Free Planet Volume 1
A romantic, geopolitical space opera graphic novel
by Aubrey Sitterson & Jed Dougherty
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Pub Date Dec 09 2025 | Archive Date Oct 21 2025
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Description
The epic worldbuilding of Dune meets the romance and drama of Saga in this complex, action-packed space opera about the first completely free planet in human history.
In the wake of a grueling war of independence, a team of revolutionary heroes is tasked with defending their home and its uniquely potent energy source from multiple intergalactic superpowers intent on domination. But though they are each deeply committed to the dream of a free planet, they all have completely different ideas about what complete freedom actually entails. Faced with separatist movements, counterrevolutionaries, political deadlock, famine, equipment shortages, a looming trade war, violent attacks and wildly divergent ideas of how to handle each, can true freedom endure?
Informed by real-world research and extensive design work, Aubrey Sitterson (The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling, No One Left to Fight) and Jed Dougherty (Savage Hearts, Worlds’ Finest) have created a comic that functions as both literature and art object, a rumination on freedom, the sacrifices it demands, the discipline it requires and the authority that must arise in its absence.
Collects Free Planet issues #1-6.
Advance Praise
“FREE PLANET, a kind of space-politics-opera, brings shades of the cosmic imagination of Jack Vance, Jack Kirby, and Samuel Delany and Howard Chaykin’s great lost Empire – but with a special supercharged future-fictional-Wikipedia density of its own.”
— Jonathan Lethem (The Fortress of Solitude, Motherless Brooklyn)
"With notes of Warhammer 40k and Firefly, FREE PLANET is lusciously rendered, dense, political sci-fi, with a lot to say."
— Kieron Gillen (The Power Fantasy, The Wicked + The Divine)
“One of the hardest parts of making a comic book is the intense task of worldbuilding. FREE PLANET shrugs off that pressure, fully fleshed out for characters to explore and readers to witness, proving that Aubrey and Jed have what it takes to bring you to a place completely new and totally refreshing.”
— Daniel Warren Johnson (Transformers, The Moon is Following Us, Do A Powerbomb)
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781534335004 |
| PRICE | $16.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 152 |
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