New Heroes for a New Age — Robin D. Laws

With 13 thrilling stories of threatened identity and vanquished disorder, this second volume of the New Hero series boasts a diverse cast of top writers who tear apart and recombine the limits of the serial adventure form. The memorable, original characters range from a feminist painter-mercenary to steampunk cowgirls to a mutant paladin of the semiotic apocalypse. These stories, by authors including Jesse Bullington, Alex Bledsoe, Matt Forbeck, Tobias S. Buckell, are matched with the artwork of four-time Eisner Awardwinning comic artist Gene Ha.