5 Reasons Why You Should Be Reading “CopperHead”

**As Spoiler Free as I could make it!***

1.) It’s a comic from the devastatingly great Image Comics Lineup. You will NOT lose messing around with Image Comics. It’s a win win for everyone involved: we read great comics and the fine folks making all our faves retain creator owned properties, as in they make and publish their material without losing their characters by giving up the copyrights to them. At this point in the game I would not DARE call Image the underdog in the comics fight–they are one of the largest comic book publishers in North America.

  2.) Not your average main character here, which I deem is fine. Come out of the box where every hero/ main character of the story is a in-the-prime-of-his-life, straight, white guy who may or may not have stumble on his face. Who IS our protagonist here? Who is on the first cover straight stunting in uniform with a scowl on her face? Sheriff Clara Bronson. Female Sheriff to a new town on a new planet  who also happens to be a single mom. Boom. This is actually something I’ve seen in several of many titles–female protagonists (Shel from Low, Hazel from Saga, Destiny from Genius), significant numbers of women as major and minor characters (all the many women we have yet to learn about from Bitch Planet–although this also doubles in the first category) or teams of female characters painting the town red (The Rat Queens, the mother freaking Rat Queens). Plus also served up in some of these titles and some others, are wo…