Soil #5

Atsushi Kaneko's unsettling suburban drama continues in this fifth volume from Panini Comics, its spare monochrome cover presenting a quietly unnerving snapshot of everyday life — a young girl in the foreground wearing a calm, almost knowing smile, while a seated man and a standing woman converse in a parklike setting behind her. The contrast between the mundane scene and its subtly off-kilter atmosphere perfectly captures Soil's reputation for finding the strange lurking beneath ordinary neighborhoods.