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Written by Sarah Gailey, drawn by Liana Kangas, colored by Rebecca Nalty, and lettered by Cardinal Rae, Know Your Station introduces a world in which the wealthiest people on Earth have abandoned its ravaged shores for space, leaving behind anyone who can’t afford a first-class ticket to a brand new colony in the stars. Know Your Station #1 is easily the best first issue to hit shelves in 2022.

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This series is currently ongoing, with new issues released twice-monthly starting in January 2023. It’s often hard to find an ongoing superhero story that’s as friendly to newcomers as it is to years-long fans, so hats off to Adams and Pasarin for managing it.

This year, Adams and artist Fernando Pasarin created a truly enjoyable superhero comic with great emotional stakes, exciting character choices, and several jumping-on points for new readers and those who may have fallen off the series and want to come back. Heading into 2023, Linda has newly developed speedster powers and she’s pregnant, which means the West family is growing once again-even as the Flash Family faces its most deadly villain yet.īut that’s next year. Wally West has really been through the wringer in recent years at DC, but in the ongoing series The Flash, writer Jeremy Adams has given him (and readers) a much-needed break from all the horror to focus on Wally and the Flash Family, which includes his wife Linda and their twins, Iris and Jai. This is a gorgeous nonfiction read that stands out both for its unique format and its subject matter.

The interviewees in this book were teenagers during the Green Movement in 2009 (often referred to as the Persian Spring in western media), and their experiences color their current opinions significantly. Iranian Love Stories runs the gamut of opinions as expressed by its subjects, and it’s a nuanced and stunning look at how they view their own identities and authority, both familial and governmental. Deuxard use a pseudonym in order to protect the identities of their interview subjects, who put themselves and their families at risk by even agreeing to speak for the book. It collects a series of interviews with Iranian people between 20-30 years of age speaking on love, freedom, and politics (both in Iran and outside of it). The French graphic novel is written by a pair of journalists working under the pseudonym Jane Deuxard, with art by Deloupy. The Mary Sue Books Editor Alyssa Shotwell has written about Iranian Love Stories multiple times this year, and for good reason.

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