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Chrysanthemum Under the Waves was reviewed again this week! This time it was covered by Ryan C. of Ryan C.'s Four Color Apocalypse! Yesterday I cried, today I wept - I didn't think my book would earn such praise:

[S]omewhere around the 1/3-of-the-way-through mark of these near-300 pages I came to the realization that I wasn't just experiencing a "good" comic, or even a "great" one. I got the distinct impression (confirmed beyond the shadow of a doubt by the time I reached the "title" story, "Chrysanthemum"), that this thing is a bona fide goddamn masterpiece. A groundbreaking and sometimes heartbreaking charting of emotional extremity delivered with near-unparalleled confidence and, dare I say it, grace --- except, of course, when it's intentionally NOT graceful. Umber is charting new territory for the EXPRESSIVE possibilities of not only her own work, but for the medium of comics as a whole.

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🖤 Maggie