Comic Review: Butterfly Hardcover

This was originally posted as a review for Word of the Nerd. Reposted here with slight modifications.

• Created and story by Arash Amel
• Written by Marguerite Bennett
• Illustrated by Antonio Fuso (chapters 1 and 2) and Stefano Simeone (chapters 3 and 4)
• Colored by Adam Guzowski
• Lettered by Steve Wands
• Published by Archaia

I first picked up Butterfly after seeing the first issue on the shelf, the cover grabbing my attention. As it came out in single issues, I liked the story, but as with any short miniseries, there's always the feeling that you need to get it all together to really get the full story. Now that the hardcover collected edition is out, this is a good time to go back to Butterfly­ and take a closer look.

Comic Review: Plutona #1

• Story by Jeff Lemire and Emi Lenox
• Script by Jeff Lemire
• Art by Emi Lenox
• Colors by Jordie Bellaire
• Letters by Steve Wands
• Published by Image Comics

Plutona is being sold as a comic about superheroes, but it's really only about it using a wide definition of the term. There are superheroes in the world, and they interact with the story, but they're not the main thing that it's about. In the end, none of that really matters, as it's in the areas other than basic premise that this story sticks out.