What’s to Love: We were instantly taken with newcomer Phillip Kennedy Johnson’s inventive high-concept story and mature characterization. Throw in a crime thriller element and Matthew Dow Smith’s moody art and Last Sons of America can be the perfect answer to the question, “What if Elmore Leonard directed Children of Men?” What It Is:

Jackie and Julian have finally found a child they can send to America, but she’ll bring more trouble onto the brothers than they expected.

Jackie and Julian have finally found a child they can send to America, but she’ll bring more trouble onto the brothers than they expected.

Jackie and Julian have finally found a child they can send to America, but she’ll bring more trouble onto the brothers than they expected.