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Jon and Suzie are continuing to investigate the other people who share their special abilities, but they actually end up taking a backseat to some more recent character additions in issue #13. The leading couple actually only appear on one page (where they’re joined by the book’s creative team of Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky in an odd cameo) and instead, a new character is focused on entirely: Alix. Alix’s backstory makes up the vast majority of this issue, though there’s the return of one of the more, uh, eccentric side characters at the end, as well.

What’s important about this issue is that Alix is asexual, and while the other characters with the ability to stop time have activated that power with, well, sex-related activities. Alix instead activates it with base-jumping. Having asexuality represented in a comic book that otherwise features a whole lot of hormonally-charged adults is pretty important, and it’s nice to see these guys give the subject the treatment it deserves.

Sex Criminals #13 is a great, if very different, issue of this award-winning series. We would still recommend new readers start at the beginning and work their way here – and though it shouldn’t need to be said, this is for mature readers only.

-Carrie Wood