The newest addition to the Black Hammer comics universe is The Quantum Age, where writer Jeff Lemire and artist Wilfredo Torres (Moon Knight, Black Panther) are going to take us a thousand years into the future of the Black Hammer crew to look at a group of teenagers rebelling against their autocratic government.

The Quantum Agefollows a young Martian teen as he tries to reform The Quantum League to get back in the game. Joining Torres and Lemire on the book are legendary colorist and notorious Eisner hog Dave Stewart; Nate Piekos, the letterer on Doctor Star and the Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows. Christian Ward (Ody-C; Ultimates 2) will provide one of the series’ variant covers.

The Black Hammer universe kicked off with Lemire and Ormston’s Black Hammer, and it was a delight. When Lemire is on, he’s untouchable, and he was definitely on from page one of issue one of one of our best comics of 2016. And Ormston has been stunning, capturing the odd loneliness of the Black Hammer Farm crew in a way that perfectly fit Lemire’s scripts.

Then we got Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil, a deep dive into the villains of the Black Hammer universe from Lemire and the always excellent David Rubin.