Hornschemeier draws this with a realism that fits the story. So far so normal, so why would we want to read this? We’re not told who she’s talking to: “did you ask her out?” Not a romantic prospect then? The person on the phone turns out to be Michael, a college kindred spirit turned long-distance confidant. Smartly, we only hear her side of the call. Hornschemeier engagingly takes us on Amy’s journey, her thoughts seeming heavily narrated at first as she gripes about her mom, and the guy on the bus “looking right at my breasts”, but the captions are revealed as her talking on the phone. She’s sick of her boyfriend, but does she even have the will to end it? Amy is a few years out of college, her creative dreams fading, and wondering is this it? She works in a clothes store, but (as one guy backhanded-compliments) isn’t “too bent on fashion and great”.
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