WEIGHT TP itemid_471785 Bryan Talbot

Bryan Talbot

The year is 2035 and American society is crumbling

But what happens when their new home doesn\'t want them there and it fights back

But now - years later - a fully grown adult Oliver walks back into town

WEIGHT TP itemid_471785 Bryan TalbotIn The Weight, Melissa Mendes' pastoral cartooning captures the openness of rural America soft breezes, tall grass, whirring grasshoppers, rainstorms, skinned knees. But all the while, the cruelty, the disappointment of man lurks behind the barn and in the trailer. Life can be stubbed out as easily as a cigarette tossed in the dirt. One moment all focus, next, gone without a thought. Will Edie find herself repeating a cycle or will she be free like