![]() She’s enlisted by a collector to fulfill a drop-off mission in the altered city. She sells the pictures to support her sister, Lexa, who was caught in ground zero when whatever everything went down. Serialized as a web series and released as a book in May 2017, Spill Zone revolves around Addison Merrick, a photographer who breaks into a city warped into a mad world. ![]() ![]() Spill Zone is a really creative take on the “nuclear fallout” idea. The best comic I read this week, First Second Books’ Spill Zone written by Scott Westerfeld and artist Alex Puvilland with colors by Hilary Sycamore, falls into this category. Artists doing their own thing need more recognition in the comics industry. They support great authors and artists like Emily Carroll and Raina Telgemeier. ![]() Companies like Scholastic and Simon & Shuster are helping young people get into comics. Stories created as a whole book and released as one are sometimes referred to as “Original Graphic Novels.” It’s a great format and honestly much more accessible than single issues or collections. Too often when I talk about comics I am talking about American single issues or collections of those as opposed to webcomics or graphic novels. “Best” is subjective to be sure, but this is why I love what I’m reading. It doesn’t have to be in any particular format. It doesn’t have to have actually come out this week. Welcome to Best Comic I Read, a column where I talk about the best comic I’ve read each week. ![]()
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