The graphic novel fan:
Back in the 1980s, I oversaw a special issue of Book World devoted to contemporary comics and graphic novels, then a newly hot genre spearheaded by works as different as Harvey Pekar's "American Splendor," Art Spiegelman's "Maus" and Alan Moore's "Watchmen." Still, the graphic novel I most vividly recall from that era is Frank Miller's now legendary and immensely influential "Ronin." A trans-temporal samurai-action adventure only begins to describe it, but — unusually for comics — there was no sequel. Until now. In "Ronin Rising" (Abrams), Miller — joined by Philip Tan, Daniel Henriques and John Workman — focuses on an accursed female warrior, an evil and sentient AI, and, to quote a promotional brochure's understated description, "a postapocalyptic biotech war in the demon-teeming pits of a twenty-first century New York." It can hardly get any better than that.
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