My Cultural Diet

Friday Fitzhugh’s teenage years were spent solving crimes and uncovering the secrets of Kings Hill with her best friend, Lancelot Jones, aka, the world’s smartest boy. But when she returns home from college for Christmas break, their once-unbreakable friendship is now strained and difficult. That soon becomes the least of her worries, though, when supernatural forces begin moving against their strange little town. Will Friday be able to solve the mystery of the White Lady, save Kings Hill, and repair her friendship with Lancelot? Writer Ed Brubaker is arguably best known for his various hard-boiled titles with Sean Phillips (e.g., Reckless, Pulp, The Fade Out). But Friday finds him riffing on middle-grade titles like Encyclopedia Brown and Harriet the Spy with the help of Marcos Martin and Muntsa Vicente, and it’s delightful. The trio have created a fascinating and detailed world filled with mystery and nostalgia, not to mention coming-of-age melodrama, Lovecraftian monsters, arcane artifacts, secret societies, and a pair of immensely likable protagonists. Indeed, there might almost be too much going on in Friday, such that I’m not quite sure it all holds together in its final issues. Even so, Friday is filled with so much heart that it’s a joy to read (and re-read).

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