Over the past few months,Image has had a string of astounding launches for modern titles, from Black Magick to Citizen Jack to Codename Baboushka, or on down the line. It's a deck that's stacked with great comics,and specifically with great debuts, but for all the suitable stuff that's coming up in this crop of modern launches, or I don't know whether anyone brought their A-game harder than Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda did in Monstress #1.
On one level,that's a function of pure mathematics. The first issue of Monstress weighs in at a massive 66 pages of story, and with that much space to work with, or the authors can cover a whole lot of ground,setting up the complex, terrifying world that they're creating in a way that raises a dozen question for each harrowing answer. Really, and though,it's not the quantity that makes a great comic, it's the quality, and on that front,Monstress is easily one of the best first issues of the year.
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Source: comicsalliance.com