Monstress Vol. 2: The Blood Portfolios he has to wonder if

he has to wonder if he hasn't been a pawn of technology all along

Lawrence Gong

In Things From The Flood

Forty outlaws are lined up at the starting line: Billy Joe

Realistic depictions and sophisticated compositions had been curiously absent before him

Monstress Vol. 2: The Blood Portfolios he has to wonder ifNEW YORK TIMES This series is impossible to classify; genre elements mingle in mythical and gleefully subversive ways. The story's protagonist, Maika Halfwolf, is descended from an ancient immortal called the Queen of Wolves quite literally an anthropomorphic wolf. Maika has only one arm, though sometimes she wears a magical clockwork prosthetic; hidden in the stump is a squiggly, many eyed monstrosity that periodically pops out and eats people. Her