Why It’s Cool: I Hate Fairyland is getting ready to make a return, so why not try out the original? This book (which I thought was excellent) is the type of read where you will know almost from the first chapter whether it’s for you. Join her and her giant battleaxe on a delightfully bloodsoaked journey to see who will survive the girl who HATES FAIRYLAND. Follow Gert, a forty-year-old woman in a sixyear- old's body, who has been stuck in the magical world of Fairyland for nearly thirty years. An Adventure Time/Alice in Wonderland-style epic that smashes its cute little face against grown-up Tank Girl/ Deadpool-esque violent madness. Why It’s Cool: John Ridley is all over comics, writing everything from I Am Batman to Black Panther, but the American Way was (as far as I know) his first work in the medium, and it remains a great read today, telling the story of a Black man with superpowers who fights crime within a system that is rigged against him.įrom superstar writer and artist SKOTTIE YOUNG (Rocket Raccoon, Wizard of Oz, Fortunately, The Milk), comes the first volume of an allnew series of adventure and mayhem. In a nation being torn apart, what does it mean to fight for the American way? Somewhere in the middle stands Jason Fisher, who has remained a crime-fighter even as evidence mounts that he is accomplishing nothing besides propping up a system that’s rigged against him as a black man in America. Amber Eaton-formerly known as Amber Waves-has become a domestic terrorist, using her powers to infiltrate and destroy the country’s centers of power. Ole Miss-is transitioning from the First Lady of Mississippi into a candidate for governor and defender of a vanishing and hateful way of life. And now, 10 years after the CDC was torn apart by racism, infighting and murder, the Corps’ surviving members find themselves pulled in very different directions. He and his teammates in the Civil Defense Corps were real-life superheroes.Įxcept that it was all a fraud. In 1962 Jason Fisher was given astonishing powers by the United States government-powers he used to defend the nation as the New American.
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