The first issue in Lavie Tidhar‘s first comic series, ADLER, is out now! Published by Titan Comics, the issue is available with four variant covers (see below). Here’s the synopsis…

For Sherlock, there was only ever one woman – now Irene Adler is on a mission to take down Moriarty! It’s the League of Extraordinary Gentlewomen, as Adler teams up with a host of famous female faces from science, history and literature to defeat the greatest criminal mastermind of all time!

Series artwork by Paul McCaffrey, who also did one of the variant covers. The ‘A’ cover (at the top) is by Butch Guice.

Here’s a sample from the interior artwork, to further whet your appetite…

Lavie is also the highly-acclaimed author of many award-winning and -nominated novels and novellas, including most recently UNHOLY LAND, CENTRAL STATION and THE VIOLENT CENTURY (Tachyon Publications). He is also the author of CANDY, his first book for younger readers (Scholastic).

Lavie’s next novel is BY FORCE ALONE, due to be published by Head of Zeus (UK, March) and Tor Books (North America, June) — we shared the UK and US covers for this novel last week, but because we love them so much here they are again…

If you happen to be in London tomorrow, Lavie will be at Forbidden Planet signing copies of ADLER #1, as well as advance copies of BY FORCE ALONE!