Big Girls #1 introduces the concept fluidly, concisely, and with grace, feeding the reader all of the information they need to know very quickly so that the rest of the comic can focus on answering the book’s core What If? question. Jason Howard is terrific as both a writer and an artist, delivering scenes of immense horror and heart-pounding action as he pits a giant woman, tasked with keeping “the Preserve” (a sanctuary city for humanity, essentially) safe, against the equally large monstrosities attempting to get inside. While the action and creature design is every bit as intriguing as Howard’s impeccable writing, there is a shocking scene in the middle of the book that is a major show-stopper. Big Girls is not a gentle book, and it plays on where readers will generally expect a story to draw the line… and then, it blows the line’s brains out.

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