Monstress, Volume One: Awakening OM and friends are extraordinary

and friends are extraordinary

'It is an incredible achievement of intelligent social storytelling… the book is highly progressive

painted with ink

while Mouse tries to figure out when it will finally be time to go home

Monstress, Volume One: Awakening OM and friends are extraordinaryBy Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda. Published by Image. Softcover, 202 pages, Colour, 2018. Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900s Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco inflected steampunk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both. Entertainment Weekly praised MONSTRESS as one of