Just finished reading Witchblade: Origins Volume 1, my first comic book ever. I asked the guy in the comic book stand at Dragon*Con to recommend me something that:
1. Has a strong plot (not stupid or silly)
2. Has interesting character development
3. Is visually cool
4. Has cool costumes
I would say this largely fits the bill. The plot is definitely intriguing and it is visually awesome. It remains to be seen whether the characters will develop in the next volume, although I will check them out and see. As far as costumes go, this girl wears next to nothing all the time, so there isn't much to speak of there. The Witchblade itself is pretty sweet though (pictured on the cover), so I could definitely do a costume with her wearing it with one of her many miniscule dresses.
At first it was hard for me to get used to reading all the different speech bubbles, and the intermittent (and seemingly arbitrary) bolding of words was annoying, but I got over that.
Would recommend.
To me, "the intermittent (and seemingly arbitrary) bolding of words" sounded fantastic! I loved that - but I was surprised that you didn't list "word bolding" as a label - which would be helpful for me to find more (comic) books like that! (I'm going to go check the bolding in Nausicaa, for comparison)
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