by Fábio Moon and Gabriel BáI really love this series. This issue features Brás at the age of eleven, when his time was split between his home in Sao Paulo and week-ends and holidays spent at his mother's parents' ranch in the countryside.
As with previous issues, there is a high degree of magical realism in the way the story is told. The comic opens with Brás telling the story of his birth as he has been told it, how his mother sang his way out of the womb, and how his arrival in the world heralded the resumption of electricity in a city that had been blacked out. It is how he came to have the nickname 'Little Miracle', and how he came to have a special source of confidence and 'specialness'.
Brás time on the ranch is spent playing with cousins and just hanging out with a large extended family. Moon and Bá are able to evoke many memories and emotions of childhood, while adding another layer to Brás's life. What struck me in particular was the discovery that Brás and his father had a much easier relationship with each other when he was young; I wonder if we are going to see the point where that turned in a future issue.
As always, the art in this book is stunning. Bá and Moon have surpassed all their other work with this series.
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