Now there is competition for my heart. Before, Ramona Flowers was the queen of all graphic novel heroines as far as my heart was concerned. Nobody came close to Ramona. Not the ass-kicking used-to-be fairy tale princesses in “Fables.” Not the real-life women who pepper so many of the graphic memoirs I love (think Alison Bechdel, Marjane Satrapi, Ariel Schrag). Nope, my heart belonged firmly to Ramona.

But then Skank Zero Hopeless-Savage kicked down the door to my heart and I fell madly in love with the made-up word using, punk band fronting, youngest member of the Hopeless-Savage family. I’m pretty enamored with the whole damn family, but that Zero is a charmer.

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