Secret Identity — Alex Segura
Comics fans know him for his work at Archie as well as with Marvel and DC; noir fans know him from his Pete Fernandez Miami Mystery series. (Star Wars fans may also recognize his name, to boot.) But Alex Segura scored maybe his greatest-to-date literary triumph this year with Secret Identity, a fast-paced, incredibly entertaining 1970-set tale about a struggling writer who creates the next great superhero character—then gets pulled into a murder mystery that digs into the seedy underbelly of the comic-book world, with comic panels cleverly integrated into the storytelling. – Cheryl Eddy
