History ComicBook / Prophet

* AllThereInTheManual: Subverted – lots of technical info (such as cutaways of structures and labels identifying specific technologies) is inserted directly into the art, without interrupting the actual plot or dialogue. It's largely justified because of just how complex the universe of Prophet is.

John Prophet was the ultimate warrior for TheEmpire. He was so valued by the Empire that he was cloned. Thousands of times. Now, thousands of years later, that the Empire has fallen into disrepair, these sleeper clones are activated to help reestablish this vast interstellar power, carrying out individual missions and sometimes teaming up with other clones to help their Queen. The only thing in the way of their shared mission? An ancient, warrior John Prophet, who is assembling his own [[TheAlliance Rebel Alliance]] to fight off the return of the Empire.

!!This graphic novel series provides examples of:

* TimeAbyss: The story is set well over 10,000 years in the future, when Earth has been colonized by aliens and the human race has become a militaristic empire of bioengineered clones. Some issues reveal the backstory of the extremely long-lived characters, showing (for example) how a small boy growing up in 1920s rural America became the immortal cyborg Diehard.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted, [[{{Youngblood}} Diehard]] is a recurring character and by this point of time all of his organic components are long gone; he's part of the [[TheAlliance Rebel Alliance]] and a sympathetic character. Other robotic and cyborg characters are shown helping the protagonists.

* ContinuityNod: One of Badrock's (from {{Youngblood}}) kids shows up as a [[BabyPlanet small planet]].
** In the latter half of the series a number of {{Youngblood}} characters have appeared, all in radically different form. Suprema [[spoiler: is a being of pure light living inside a seashell planet]]. Supreme [[spoiler: is dead and is used as a power source for the woman army]]. Troll is an enigmatic mystical figure guiding certain Prophets. Diehard is of course a main character and is at one point given an orb with an image of the original Youngblood team.

''Prophet'' is an American comic book series published by ImageComics, written by BrandonGraham (creator of ''ComicBook/KingCity'' and ''Multiple Warheads'') and illustrated mostly by Simon Roy, Farel Dalrymple and Giannis Milonogiannis.

* ContinuityReboot: An odd example, the new series is completely different stylistically and in another genre from the 90 series but is still within the same continuity just in the far, far distant future.

The series is a sort of ContinuityReboot of Creator/RobLiefeld's character of the same name (the new series starts at issue 21). Liefeld's John Prophet was a 1920's vagrant bio-engineered to be the ultimate soldier for an evil magnate, then secretly reprogrammed by his creator to do good, all while hopping around time and losing his memory.

The series is a sort of ContinuityReboot of RobLiefeld's character of the same name (the new series starts at issue 21). Liefeld's John Prophet was a 1920's vagrant bio-engineered to be the ultimate soldier for an evil magnate, then secretly reprogrammed by his creator to do good, all while hopping around time and losing his memory.

''Prophet'' is an American comic book series published by ImageComics, written by BrandonGraham (creator of KingCity and Multiple Warheads) and illustrated mostly by Simon Roy, Farel Dalrymple and Giannis Milonogiannis.

John Prophet was the ultimate warrior for TheEmpire. He was so valued by the Empire that he was cloned. Thousands of times. Now, thousands of years later, that the Empire has fallen into disrepair, these sleeper clones are activated to help reestablish this vast interstellar power, carrying out individual missions and sometimes teaming up with other clones to help their Queen. The only thing in the way of their shared mission? The original John Prophet, who is assembling his own [[TheAlliance Rebel Alliance]] to fight off the return of the Empire.

* {{Determinator}}: All of the Prophets, but especially the original. However, the newer Prophet clones are conditioned to fight to the death for the Earth Empire, while the original Prophet is a free man with a personal grudge against the Empire.

* DecoyProtagonist: At the end of the first story arc, the wandering John Prophet on Earth is shown to be just one of millions of John clones – and the true protagonist of the story only emerges later, when the [[spoiler:original John Prophet is released from his slumber on an alien world and begins fighting back against his former Earth masters.]]

* HumansAreCthulhu / HumansAreTheRealMonsters: 10,000 years in the future, the human race as we know it no longer exists – now it is a fanatical empire of warrior clones led by posthuman cyborg-brains, feared across the universe as a threat to all other sentient life. Although the original human John Prophet is depicted as a hero, most of his allies are aliens and robots, not actual humans.

** When the original John Prophet awakes, he is referred to by a variety of impressive names.

* CloningBlues: Averted. While the main cast are all clones of John Prophet, there is very little angst about this. In fact, in the the comic's bizarre and alien world, the prophets cling to their "brothers",

* CreepyChild: The Arch-Mothers are humans with huge brains and tiny atrophied bodies; the psychic projections that they use to command the Prophet Clones resemble ghostly little girls.

-->"Friend of the Scale, The Unkillable Knife, The Wave Crester, The Spiral Jumper. The Lord of the Wolf-Rayet Star. The Old Man, Great Grey Grandfather Jonathon Prophet has awoken."

* OppositeSexClone: A few of the Johns introduced so far have been female.

* AllThereInTheManual: Subverted – lots of technical info (such as cutaways of structures and labels identifying specific technologies) is inserted directly into the story, without interrupting the actual plot or dialogue. It's largely justified because of just how complex the universe of Prophet is.

* {{HumansAreCthulhu}}/{{HumansAreTheRealMonsters}}: 10,000 years in the future, the human race as we know it no longer exists – now it is a fanatical empire of warrior clones led by posthuman cyborg-brains, feared across the universe as a threat to all other sentient life. Although the original human John Prophet is depicted as a hero, most of his allies are aliens and robots, not actual humans.

* {{HumansAreCthulhu}}/}{{HumansAreTheRealMonsters}}: 10,000 years in the future, the human race as we know it no longer exists – now it is a fanatical empire of warrior clones led by posthuman cyborg-brains, feared across the universe as a threat to all other sentient life. Although the original human John Prophet is depicted as a hero, most of his allies are aliens and robots, not actual humans.

* HumansAreCthulhu/HumansAreCthulhu: 10,000 years in the future, the human race as we know it no longer exists – now it is a fanatical empire of warrior clones led by posthuman cyborg-brains, feared across the universe as a threat to all other sentient life. Although the original human John Prophet is depicted as a hero, most of his allies are aliens and robots, not actual humans.

* HumansAreCthulhu: 10,000 years in the future, the human race as we know it no longer exists – now it is a fanatical empire of warrior clones led by posthuman cyborg-brains, feared across the universe as a threat to all other sentient life.