And we do have Bun’s Comfort Food Corner by Chu Nap as a nice little comedown as well.īut as good as this ShortBox is, there’s still that realization that this is the last one. It isn’t the only comic to get me choked up in a ShortBox. While the knight is a kind omen, Olivia and Sierra soon create a friendship between them that lasts for years. A particular highlight in this box was Xulia Vicente’s I See a Knight and its story of Olivia and the headless knight, Sierra, she sees following her. There is, as always, something in here for every kind of comic reader. The variety of comics within ranges from silent fantasies to recipe comics to deeply personal ruminations on our connections to the people around us. This most recent box, the thirteenth so far, is easily one of the strongest. Over the past few years, Zainab Akhtar has provided the world with a box of comics, candy, and wonderfully illustrated prints from a wide-range of creators-all of whom are putting their best efforts forward through every volume they create. Once again, we return to ShortBox-one of the best curators of the comics medium. Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #150 by Drew Barth
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