Felt Like a Kiss
Barda
By Ngozi Ukazu
Ngozi Ukazu’s 2024 Barda is a stand-alone superhero graphic novel, set in Jack Kirby’s Fourth World. Although perhaps superhero isn’t the correct term.
Apokolips is Darkseid’s domain, a grim planet entirely devoted to tyranny and cruelty. To live on Apokalips is to serve Darkseid, either as a minion or as an example of the consequences of disappointing Darkseid.
Barda leads the Female Furies, an elite band of warriors trained by the saccharine-sweet sadist Granny Goodness. Barda has a dark secret: on a planet where love is not merely unknown but forbidden, she has fallen for someone. Who?
Why, none other than Orion of New Genesis!
Spoilers for the last fifty years of New Gods continuity.