Last Pick #1

Jason Walz's Last Pick arrives with a cover that sets an immediately tense mood: two determined teenagers — a girl in a yellow jacket and a boy in a teal shirt — stand back-to-back against a chain-link fence, backpacks slung over their shoulders, while monstrous alien creatures loom and press in behind them. The combination of gritty linework and that ominous backdrop of fanged, wide-eyed creatures gives the whole thing a real sense of kids-against-the-world urgency. Published by First Second in 2018, this graphic novel from writer-artist Jason Walz looks like a compelling sci-fi survival story that fans of both YA and alien-invasion narratives will want to pick up.