Grrl Scouts: Work Sucks #3

Jim Mahfood's Grrl Scouts: Work Sucks #3 from Image Comics brings the series' sharp, graffiti-inflected black-and-white style to a wonderfully laid-back cover: a tough, cigarette-dangling young woman in a "Schoolly D" shirt lounges atop the hood of a car, a massive boombox front and center, while a stray cat prowls the alley backdrop. It's a snapshot of slacker cool with genuine edge — the kind of street-level attitude that made this series stand out from the Image crowd in the early 2000s. If you dig hip-hop aesthetics, underground comics energy, and art with real personality, this one belongs on your shelf.