by Kevin Wolf I don’t normally begin a review with a recommendation, but I will this time, because I highly recommend Cannon by Lee Lai, for its amazingly real dialogue as the pressure builds on the protagonist until having their—I don’t actually know “their” or “her” pronoun—cathartic psychotic break. Dialogue is the author’s strength and leaves the reader to figure out what goes unsaid. Out-of-control situations (e.g. horror movies, the cover) are illustrated with a red wash in an otherwise black and white fictional graphic novel. Even before the book’s opening credits, we see the start of that psychotic break,… Read More