Well, nerd friends, you survived the winter and made it to spring! (At least, if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere.) Got any plans yet? Maybe you’ve got a big spring break holiday bash coming up, or maybe you just want to scroll down and find some new comics to read during the warm days ahead. Either way, totally fair!
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Bookish Goods
I Have Issues T-Shirt by IceCreamTees
Tell the world about your issues with this punny T-shirt! Comes in multiple sizes and over a dozen colors. (Basic black-and-white works for me, though!) $22+
New Releases
Yakuza Lover Volume Twelve by Nozomi Mino
In this series finale, the love affair between Yuri, a college student, and Oya, a yakuza boss, faces one last hurdle: Oya’s mother, who insists that her son marry someone more suited to his station. Can love truly conquer all for this mismatched pair, or is it impossible for them to carve out a place for themselves?
Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family by Jordan Mechner
Mechner, a video game designer in a crumbling marriage, considers moving to another country. Nearly 80 years before, his father fled the Nazis as a child. And 24 years before that, Mechner’s grandfather joined the army and fought in World War I. Each generation, forced to move for different reasons, is bound by the universal desire for a better life.
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Riot Recommendations
Today’s Riot Rec theme is: plants! Much like WALL-E, these comics are obsessed with plants.
LaGuardia by Nnedi Okorafor and Tana Ford with James Devlin
Future’s life was already changing — she is expecting a child — when she makes yet another monumental decision: to smuggle an alien plant into the United States. As she and the plant, named Letme Live, fight for a better world for all, they will have to learn to trust each other with their deepest secrets.
Taproot by Keezy Young
Hamal’s garden is a place of solace for both him and Blue, a lonely ghost. Their romance is a high point of Blue’s afterlife, but he can never forget that he is still dead…or that Hamal’s ability to talk to ghosts might come at a price too high for Blue to accept. Will Blue have to leave the garden and the man that he loves to save them both?
Let’s head into the rest of the week with a spring in our step!
~Eileen