I also picked up the first trade of The Beauty from Image by Jeremy Haun, Jason A Hurley, John Rauch and Fonografiks is an awesome, dark, wild wonderful book that I got turned onto because I follow Jeremy Haun on social media, and I enjoyed his work on Batwoman greatly, plus his book Wolf Moon, and his kickstarted anthology project Bad Karma. This book is about a disease that is catching, and for all the wrong reasons. A sexually transmitted disease is discovered, but instead of the normal discomfort, or possible death involved, this disease makes you perfect, it makes you handsome and fit, toned and tan and looking like a million bucks. If you think that sounds great- then it is probably good that this isn’t real, because there is a catch (there’s always a catch) and this one is a doozy- people with this disease (called “The Beauty”) are dying, but not just in any mundane, old-fashioned way… no, people who have this disease are dying by spontaneous human combustion. Sheesh! Wicked right?!?
The art on this book is fantastic, and I got drawn into the first issue because my favorite cover artist Jenny Frison did a gorgeous and terrifying variant cover, and I had to have it. From there, I kept reading the series digitally, but I knew I had to have this trade, so I picked it up with my usual pulls this week, and want to push this collected edition of the first full story arc as my recommended trade of the week!
Go check this book out- it is really unlike anything else out there, and it is really compelling and interesting stuff, and the first arc ends with a nice bit of finality for our cast of characters, but leaves things wide open for more stories to be told; and I for one, cannot WAIT for more…