The past decade has produced a lot of great comics, but few can compete with the unique power of Monstress. The epic fantasy-horror saga from Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda has fused disparate influences — the animal spirits of Hayao Miyazaki films, the cosmic monsters of H.P. Lovecraft stories, the inventive technology of steampunk — into a moving story about mothers and daughters, war and peace, and how divisions can be bridged.