Zajaqan #1 Centers Black Immigrant In Time-Bending Fantasy Adventure

Writers: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing / Artists: Nathan Gooden, Vittorio Astone / Vault Comics You, like me, are enjoying the current run of Black Bolt by Ahmed and Ward. You like mysteries, fantastic settings, and mind bending visuals that leave you wondering where you are. Then Zojaqan is a great new comic for your reading list. Zojaqan (pronounced ZOH-jah-KHAN) is the latest new offering from Vault Comics, which has already produced the stellar Heathen and Alien Bounty Hunter, among other titles. Vault Comics specializes in Science Fiction and Fantasy comics, and this one new one fits squarely in that spot. Here’s the set up:

Shannon Kind is falling. She’s lost someone, everyone really, and she finds herself on a new planet, fighting for her life. We quickly learn a few things about Shannon — She’s a fighter, a runner, fierce but not superhuman. She’s a postal worker, a mother, the daughter of an African immigrant. And she’s landed somewhere where the rules of time and space are different. She experiences eons of evolution over night. The creatures she interacts with, huge, strange, wordless aliens, seem to evolve in response to her behavior, but is that true? Or just perception? The one that she hunts and kills one-on-one develops into a pack hunter to better kill her, triggering another fast-forward. Did she do cause that? Trigger it? Is she the butterfly that flaps and causes the hurricane?

What is clear is that she is always moving forward in time but the speed of …