Cleopatra in Space is an American children's graphic novel series drawn and written since 2014 by Mike Maihack, and published by Graphix, a division of Scholastic.

The premise of the series is that a teenaged Queen Cleopatra is brought to the far future to attend school and fight a space tyrant together with her friends Akila and Brian.

As Cleopatra reads out a prophecy on the tablet, a bright light flashes, and she finds herself instantly transported thousands of years into the future, to the planet Mayet in the Ailuros System within the Nile Galaxy, which is populated by sentient cats, aliens and humans alike.

Khepra explains that Cleopatra is their prophesied savior from Xaius Octavian, a brutal dictator, and his army, the Xerx, after him having erased all electronically stored knowledge in the galaxy.

Four months later, the Cat Council, pressed into action by Octavian's inexorable advance on Ailuros, decides to test Cleopatra by having her retrieve an ancient artefact from its hiding place, despite Khensu's objections.

Despite her lack of experience, and with a good deal of luck, Cleopatra manages to gain the object, which is the black khopesh she and Gozi had found in the past.

The trio enlists the reluctant aid of Khensu, who takes Zaid along as a decoy to commandeer a transport to planet Hykosis, a nest of scum and pirates at the edge of Ailuros, where they expect to find the tablets.

After reaching Hykosis, they infiltrate its capital and encounter Antony being cornered by bounty hunters, led by one Fod Franze, after Octavian posted a reward on his head.

As they enter, Octavian reveals that after he learned of Cleopatra's presence in this timeline, he planted hints (including the fake sword) to compel her to find the tablets for him.

As they reach the tablet and Cleopatra reads the full prophecy on it, she learns that she is apparently destined to die in her final fight against Octavian, which Khensu knew about.

However, after the deliberation is over, Kek, one of the Council members, secretly gives Cleopatra a FTL device which will allow her to reach Caca'duun in time, and she is further equipped by Brian.

Right after landing, Cleopatra is attacked by an immature giant ice spider until Antony, who is also after the Golden Lion, happens upon the scene and saves her.

After spending some time recuperating, they discover the Golden Lion in the village's close proximity, which is the source of warmth for this hidden haven.

While Cleopatra, Antony and the villagers defend themselves, Ophois proceeds to the Golden Lion and breaks the rock crust covering it, causing the ground to crack up into a number of plasma-filled clefts.

In the aftermath, it is decided that the Golden Lion should remain at its present location, since its removal would destroy the oasis; Tuluk and Sina stay behind as part of the P.Y.R.A.M.I.D.

Soon afterward, it is revealed that Antony was tasked to find the Golden Lion by Octavius, in return for sparing the orphanage and rescinding the bounty on his head.

He was found by other aliens, who reconstructed his body as one of their own; he built a new life until it was all destroyed by constant warfare, and in his bitter desire for revenge he consigned his soul to Anubis.

After using it to construct a powerful weapon, Octavian test-fires it on Hykosis City; Antony has just enough time to evacuate the orphanage before the settlement is destroyed.

When she awakens the next day, Brian explains to her and Akila that the power, which he previously assumed to be a side effect of Cleopatra's transit to the future, is something which he has not encountered before.

Based on what has happened and an idea by Antony, Cleopatra theorizes that this power acts as a sort of warning system, and concludes that Octavian is not dead and that he may launch an attack soon.

Asking to speak with Talibath in private, she informs the councilor of her suspicions, who heeds her warning and promises to check the shield one more time before its launch.

Cleopatra taps into the Golden Lion power core on the ship, absorbing its energy and destroying it, but refuses to kills Octavian.

One of his other ships bombards Yasiro Academy, but just in time Yosira gives the order to evacuate the school, whose edifices are launched into space.

lands on Thonis, a largely barren planet protected by a cloaking shield which is powered by a fragment of the Golden Lion's plasma, secured by Sina and Tuluk, who escaped Octavian's takeover of Caca'duun.

As Cleopatra reads it, she recites a magic formula, and she, Antony and Brian - who were standing close to her - are transported to Duat, a dark shadow world, where they encounter Thoth, albeit in the shape of a gorilla instead of an ibis-headed man.

Since her new office entailed that she could be exploited by mortals to gain immortality, he gave her a sword which would banish a soul wounded by it into the nothingness of his realm if she was ever threatened.

and the academy students fight back; their bravery triggers Yosira's determination, causing her to activate her inherited divine power for the first time and destroy part of Octavian's army.

While Yosira is hailed as the new Queen of the Nile, the discharge hurls Cleopatra back to the past, to the point of time when the space pirates had attacked her home and kidnapped Gozi and Bakkari.

"[7] Maihack's other comics were also reviewed positively, some calling Secret of the Time Tablets an all ages "sci-fi series full of pizzazz, high energy, and lots of questions to answer"[8] and The Golden Lion as having beautiful illustrations, complete with a "terrific cast of characters that continue to evolve.

"[11] On 11 September 2020, Daniel Toy described Target Practice on CNN's Underscored an "action-packed journey through space and time that will excite any young reader" and called the rest of the series "out of this world.