![]() ![]() As our protagonist describes her girlfriend to the creatures who inhabit the parallel dimension, she slowly loses her memory of her girlfriend’s face, then personality, then existence. The first story, Don’t Go Without Me, follows a woman who loses her girlfriend when they cross into another dimension together. ![]() This book is gorgeous and, as someone who has been thinking about writing a collection of loosely-connected short stories, a great example of how to take unrelated plots and characters and make them a cohesive work. ![]() Enter Rosemary Valero-O’Connell’s Don’t Go Without Me, a triptych of short comics, each a different story connected by themes of “memory, isolation, and connection.” A Summary of Don’t Go Without Me But every now and again I pick up a one-shot story that reminds me that sometimes less is more, that fewer words can be achingly beautiful and leave a hole in your heart wanting more. ![]() This is why I gravitate towards comics like Lumberjanes, which has so many volumes, or Wicked + Divine, which has a long and complex enough arc that getting to the end is a satisfying endeavor. When I like something, I want a lot of it. ![]()
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