The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

In this lush, five-issue miniseries from Boom! Studios, Ram V and Filipe Andrade craft a poignant meditation on mortality and creation. When the avatar of Death is fired after humanity discovers immortality, she takes a job at a Mumbai ice cream shop—only to learn she must now prevent a mortal from birthing the very concept of death itself. Andrade’s vibrant, watercolor-like art lends a dreamlike quality to this philosophical fable, which stands as one of the most distinctive and heartfelt comics of the early 2020s.