Black Hammer Library Edition #1

Dean Ormiston's painted cover sets an immediately haunting tone: a young girl in a blue dress hovers weightlessly above the earth while a bearded old man in red sprawls on the ground before a fallen black hammer, and behind them loom an unsettling assembly — a mechanical figure with a domed head, a shadowy cloaked specter, a suited man, and a horned red figure — all gathered against a murky, overgrown backdrop. This 2018 library edition collects Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormiston's Will Eisner Award-winning series, a melancholy, character-driven deconstruction of superhero mythology that earned the title "Best New Series" of 2017. If you've been waiting for the right entry point into one of the decade's most quietly affecting superhero stories, this handsome hardcover volume is a wonderful place to start.