Fall Through

Love and Rockets meets Russian Doll in this original, full-color graphic novel about an underground punk band caught in a loop of an eternally repeating tourfrom National Book Awardwinning cartoonist Nate Powell. At first glance, Diamond Mine seems to have emerged in 1979 as Arkansass first punk band. Instead, this quartet is revealed to be interdimensional travelers from 1994, guidedlargely against their willby vocalist Dianas powerful spell embedded into their song Fall Through. As Diamond Mine tours the country, each performance of the song triggers a fracturing of space-time perceptible only by the band members as theyre transported to alternate worlds in which theyve never existed, but their bands legend has. That is, until Jody, the bands bassist and the storys protagonist, finds herself disrupting Dianas sorcery, even at the cost of her own beloved work and legacy. While some band members perpetually seek the free space offered by the underground punk scene to escape from their mundane or traumatic lives, others work toward it as a means of expression, connection, and growtheven if that means eventually outgrowing Sisyphean patterns and inevitably outgrowing their beloved band-family altogether. Master cartoonist Nate Powell has crafted a graphic novel that serves as both a brilliant example of circular storytelling, reminiscent of Netflixs Russian Doll, and a love letter to the spirit of punk communities. Fall Through will stay with the reader long after theyve turned the last page, asking the impossible question: Would you burn down everything you love in order to save it all?