Susan La Muse is no ordinary superhero.

In fact, she had plans to keep her nearly omnipotent powers a secret until a rash act in London stopped a suicide bomber in his tracks. Her celebrity status was assured by the video blogger who captured the incident on film.

Now with her seemingly powerless sister, Libby, acting as her agent, Susan sets out to save the world -- and not just in the Superman/Batman vein of stopping the bad guy, either. Susan irrigates Africa, neutralizes the world's nuclear warheads, ends the global dependence on oil and more. She isn't even above fiddling with the way people think.

The world loves her. With her supermodel good looks and her benign liberal activism, she's got unstoppable star power. Of course, she has enemies, too -- from extremist religious groups to Wall Street boardrooms to clandestine government agencies, there are plenty of people who don't want Susan meddling with the status quo.

Of course, with powers like hers, she's not very easy to kill. That won't stop them from trying.

La Muse is a new kind of graphic novel. Lacking the usual superhero/supervillain fisticuffs, this self-contained tale ponders the moral questions surrounding a being with god-like powers in an otherwise mundane world. It's a thrilling concept, presented here without the usual, often worn-out tropes of the genre. Bravo!