Black Hammer - Vergessene Helden

In 2018, German publisher Splitter Verlag brought Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston's Eisner Award–winning superhero saga to a new audience with Black Hammer – Vergessene Helden. This single-issue launch, co-scripted by Katrin Aust, introduces the series' core mystery: a group of Golden Age–style heroes trapped for years on a bizarre, idyllic farm, their memories of the outside world fading. Ormston's moody, expressive art grounds the story's mix of cosmic strangeness and human melancholy, while Lemire and Aust's writing balances nostalgia with a quiet, character-driven tragedy. As the beginning of a celebrated run, this issue matters for establishing the intimate, deconstructive tone that made Black Hammer a modern classic of creator-owned comics.