National Book Award winner Nate Powell goes on a long, strange indie punk music trip with all-new original graphic novel
At first glance, Diamond Mine seems to have emerged in 1979 as Arkansas’s first punk band. Instead, this quartet is revealed to be interdimensional travelers from 1994, guided—largely against their will—by the vocalist’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 the legend of their band does. That is, until Jody, Diamond Mine’s bassist, finds herself disrupting the sorcery, even at the cost of her own beloved work and legacy. Exploring the emotions, vibrancy, and drive of the punk scene, FALL THROUGH is a breathtaking, headlong race through one of music history’s most influential periods.
Nate Powell is a National Book Award–winning cartoonist who began self-publishing as an Arkansas teenager in 1992. His work includes Save It for Later; civil rights icon John Lewis’s Run: Book One, Come Again, Two Dead, and its follow-up Any Empire; and Swallow Me Whole. Powell was introduced to the hardcore punk community in 1991, played over 500 shows across North America and Europe in various bands, including underground legends Soophie Nun Squad and Universe, and managed the do-it-yourself label Harlan Records from 1994 to 2010.
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