![]() ![]() ![]() The first half is a slow simmer introducing the cast, their personalities and a mystery surrounding Cortland’s past. Girlfriends feature, Amilah significantly from halfway, but the opening pages make it clear Breaks is building toward Ian and Cortland’s relationship. He likes the spiky Cortland Hunt who transferred to his school three years previously, the only person not intimidated by school thug Kyle Spencer. He downplays it, but he’s a promising runner, and at seventeen still coming to terms with who he is. Better still, it’s an honest to goodness romantic drama, another genre very rare in comics these days.Įmma Vieceli and Malin Rydén collaborate on the writing, selecting Ian Tanner as the narrative voice. Breaks doesn’t exactly stand alone, but despite being in a sparsely populated field, it’s a work of perception and depth. While young adult graphic novels have been a massive growth area since 2015, there’s been very little representation for the corresponding growth of LBGT themed young adult novels. ![]()
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