Strange fruit #1

In the sweltering heat of a Southern town on the brink of floodwaters, a silent giant arrives—twice the size of any man, with strength that defies reason, and a presence that unsettles even the most hardened Klan members. When a white boy vanishes and the town’s terror escalates, the arrival of this mysterious figure, christened Johnson by a boy named Sonny, offers a quiet defiance in the face of violence. Written by a noted voice in the genre and illustrated with striking, grounded detail, this story blends haunting historical dread with the quiet power of an unseen protector.

In "null," Jo confronts the weight of history and injustice as a black engineer hiding in a senator’s office during a crisis, while flashbacks hint at a fractured past. When Johnson is dragged into a whites-only library and later imprisoned, the line between resistance and survival blurs under the pressure of a racist system. The story unfolds with quiet intensity, weaving personal trauma with the urgent stakes of a failing levee and a missing child.

In "null," Sonny’s desperate bid to escape the Klan’s grip leads him to a fateful encounter with a missing child, James, on the treacherous edge of a crumbling levee. As tensions boil over among the workers and the oppressive weight of the past presses in, hidden connections surface through unexpected means—revealing that even in the darkest moments, humanity persists.

In "null," Jo and Sonny find themselves caught in the chaos of a flooded town after the levee breaks, their lives intertwined in a moment of crisis. With a mysterious device from a crashed spaceship granting Jo superstrength, the two must push through danger and loss to hold back the flood—though the cost may be more than any of them expected.