Love and Rockets meets Russian Doll in this all-new graphic novel
about an underground punk band caught in a loop of an eternally
repeating tour--from National Book Award-winning cartoonist Nate
Powell
At first glance, Diamond Mine seems to have emerged in 1979 as Arkansas'
first punk band. Instead, this quartet is revealed to be
interdimensional travelers from 1994, guided--largely against their
will--by vocalist Diana's 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
they're transported to alternate worlds in which they've never existed,
but their band's legend has. That is, until Jody, the band's bassist and
the story's protagonist, finds herself disrupting Diana's 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 growth--even 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
Netflix's Russian Doll, and a love letter to the spirit of punk
communities. Fall Through will stay with the reader long after they've
turned the last page, asking the impossible question: Would you burn
down everything you love in order to save it all?
