She Could Fly #1

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This week I took a punt on She Could Fly #1 and I'm delighted with my choice.

I hadn't heard anything about it before I found it scrolling through the comixology app to buy my books.

It sold itself to me because
a) Great cover design
b) Intriguing title. With short sentences I like to play the game where you emphasise each word in turn and see where it takes you.
She Could Fly - But other people (or I) can't
She Could Fly - But she can't any more? This suggests something ominous and foreboding.
She Could Fly - This suggests wonder. Flying!

c) Clear blurb in the comixology catalog which I'll cut to preserve spoilers for some
In Chicago, an unknown woman appears flying at speeds of 120 miles per hour and at heights reaching 2,000 feet. Then she suddenly dies in a fiery explosion mid-air. No one knows who she was, how she flew, or why. Luna, a disturbed 15-year-old girl becomes obsessed with learning everything about her while rumors and conspiracy theories roil. Will cracking the secrets of the Flying Woman's inner life lead to the liberation from her own troubled mind?
* Written by Christopher Cantwell, co-creator/showrunner of AMC's Halt and Catch Fire.
* Martin Morazzo has worked on Nighthawk, Elektra, and the recently released creator-owned Ice Cream Man.
* The latest from Karen Berger's Berger Books imprint!
* 32 pages of story.

Boom. Tells me the premise, tells me the characters, gives me a mystery, tells me the tone and tells me who is involved and what they've done that I'd like, which brings us to

d) By the guy who did Halt and Catch Fire. I've only seen season 1 (so no spoilers) but my brother and everybody else I speak to about it say that it's great. Cantwell has some excellent back matter that really explains where this book has come from. Read it. Also, Cantwell did an internship at Marvel Studios in 2001. Cool

P.S.A. Holy Shit. Don't confuse Chris Cantwell creator of Halt and Catch Fire with Chris Cantwell the Crying Nazi. Completely different guys.




The counsellor asks if she's excited to get her (driving) Licence this year, and we get her first intrusive thought

YOU WILL KILL SOMEONE (as she knocks over an old person using a zimmer frame)
THEY WILL TAKE YOU AWAY (as police kneel on her head and cuff her)
YOU WILL LOSE EVERYTHING (as she sit, muzzled and bound, behind bars)


Luna isn't a well teen. She has a lot of intrusive thoughts and OCD. You can read Cantwell's thoughts about it in the Hollywoord Reporter article I posted, or in the back matter. He's experienced some very bad OCD episodes in his life.

Comments

[lilacsigil]

This looks really interesting, thanks for posting it.