Blue Period Graphic Novel Volume 10 writer-Erik Larsen Singing their pain away and

Singing their pain away and defying their doubts

Nate Powell quietly explores the dark corners of adolescence - not the clich d melodramatic outbursts of rebellion

villains take their revenge

nothing good at all

the long suppressed mistreatment of Indigenous children and families by the residential school system

Blue Period Graphic Novel Volume 10 writer-Erik Larsen Singing their pain away andYatora studies hard and gets good grades, and he parties hard, staying out late drinking and watching soccer with his friends. He checks all the boxes he needs to be the perfect high school student. But it all starts to feel empty, and he begins to wonder what part of his life expresses who he is or even if he has a unique voice at all. Then he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty