Quince #15 Review

Writers: Sebastian Kadlecik, Kit Steinkellner / Artist: Emma Steinkellner / Translator: Valeria Tranier / FanBase Press The Quince creative team started this journey way back in January 2017 (I joined a little later around the third issue) and now this series has come to a close with its fifteenth and final issue. What can I say to prepare myself for this review? Quince has been one of my favorite comics of 2017. I don’t have to elaborate on what a trash year 2017 has been yet comics have been a refuge this year for me. Lupe’s adventures and trials have also served as not just escapism but a wonderful inspiration each and every issue I tuned in for. Last issue, which saw our girl lose the last of her superpowers by saving Abulela from death’s door and choosing to go after Garrett for whatever kind of last stand he had planned on top of the town’s clock tower. Things took a dark turn when Garrett looked down from up high and monologued on how maybe he’s ready to end it all, end himself and/or Lupe included. Oh! Yikes! This is where things get serious. Lupe is without her superpowers and is falling to her death, fam

You know what happens next? Was I surprised!? Y-E-S! An unlikely save by an unlikely ally by way of the troubled Garrett who was once Q’s arch-nemesis threw me for a loop and directed the writing of the story to a transition time for Lupe: after the superpowers. There is also really great commentary on mental health as Lupe begets the question “What if you’re no…