Titan Comics is Releasing ADLER: VOLUME 1 This Month
If you’re a fan of the comic series Adler, or if you’ve been wanting to read the series from Titan Comics, you’re in luck. All five issues of writer Lavie Tidhar’s and artist Paul McCaffrey’s comic will be collected in Adler Volume 1. The comic follows Irene Adler teaming up with other famous females from various fields including Jane Eyre to defeat a criminal mastermind.
It’s the League of Extraordinary Gentlewomen, as Adler teams up with a host of famous female faces from science, history and literature to defeat the greatest criminal mastermind of all time.
1902. Wounded in the Boer War, Jane Eyre returns to a London transmogrified by emerging modernity. An old friend, the glamorous inventor Lady Havisham, introduces her to the American adventuress Irene Adler, and the two seek lodging together. But Adler is engaged in a brutal secret war against a mortal enemy of the British Empire: Ayesha, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, who seeks revenge against the colonisers who destroyed her country. And Jane, not unwilling, is swept up in the case.
As Queen Victoria holds on to her throne with the help of experimental new medicine, Adler and Ayesha both fight for the secret weapon developed by the scientist Madame Curie. And as Ayesha and her amazons (not to mention her pet assassin Carmilla) take over the London underworld, Adler must form a team of determined women to stop them – before the Empire is destroyed.
I missed this series when it first released, but I’m very excited to give it a try now. The art looks fantastic, and the story just sounds really fun. Fans can read Adler Volume 1 starting March 30 with pre-orders now available at bookstores, comic shops, Amazon, comiXology (affiliate link), and Forbidden Planet.
