Concrete Park, Volume 1

March 1, 2015
Isaac's done a lot of killing, and his past just caught up with his little sister. Luca's shaking her own past, but she's snared in a frame-up and running for her life. Monkfish is a shapeshifter who can't get enough of being other people. They've all been sentenced to exile in Scare City, a desert planet converted into an urban war zone. With its strong characters, gritty street-level action, and graphic sex all pulsing to life in a big, swaggering, graffiti-inspired graphic style, Concrete Park is a unique piece of work. Filled completely with a minority cast and featuring a powerful woman at its center, it's already staking out its own territory, and it is also geared toward a readership that is seldom so richly or bracingly depicted in comics. Though this is pitched to an adult audience, older teensnot just the fans of Grand Theft Auto or the ones who like the voluptuous woman on the coverwon't be able to keep their hands off it.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)