The Best American Comics #2014

In "Crime Raiders International Mobsters and Executioners," a series of unsettling phone calls from Mel Spropp draw Vivian Solis, aka “Frogmouth” Velvet, into a web of suspicion and danger. When a stray gunshot at her home leads to a bizarre encounter at the Cobia Club, Vivian finds herself caught between old allies and unseen threats, as the same weapon resurfaces in a deadly attempt on Mel’s life.

On the day of Barack Obama’s inauguration, Congressman John Lewis reflects on his journey from a rural Alabama farm to meeting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Nashville, where he embraced the principles of nonviolence and the social gospel. Through college, activism, and the courage to organize sit-ins at segregated lunch counters, Lewis faced resistance, arrests, and violence—yet slowly, change began to take hold. As he walks toward the inaugural ceremony, the weight of history and hope settles in, leaving him with a quiet resolve: "Don't get weary."