Metax Joey Comeau with lush and expressive art

with lush and expressive art to boot

The vignettes of her everyday life exude immense presence

Designed as a companion volume for the critically acclaimed It Never Happened Again

By Alison Bechdel

Recipes include broths like Shio

Metax Joey Comeau with lush and expressive artBy Antoine Cosse. Published by Fantagraphics. Hardcover, 300 Pages, B&W, 2022. A society, greedily dependent on a mysterious natural resource, meets a force indifferent to social or class status in this graphic novel. In the dystopian city state of Kronin, the chief engineer is in charge of all mining of Metax a precious material that has become indispensable to survival because of its extraordinary qualities. Meanwhile, a police officer investigates