Sun Swan

Jaime Hernandez — the visionary half of the legendary Hernandez Brothers — introduced Sun Swan to readers in 2008's Love and Rockets: New Stories #1, a Modern Age gem from Fantagraphics that showcased his lifelong love of superhero mythology filtered through his uniquely humanist lens. Sun Swan moves in vivid company, sharing adventures with the likes of Vakka Boome, Boot Angel, Espectra Negra, Golden Girl, and Tasha across the Ti-Girls saga collected in God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls. She may have only a handful of catalog appearances, but every one of them carries the weight of Hernandez's craft — characters in his hands always feel fully inhabited, no matter how briefly they grace the page. For fans of indie comics that take the superhero genre seriously as myth and spectacle, Sun Swan is a name worth seeking out.