Heroes #1

This handsome 2008 collection brings together the comics companion to the hit television series Heroes, uniting a sprawling cast of extraordinary individuals across its pages. Alex Ross's painted cover captures the ensemble beautifully — a richly lit composition of men and women pressed together in dramatic chiaroscuro, a gleaming katana slicing diagonally through the foreground as faces ranging from determined to wary fill every corner of the frame. With stories written by Aron Eli Coleite and art from Michael Turner, Koi Turnbull, and a talented creative team, Volume One is a compelling entry point into this world of hidden powers and moral complexity.