Loving, Ohio
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Publisher Description
“We all lived here. In some way. And wherever you live it leaves imprints on you”
After the mysterious suicide of their friend, Sloane, Elliott, Cameron, and Ana are just trying to get through the rest of high school. They live in Loving, Ohio—a town built around The Chorus, a new age cult with members firmly planted in positions of power and influence throughout the community.
Through their grief a series of murders throw these friends into a mystery connected to everything around them. Sloane and her friends have to escape a roaming murderer, figure out their place in the world, and deal with loss all in the looming shadow of The Chorus. But through it they will find the true cost of friendship and the adulthood they seek.
Gut punching emotion drives the mystery of Loving, Ohio. This beautifully drawn coming of age graphic novel will stay on the mind for days after reading. An expertly crafted tale about what happens when something infects every institution and structure within a community.
One of New York Public Library's Best New Comics of 2024 for Adults!
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This understated horror comic by Erman (Mariko Between Worlds) and artist Beck (Verse) finds terror in teenage suburban ennui. Sloane and her friends are high schoolers in what appears to be a typical Midwestern town. It gradually becomes clear, however, that the town of Loving is run by the Chorus, a new-agey cult whose beliefs range from past-life regression to the dangers of fluoride. The kids regard their parents' fanaticism with adolescent skepticism: "All religions are cults. Ours is just a little dumber than the rest," Sloane says. But after her boyfriend dies by suicide, she digs deeper. The Chorus, she finds, may be behind the disappearances of local teens—and the arrival of a twisty-limbed supernatural figure called "the man in the afternoon." The trope of surrealistic nightmares lurking under the surface of a small town brings to mind the work of Charles Burns, but Beck verges from that template with crisp art, tinted in muted palettes, that emphasizes the mundane side of Loving, into which monstrosity unpredictably erupts. The story avoids tidy answers to its mysteries, allowing fear to lurk in unresolved questions. Fans of cerebral horror should take note.
