Summary

Comic 13 – In this single-page layout colored mostly in dark tones, a tearful young man (possibly Latinx) watching coverage of the shootings receives a supportive phone call from his parents, his mother telling him to be careful, his father telling him to go out to a gay bar and be brave. In the final panel, the young man clutches his phone to his chest. There is a caption: “based on a real conversation” (Comic 13).

Comic 14 – In this single-page layout in darker tones in the first two thirds of the page, a young woman in a family home watches coverage of the shooting and confronts her seemingly homophobic father about the possibility that she might be gay. She then confesses that she is, and runs upstairs, her father watching on television statements of defiance and support. In the latter third of the page, in coloring that...