I will not forget that I have forgotten*

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Anybody who is anybody will be following the announcements for new books coming out at Image soon. Books like Top Cow's Think Tank, a four issue miniseries about a scientific researcher, a third Phonogram series, Tony Harris drawing a 1930's Noir, Gangster, horror story!!, 2 books from Jonathan Hickman, another Jonathan Ross pwoject (this time with Bryan Hitch), the bizarrely controversial BKV return to comics, Saga, and Mara by Brian Wood and Ming Doyle.

The concept of Mara is as follows
The world of MARA is a war-and-fitness obsessed future, where the angst and insecurity of average citizens is compensated with an extreme focus on sports and battle. Mara Prince is a superbly gifted athlete, playing in a women's volleyball league, and is as famous as you can imagine, with endless endorsements, comped everything, and millions of screaming teenage fans. Until one day, during a highly visible match, she starts to manifest superpowers. For a culture that prizes physical achievement, conformity, and fair-minded sportsmanship, this puts Mara's entire world at risk.


On Saturday night, I tweeted Mara by Brian Wood is really interesting until it gets to the word "superhero" I'll still take a look at it when it comes out
Then I got a response from Brian Wood
have you read Demo?
I read the first one, I think, where the girl is having a panic attack in the car. I really enjoyed NY4-5 and Local
Mara is about superpowers like Demo is about superpowers.

So, off I went to get a look at Demo, which seems to be a series of one-shot stories. Comixology only has v.2 on it, and I picked up v2#3, which goes like this







With me so far? Marlo has some OCD and plots her life through post-its. Let's look at them again.



Demo v2.#3 was utterly charming and I really do recommend it. When I got to the end of the issue, I felt aggrieved, not because I hadn't got value for my money, but because I really wanted to find out how the story continued. I shall buy the rest of the series soon. I shall definitely be buying Mara.
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Comments

[pyynk]

Insanely excited about a volume 3 of Phonogram. I have a feeling I'll be double dipping on that one, getting single issues AND the trade. I'm too excited to wait 6 months for the whole thing to be out, but volumes 1 and 2 would be so lonely on the shelf.

So Tony Harris' book is finally coming out? Sweet!

[endis_ni]

Volume 3? Oh my YES!! Thank you, comics universe, for a brilliant birthday present.

[pyynk]

Yeah it's one of my go-to books for re-reads and it's one of my default presents as well. Know a DJ? Buy 'em a copy of Volume Two.