The Finder Library: Volume 2 by Carla Speed McNeil, Graphic Novel, 636 pages.
I love McNeil's Finder series (UCPL has volumes one and two of the Finder Library, the collected works) so far. Jager, the "sin-eater" of the Ascian clans, and "Finder" by trade, is virtually indestructible, and lives his life between the urban modern clans and the rapidly disappearing nomadic life of his mother's Ascian people. The artwork is complicated and imaginative and tells its own story, but it is not always the same story that the text is telling. Ideas and sub-plots are often addressed in the illustrations long before they are explained textually, leaving the reader somewhat disoriented, like a visitor to a strange land. Vary, a beautiful anthropology student and prostitute, is introduced in this second collection, and her stories are as interesting as Jager's. Often described as "Aboriginal Science Fiction" (see XKCD #978 Citogenesis) McNeil creates a vivid and unique world.
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