Army of One Vol. 1 by Tony LeeMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
My library doesn't have the greatest selection of graphic novels, so when I see something that looks interesting, I tend to snatch it up. This fit the bill, and was pleasantly surprising.
This reminded me a bit of Paper Girls, although we haven't (or haven't yet) starting moving between times--we're moving between universes. Also, instead of four main characters there is one: Carrie Taylor. (Although since there are several multiversal variants of Carrie Taylor, we do still have a Paper Girls-like central group.)
This rather frantically paced story takes place over twenty-four hours (or less) and thoroughly upends Carrie's life: instead of a misfit high school girl worried over her best-friend-sans-crush, and glum over the anniversary of her parents' deaths, she is thrust into a horrifying new reality of ancient sorcerers, alternate universes, several different versions of herself, and being pursued by bald shambling zombie-like creatures. She finds out she is a "shard"--one of several reborn remnants of a sorceress that died centuries ago--or is she? And her beloved grandmother is not really her grandmother, but is perhaps another grown-up "shard" set to watch over her. And Carrie sees the ancient sorceress she supposedly splintered from as a blue ghost following her, and meets the sorceress's brother, who may or may not be her mortal enemy. Also, she gets killed at the end, shot in the head, and is reborn into the brain-dead body of one of her fellow "shards."
This is quite the interesting setup, frankly. The art is bright and vibrant and easy to follow (although the one drawback is that the sorceress Sister Fortune's word balloons are red on black, making them incredibly hard to read). I hadn't heard of this series before, but I'm definitely going to follow it now.
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