ディスコミュニケーション [Discommunication] #1

Two socially awkward teens — a lanky boy and a bespectacled girl — stand back-to-back beneath a looming, otherworldly figure with an elephant-like head, surrounded by a vivid collage of mysterious and fantastical vignettes rendered in striking red and white. This new-edition (新装版) first volume of Ueshiba Riichi's Discommunication — subtitled "Meikai-hen I" (Underworld Arc I) — hints at a story where everyday adolescent disconnection brushes up against something far stranger and more surreal. It's a quietly compelling package from Kōdansha's Afternoon KC DX line that draws you in before you've even cracked the spine.