Gail Simone and Jon Davis-Hunt. Vertigo, $14.99 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-4012-6275-4
The premise of this bracing series launch from Simone (Birds of Prey) sounds familiar: a secretive, powerful, and celebrity-filled organization promises wisdom to all who follow its teachings. But the cult-like Honest World Foundation turns the...
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Gail Simone, Gilbert Hernandez et al. DC, $14.99 trade paper (168p) ISBN 978-1-4012-5344-8
This anthology of Wonder Woman stories is worthy of its sensational title. Each story features a different writer and artist, and though some of the plots struggle to rise above supervillain-of-the-week fisticuffs, there’s not a bum artist in the...
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Gail Simone and J. Calafiore. Dark Horse, $19.99 (144p.) ISBN 978-1-50670-049-6
Simone and Calafiore follow up on Leaving Megalopolis, the crowd-sourced first volume of this series, with another grim tale of metahumans gone wrong. The previous volume saw the island city of Megalopolis’s superpowered saviors changed into...
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Gail Simone and Cat Staggs. Image, $9.99 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-5343-0474-1
Simone (Clean Room) and Staggs (Star Trek) opt for brutal action over easy comedy in this excellent supernatural thriller series opener starring Chicago assassin Cason Ray Bennett and Seattle housewife Juniper Elanore Blue. Both are facing a...
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Kodansha. Kodansha, $29.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-63236-258-2
Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan, a grim sci-fi saga set in a world ravaged by man-eating giants, is currently the biggest manga in the U.S. There’s no clearer sign of its success than the level of talent from the Western comics industry lined up...
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Various. IDW, $50 (335p) ISBN 978-1-61377-147-1
This massive anthology, with more than 150 women creators, has so far been better known for its funding and—raising over $100,000 on Kickstarter—than for its content. That should change now that the book is here. There’s a wide variety of talented...
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Gail Simone. Orbit, $30 (384p) ISBN 978-0-316-47567-9
Veteran comics writer Simone’s triumphant debut novel, the title character of which was created by pulp novelist Robert E. Howard and later appeared in Marvel comics, quickly immerses readers in a lush fantasy world. At 10, Sonja is the sole...
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