After a long (much longer than we would have liked, here at Copacetic) hiatus, R. Kikuo Johnson returns to the comics fold with this graphic novel that presents a highly empathic, pitch perfect portrait of a family going through a stressful moment of transition.  This portrait serves both to reveal the development of each family member's respective character – along with the way in which each of their characters grew out of their relationships to each other – and how the transition then shapes them in new ways.  The entire work is rendered with a mood capturing exactitude very much (and quite successfully) in the mode of The Master (aka Jaime Hernandez) and is a real pleasure to read. 

Need a little more convincing?  There's a mini-interview with R. Kikuo Johnson along with a nice preview in The New Yorker, HERE.