Written by: Jeff Lemire, Emi Lenox, Jordie Bellaire
First line: ...another busy night in Metro City as the Bang Bang Gang tried to crash the mayor's Annual Harvest Gala.
Why you should read this book: Five children become entangled with each other and bound by a secret when they stumble upon the body of a fallen superhero in the woods. They have different ideas about how to handle this situations, and different motivations for their reasoning, and different stressors at home that guide their worldviews. A parallel story interweaves the life of the fallen superhero and how she came to be lying where these kids find her.
Why you shouldn't read this book: I guess I didn't quite "get" the ending, which seemed to suggest that one child's behavior was worse than the others and deserving of terrible punishment, but then I saw that this is volume one of five, so perhaps there's more that I'm missing.
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