The Adventures of Venus #[nn]

From Gilbert Hernandez comes this cheerful, energetic volume featuring Venus — a bright-eyed, blonde-haired girl in a black-and-red soccer uniform, mid-stride and all smiles as she races alongside a soccer ball on a sun-bleached field. Hernandez's clean, expressive linework gives the cover an immediately welcoming cartoon warmth that feels right at home in the 2012 Fantagraphics catalog. If you're looking for something lively and lighthearted from one of comics' most versatile storytellers, this one's hard to pass up.