What’s the Furthest Place from Here? Vol. 2: Safe as Houses
Tyler Boss & Matthew Rosenberg, storytellers; Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, lettering
Image Comics, 2023
At the end of the first collection the family called the Academy was disbanded and its members dispersed to other families. So, this installment follows their movements, beginning with Sid's travels (she is still pregnant, BTW). She wins a dog in an auction using the map of the known world that Slug had brought back in the previous volume. She and Oberon both wind up in the woods (with a family that wears animal masks), reuniting after she has given birth. She winds up with the Bold Ones (the kids who dress up as elders), who worship a videotape of the movie Cocoon as a god. Meanwhile, the Keepers have imprisoned Alabama and Lafayette, and the final chapters show them trying to escape. Alabama makes it out (possibly), and a broken Lafayette vows to save her. There is little real movement in this installment–in fact it is no longer clear what the main narrative is anymore–but the story is still full of small surprises and surreal details. The collection concludes with several variant covers.
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