Finder

    (Lightspeed, 1996-2005)
™ and ©1998 Carla Speed McNeil

No one who reads Carla Speed McNeil’s Finder series would dispute that she’s probably one of the most unknown and underrated creative geniuses currently working in comics. From her fertile mind comes a world filled with both scientific and social concepts that have continuously made her series one of the industry’s freshest. Years into her series, when it seems there’s nothing left to unearth, each new arc explores amazing new ideas.

These ideas include a world in which kidnapping the children of society’s upper caste is commonplace and treated with all the urgency of jaywalking by both the police and the families. A world where women who bear twins are ostracized. A world whose politics make it next to impossible for a crime to be honestly investigated. In this arc, a kidnapping goes horribly awry, and series regular and tracker supreme Jaeger enlists himself in the investigation, despite the official investigator’s protest.

It’s a story that’s a little bit more accessible to new readers than some of McNeil’s previous ones, meaning that an already awesome series just got a little better. It’s definitely among the best.

— Jim Johnson
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#1

November, 1996
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#2

January, 1997
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#3

March, 1997
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#4

May, 1997
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#5

July, 1997
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#6

September, 1997
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#7

November, 1997
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#8

June, 2005
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#9

March, 1998
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#10

July, 1998
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#11

July, 1998
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#12

July, 1998
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#13

December, 1998
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#14

March, 1999
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#15

December, 1999
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#17

May, 2000
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#18


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#19

September, 1999
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#20

September, 1999
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#22

May, 2001
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#23

July, 2001
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#24

November, 2001
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#25

January, 2002
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#26

March, 2002
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#27

July, 2002
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#28

September, 2002
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#29

November, 2002
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#30

January, 2003
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#31

April, 2003
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#32

June, 2003
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#33

October, 2003
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#34

March, 2004
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#35

September, 2004
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#36

March, 2005
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#37

June, 2005
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#38

September, 2005
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Ashcan #1


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Book #7

June, 2005
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Deluxe Set #2

September, 2011
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