Art by Riley Rossmo
The 'Julia' arc wraps up in this issue, and it's probably the best single issue of Proof to come out this year. I was surprised last month that there would be another issue to this storyline - it seemed like things were being padded a little, but then this month, the creators provide a conclusion to their story that is pitch perfect in its depiction of the different characters' emotional states, both in the past and in the present.
The nicest part of the book is in the shift in who Proof is narrating his story to. I hadn't seen that coming, but I felt that it was a very fitting way to end things. Also, this issue captured better than any other in the series the conflict between Proof's all too human emotions and his non-human provenance. In many ways, he's more human than the average person, and that comes across in this issue.
This book ends off with a text piece on the real-life story of Julia Pastrana, which is not all that different from what is portrayed in this comic. I hadn't realized that she had been a real person, and the well-researched and explained article about her makes me want to start back at the beginning of the arc, and read it all through again.
Sometimes I question where this book is going, but issues like this one make certain that I'm going to stick around as a loyal reader each month.
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