But You Have Friends #[nn]

But You Have Friends by Emilia McKenzie opens with a quietly striking image: two young women in glasses sit facing each other on chairs inside a spare, isometric room, a speech bubble overhead delivering the title's pointed, familiar phrase. The soft purple palette and intimate setup suggest a comic attuned to the complicated emotional terrain of friendship and loneliness. McKenzie's clean, understated line work makes this 2023 IDW release feel like exactly the kind of personal, human-scale storytelling that graphic novels do best.