Comics Will Break Your Heart
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David Warrick stopped an arm’s length from his son. Weldon waited, his hand laced through Mir’s. Weldon’s father glanced at Mir, his gaze tired.
“So I guess you’re staying in Sandford,” he said.
“If that’s okay,” said Weldon. His father nodded, stuffing his hands into his pockets.
“If it’s what you want, son,” he said. “If it’s right for you.”
“It is,” said Weldon. “Maybe even for my last year of high school, if that’s possible.”
David Warrick smiled, almost wistfully.
“I always hoped you’d join me at Warrick Studios,” he said. “Maybe you will, someday.”
“Maybe.”
“I hated Sandford,” David Warrick said with a sigh. “But if that’s where you want to live, I guess I’ll be visiting it over the next year. We’ll have to see what your aunt and uncle say, though.”
“You should come to our house for dinner,” Mir said. “My parents have a vegetable garden, so there are always a million vegetables to eat. I’m sure they’d love to have you over.”
David Warrick looked at Mir, and the lines on his face softened a little.
“I’d like that,” he said.
“How did the trailer premiere go?” Mir asked.
Weldon’s father brightened.
“Really well,” he said. “It’s trending worldwide on Twitter. It may have been worth it, after all.”
Weldon’s father turned and walked away from them, toward the same group of suited men and women that Weldon had seen him with earlier. As he approached the group, David Warrick spread his arms wide and the suits turned toward him, smiling their unnerving, perfect smiles.
“You’re coming back,” Mir said.
Weldon turned to face her.
“Yes,” he said. “Well, hopefully. Like my dad says, gotta see if it’s okay with my aunt and uncle.”
Mir grinned.
“You are going to be so Canadian by this time next year, your dad won’t even recognize you.” And she stood on tiptoe, kissing him on the mouth. It was a little less sloppy than the first time, but still weird and still wonderful.
“YEAHHH COMIC-CON!” someone yelled from outside the booth.
Mir rolled her eyes.
“Is that going to happen every time we kiss?”
Weldon reached for her hand.
“C’mon,” he said. “Let’s go exploring.”
They walked together into the swirling mass of humanity.
Also by Faith Erin Hicks:
Brain Camp (with Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan)
Friends with Boys
Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong (with Prudence Shen)
The Nameless City trilogy:
The Nameless City
The Stone Heart
The Divided Earth
The Adventures of Superhero Girl
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Faith Erin Hicks is a writer and artist in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her graphic novels include Zombies Calling, The War at Ellsmere, Brain Camp (with Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan), Friends with Boys, Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong (with Prudence Shen), the Bigfoot Boy series (with J. Torres), The Last of Us: American Dreams (with Neil Druckmann), the Eisner Award-winning The Adventures of Superhero Girl, and the Nameless City series. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Also by Faith Erin Hicks
About the Author
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 by Faith Erin Hicks
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eISBN 9781626723658
First hardcover edition, 2019
eBook edition, February 2019