She Could Fly #2

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On this community, I'm the one-man street team for She Could Fly by former Marvel Studios intern Christopher Cantwell and Martin Morazzo. Halfway through reading #1 I could feel that it was a special book, and that feeling has only got stronger as I read more.

But don't just take my word for it...

AOK: There is no better medium to authentically portray the voice inside than literature. Sometimes we feel our inner monologue instead of hearing it. To convey it as prose allows for the reader to experience it on a level beyond a voiceover; sometimes to speak it is too concrete. To read it, as we read every other part of the story, allows us to be it. Christopher Cantwell has been it, hid it, exposed it. To tell this story well is to tell his story. You should be listening.

And nothing brings uncontrollable emotion across like watching others undergo it. Martin Morazzo’s cartoonish style is larger than life. I’ve compared his knack for capturing anxiety on par with Junji Ito, and She Could Fly allows him to depict disquiet with as much gravitas than any of his previous work to date. You should be watching.

Read She Could Fly because it is important, it is powerful, it takes ideas that are crucial to humanity—like fragility, like empathy—and does them right and true.
Doom Rocket.

Issue 2 - a summary


This greasy shit is a shitty physicist who was working on, but didn't succeed with, the technology that meant that She Could Fly. We find out later that the flying woman was able to do in months what he couldn't manage in years.
This is Luna. She is obsessed with the flying woman, and plagued by intrusive thoughts, like the idea of shooting her grandmother in the back of the head.



Luna continues to investigate the Flying Woman (now exploded) and manages to track down her old work place.





But then...


For me, She Could Fly is about dying and wanting to die, and finding the things that make you not want to die, and it tells that story with a huge amount of heart
And in issue #3

Comments

[q99]

This is interesting, and very much not what I expected from the title.

[stubbleupdate]

What did you expect?

[q99]

Based on the title, I thought the protagonist would be the flier ^^ And it'd be about someone learning to fly and what that brings or something like that.

Now obviously, that's *just* the title impression and one look at the cover here told me it's not gonna be that.