to escape a world with no future, people pay the Syndicate, a criminal organisation, to smuggle them back in time to a better life. The story centres on two career criminals who steal their employer's time…0 - 7
Booster Gold (2007)Published 1 Jan 200752 Pick-Up, issues #1–6 by Geoff Johns, Jeff Katz and Dan Jurgens, 2007
The time-travelling hero from tomorrow turns down Justice League membership to help Rip Hunter police the timelines, while a villain exploits the damaged time stream hoping to eliminate the world's greatest heroes. The clever…0 - 8
Avengers Forever (1998)Published 1 Jan 1998The 1998 to 1999 series by Kurt Busiek, Roger Stern and Carlos Pacheco
The superhero entry for readers who enjoy a timeline being tidied as much as broken. Immortus, Master of Time, and the Time-Keepers set out to destroy Rick Jones, and a team of Avengers pulled from different points in their…0 - 9
Meanwhile (2010)Published 1 Jan 2010Jason Shiga's pick-a-path comic puts the timeline in your hands. You follow thin tubes and tabs from panel to panel, forwards, backwards and upside down, choosing as you go among 3,856 story possibilities that take in time machines, doomsday devices and quantum physics.
For a paradox lover this is…0 - 10
Here (2014)★ 9.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2014The wild card: no machine, no traveller, and still the most radical treatment of time here. Richard McGuire fixes the view on a single corner of one room and lets it become many things across thousands of years, with frames from different moments opening inside the page, some reaching backwards and…0
