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Love and Rockets meets Russian Doll in this original, full-color graphic novel about an underground punk band caught in a loop of an eternally repeating tour—from National Book Award–winning cartoonist Nate Powell.  At first glance, Diamond Mine seems to have emerged in 1979 as Arkansas’s first punk band. Instead, this quartet is revealed to be interdimensional travelers from 1994, guided—largely against their will—by vocalist Diana’s powerful spell embedded into their song “Fall Through.”  As Diamond Mine tours the country, each performance of the song triggers a fracturing of space-time perceptible only by the band members as they’re transported to alternate worlds in which they’ve never existed, but their band’s legend has. That is, until Jody, the band’s bassist and the story’s protagonist, finds herself disrupting Diana’s sorcery, even at the cost of her own beloved work and legacy. While some band members perpetually seek the free space offered by the underground punk scene to escape from their mundane or traumatic lives, others work toward it as a means of expression, connection, and growth—even if that means eventually outgrowing Sisyphean patterns and inevitably outgrowing their beloved band-family altogether.  Master cartoonist Nate Powell has crafted a graphic novel that serves as both a brilliant example of circular storytelling, reminiscent of Netflix’s Russian Doll, and a love letter to the spirit of punk communities. Fall Through will stay with the reader long after they’ve turned the last page, asking the impossible question: Would you burn down everything you love in order to save it all?

"Devastating and gorgeous," the New York Times Book Review proclaims. “Perhaps it’s a ghost story, perhaps it’s a fantasy story, but it’s refreshingly oblique. The images are heightened and stylized, the better to pass along that frisson so essential to punk art—rock or otherwise.”Love and Rockets meets Russian Doll in this original, full-color graphic novel about an underground punk band caught in a loop of an eternally repeating tour—from National Book Award–winning cartoonist Nate Powell.Master cartoonist Nate Powell has crafted a graphic novel that serves as both a brilliant example of circular storytelling and a love letter to the spirit of punk communities. Fall Through will stay with the reader long after they’ve turned the last page, asking the impossible question: Would you burn down everything you love in order to save it all?At first glance, Diamond Mine seems to have emerged in 1979 as Arkansas’s first punk band. Instead, this quartet is revealed to be interdimensional travelers from 1994, guided—largely against their will—by vocalist Diana’s powerful spell embedded into their song “Fall Through.”As Diamond Mine tours the country, each performance of the song triggers a fracturing of space-time perceptible only by the band members as they’re transported to alternate worlds in which they’ve never existed, but their band’s legend has. That is, until Jody, the band’s bassist and the story’s protagonist, finds herself disrupting Diana’s sorcery, even at the cost of her own beloved work and legacy.While some band members perpetually seek the free space offered by the underground punk scene to escape from their mundane or traumatic lives, others work toward it as a means of expression, connection, and growth—even if that means eventually outgrowing Sisyphean patterns and inevitably outgrowing their beloved band-family altogether.

From the National Book Award–winning, bestselling author Nate Powell comes an intense time-tripping graphic novel capturing the transitional 1990s and the weird kids who fall through the cracks—perfect for fans of Everything Everywhere All At Once, Killing Eve, and Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With MeThe year is 1992. Diana Bogue is a personality too big for her small Arkansas town—a runaway who dyes her hair platinum, studies the occult, sings like an angel, and dominates the local punk scene through the force of her personality.Even when being in the “cult of Diana” is too much for them, her friends Jody, Steff, Napoleon, and Todd can’t help but be pulled into her vortex.But under the surface, Diana struggles to outrun damage from a repressive religious past. She only shares these struggles with her dearest long-distance pen pal—who she keeps hidden from her other friends.Until one day, he’s never heard from again.Untethered and fiercely protective of what she considers hers, Diana turns even more inward, blending music and homegrown sorcery in hopes of outrunning reality. But even she can't turn back time . . . or can she?

High in the Ozarks, a lover’s dream becomes a parent’s nightmare in this gripping graphic novel from Nate Powell, the National Book Award–winning artist of the March trilogyIn this fresh paperback edition featuring a new cover and updated back matter, #1 New York Times bestselling cartoonist Nate Powell presents a haunting tale of intimacy, guilt, and collective amnesia.This work serves as the origin point for his multiple Eisner Award–nominated shared fictional universe, also featured in Fall Through and Diana. Available together for the first time, these three books retroactively redefine the course of this Ozark fairy tale.As the sun sets on the 1970s, the spirit of the Love Generation still lingers in one “intentional community” nestled deep in the Ozark Mountains. And after years without personal space or secrets of her own, single mother Haluska feels like she’s losing her identity…When Haluska stumbles across a cave hidden away from the eyes of the commune, she and her best friend’s husband escape the impossible scrutiny by entangling themselves in an affair. When they're together, the whispers, rumors, and idealistic posturing that make up the fabric of their daily life melts away, and the two of them can be just themselves for a few stolen moments.But their convenient love nest hides a much deeper secret, and when their young sons Jacob and Shane stumble across their hiding place, they uncover something far more sinister than a forbidden tryst . . Haluska will need to confront both herself and the terrifying indifference of her own community to save the boys from a long-slumbering evil that has been calling to her from the beginning.