Outlanders #18

Johji Manabe's Outlanders reaches its eighteenth installment from Dark Horse, and the cover makes a striking impression: a green-haired, horned warrior woman clutches a gleaming blade against a deep, star-filled cosmic backdrop, her jeweled armor and fierce expression radiating quiet intensity. Manabe handles both pencils and inks himself here, and that unified touch gives the figure a crisp, confident energy that fans of his work will recognize immediately. At a generous 40 pages with no ads, this issue offers a satisfying chunk of Manabe's science-fantasy world.