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Breaks is out!
🕑 Added 2024-02-06 11:22:38 +0000 UTCBefore Heartstopper, there was Breaks . . . the enemies-to-lovers queer comic book sensation. Cortland Hunt has made some dangerous mistakes. Now he’s waiting quietly for those mistakes to catch up with him. Ian Tanner coasts through life denying the spark of anger beneath his laid back exterior. When school politics and personal lives become a battleground, the pair find that what they share may just be their only safe haven. Breaks is the story of two young men discovering who they were, who they are, and who they will become.
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It's been a busy weekend so I am a few days late, but finally we have a new, shiny and updated edition of Breaks! This is a first of a three volume series from Orbit, the other two volume will hopefully be out later this year if everything goes according to plan.
So, if you're interested in picking up a romantic drama, comedy, crime, school, angst story about two young men incapable of simply talking things out (sounds familiar?), go and pick it up now at your local book/comic store! You won't have to wait forever to reach the conclusion of this one.
For those who like me are far away from stores, I am including a link to the evil store, if you can get it elsewhere, please do so, but I know that life is sadly the way it is at times.
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Some reviews of the old (and long out of print) edition:
Another really great thing about Breaks is the mysteries they leave you with. They dangle bits of Cort and Ian’s backstories through flashbacks and ominous lines, but they don’t explain it. They leave you wondering “What happened there?” or “Is this one-liner relevant backstory or teen drama?”. Sometimes a comic will tell you everything about a character before you even open the cover, but Breaks keeps its secrets, which makes me very excited to read Vol. 2
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It's going to grow very dark indeed.
"So where is the love?!" I hear you cry.
It's in every line: both those written by Malin Ryden and those drawn by Emma Vieceli.
There is ever so much mischief and tenderness evidenced by and in both. There is a vulnerability to the art and an uncertainty in the dialogue whose speakers (in Ian and occasionally Cortland) seek to cover their tentative tracks. You cannot commit whilst in the closet, especially when you do not yet realise its confines or even acknowledge its existence. Trails of thought are left understandably unfinished and so much is left only half-said, often excruciatingly curtailed from without by what happens next.
Comments
Coldskingamer
Excited to read it! Though I may have to use the evil store because I live in a rural area.
