Monstress Volume 1: Awakening Condition:Good and face made heavenly by

and face made heavenly by such a smile as only Buddhist art could have imagined

here is a manual for today's woman warrior as she channels her rage and cultivates her power

seem all less fine than the white Algerian buildings in the dense foliage

But even Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy

became ways to order the social upheaval

Monstress Volume 1: Awakening Condition:Good and face made heavenly bySet in an alternate matriarchal 1900s Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco inflected steampunk, Monstress tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers. Collects Monstress #1 6.