Pretty Deadly, Vol. 1: The Shrike

This is suffered a bit from what many Image books do - DeConnick has grand, epic ambitions for this book (in the proper Homeric sense of the word, I expect), and that requires a fair amount of setup, which is what we get here. As with many Image books, I expect that the action will really kick up with the next volume.

As set up goes, though, this is pretty fantastic. DeConnick draws from a lot of old mythology - Hades and Persephone, and Coyote, and other tales, and wraps them in a beautifully depicted weird west tale. It's sexy, it's dangerous - Pretty Deadly was the perfect title for this work.