what comics should I be reading?

[ursula]

My more ambitious weekend plans were derailed by a stronger-than-anticipated reaction to the updated Moderna vaccine (nothing major, I just wasn't anticipating anything more than a sore arm), so instead of cooking a complicated layered thing with polenta and eggplant, I ordered sushi and read the final volume of The Wicked + the Divine on the back deck, watching a combination of sunset and stormclouds illuminate the neighbor's fluffy pine.

This means I am out of comic! And--rare and fortunate in the present day--I have a really good local comic store on my walk home from work. What should I read next?

Some parameters:

• I'm finding I really like reading a longer arc one collected volume at a time.
  
• I haven't historically been a comics reader, so you can suggest obvious things.
  
• I'm not really into superheroes, and don't intend to start.
  

Comments

[psocoptera]

None of these are a longer arc with multiple volumes, so, so much for my reading comprehension, but I would like to recommend:

Queen of the Sea, Dylan Meconis. Alternate history coming of age, set in a convent on a small island, involving alt-history equivalents of Henry VIII and Elizabeth. A lot of really rich detail.

The Legend of Auntie Po, Shing Yin Khor. Historical fantasy set in a logging camp in CA in 1885.

The Magic Fish, Trung Le Nguyen. Emigration, family, and fairy tales.

The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor, Shaenon Garrity and Christopher Baldwin. SFF action-adventure comedy.

These are all middlegrade or YA, from the past five years. Going back further in time and not YA, Ursula Vernon's Digger is a neat fantasy-adventure, although I don't know whether a comic shop would have that. Ben Wilgus's Chronin, writing as Alison Wilgus, for time-traveling cross-dressing samurai - that's actually a duology. Delilah Dirk, swashbuckling historical fantasy, there's like three of those - my favorite was the first one. Hereville, about an 11-year-old troll-fighting Orthodox Jewish girl, there's also three of those. (Now we're back in middlegrade.) No idea whether any of these are in print/in stores.