Jonathan Jones

As summer creeps ever closer, now is the perfect time to pick up Clara & the Devil Vol. 1. Just as the coming heat invites us to shed our excess layers, writer Olivie Blake and artist Little Chmura tease us with a perfectly mediocre life on the precipice of a great awakening. Originally published serially on Webtoon, Vol. 1 collects the initial four episodes as a paperback graphic novel from 23rd St. Books, a Macmillan Publishers imprint.

Emma Frost is a woman with a messy past. Emma Frost: The White Queen – All Hail the Queen is a snapshot into that past, following a political drama in the Hellfire Club’s Inner Circle, years before Miss Frost’s career as an X-Man. The 2025 limited series was created by Amy Chu, Andrea Di Vito, Antonio Fabela, David Nakayama, VC’s Ariana Maher, and Martin Biro, and it’s collected in this trade paperback edition by Jennifer Grünwald, Daniel Kirchhoffer, Lisa Montalbano, Adam Del Re, and Jay Bowen.

Control is at the center of Magik Vol.2: Shadows of Resistance. Illyana Rasputina’s latest trade paperback arrives this week from Ashley Allen, Jesús Hervás, Germán Peralta, Matt Horak, Arthur Hesli, Pablo Villalobos, VC’s Ariana Maher, and Darren Shan, and was collected at Marvel by Jennifer Grünwald, Daniel Kirchhoffer, Lisa Montalbono, Stacie Zucker, Adam Del Re, and Jay Bowen. Recently, Illyana has reached a new understanding of herself and the nature of Darkchild.