Despite all the social media buzz on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat (just starting to learn this one to my daughter’s chagrin), I still find the best way to find something new to read is to browse the Indie Rack. This morning, taking a break from work, and sneaking over to the comic book store for a few minutes, I stumbled across Graduate from Overground Comics—a line of comics from a new publishing company, started and owned by Jon Hughes.

Celia Calle’s warped and stretched out bug-eyed cover art was what first caught my eye, but it was Hughe’s vision statement on the back cover that sealed the deal. He proposes to give us time: “[t]he characters and the world … are finite … [e]very day that you age, so do they.”

It’s a slim volume, and the selling price is steep at $3.99, given the low page count–it took me less then five minutes to read through it. Nonetheless, this publisher definitely has my attention. I don’t want to say much, since I’d end up spoiling Natalie’s story, which unfolded quickly on her court ordered trip to super hero training; but I’m sure you too will be left wondering if she’ll become a court mandated super-heroine, and whether someone like her, impervious to harm, can really age.

I look forward to Hughes’s take on Super Hero time management, and this one is now added to my pull list. I just hope the characters get old and decrepit before I do.

Story: Jon Hughes Art: Celia Calle
Story: 8 Art: 8 Overall: 8 Recommendation: Buy