Seductress

Bursting onto the scene in 2005 courtesy of creators Hugh Sterbakov and Leonard Kirk, Seductress is a Modern Age Image Comics creation who debuted in the pages of Freshmen — a series with a distinctly irreverent, campus-life energy that set it apart from the superhero mainstream. She shares her world with a wonderfully offbeat cast including Pusher, Puppeteer, The Beaver, and Paula Pophouse, the kind of colorful ensemble that made Freshmen such a cult favorite of the mid-2000s indie scene. Though her catalog footprint across Freshmen, the Summer Vacation Special, and the Freshmen Yearbook is a compact nine appearances, there's real charm in discovering a character like this — a snapshot of Image's adventurous storytelling spirit during a creatively fertile era. For collectors hunting the quirkier corners of 2000s comics, Seductress is exactly the kind of find that makes diving into a complete run so rewarding.