Alex + Ada is an American comic book series created by Jonathan Luna and Sarah Vaughn.

The duo began work on the series in January 2013, before publishing 15 issues through Image Comics between November 2013 and June 2015.

Jonathan Luna had previously created comics with his brother Joshua, but was exhausted after six straight years of work.

[1] During his two years away from comics, he painted Star Bright and the Looking Glass, a fairy tale picture book that was proofread by his friend Sarah Vaughn and published in 2012.

[3] He and his brother had decided to work on separate projects, so Luna pitched the idea of a young man who falls in love with a female android to Vaughn over dinner.

Tired of seeing him unhappy, Alex's grandmother sends him Ada, a Tanaka X-5 android which is capable of intelligent human interaction.

The robot is initially incapable of self-awareness, as each android has a program that blocks any potential free thought or consciousness.

Alex decides to remove this inhibition and grant Ada her own mental freedom, as he is uninterested in a partner who cannot truly interact with him.

[17] Writing for Bloody Disgusting, Lonnie Nadler said Luna's work on facial expressions was the "major highlight" of his illustrations.