Calamity Kate #2
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Publisher Description
From the Eisner and GLAAD Media Award-nominated writer of the breakout hit Kim & Kim and DC Comics' Eternity Girl with Gerard Way and artist on IDW's Ghostbusters and X-Files comes this modern day adventure of heroes and monsters.
After the mysterious Javelin starts sniping Kate's monster kills, Kate can't seem to get her out of her head. As the one-sided rivalry continues, Kate can't help but feel that there's some connection between Javelin and her ex-wife Sandra, which is throwing her whole process into chaos.
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A whirlwind plot and fierce, high-contrast artwork combine winningly in this gambol about combating supernatural foes and inner demons alike. After experiencing a loss and deciding to reboot her life, Kate Strand turns up on the doorstep of the Los Angeles home of her old friend Vera, whom she hasn't seen in years, immediately sharing how she determined to become the superheroine she'd always dreamed of being: a monster killer named Calamity. "I packed up, left my job... and drove west in an old Continental and just started hunting monsters," she explains. (They're quite the infestation, it seems, and one just "hit an elementary school in Alameda last week," Vera remarks.) But from grappling with new relationships to facing her competition (another monster hunter, called Javelin), along the way in her quest to defeat the legendary Seven Fabled Beasts of Yore, Calamity learns the hard way that maybe her low sense of self-worth and lingering unhappiness can't be killed as easily as the monsters swarming around her. Visaggio (the Eternity Girl series) is a dynamo at complex scripting through well-realized, quippy dialogue and focusing, amid all the dramatic action, on characters' emotions. It can get heavy, but for fans of modern-day fantasy, this playful saga proves its versatility with both its brawls and character study.
