I love this series. I love watching shy Tsukimi stretch her wings, both as a designer and as a human being; I love watching the Amars fight to defend their home and community against gentrification in their own imperfect ways; I love watching Kuranosuke's ambitions grow even as he struggles to understand his own feelings. I'm here for every ridiculous twist and turn!

This series continues to be incredibly charming. This deep into it I don't want to give any more spoilers in my reviews, I'll just say this is the first manga series I'm on track to actually finish in like a decade. Go start at the beginning!

This is the second to last volume of the series, so I'm not going to try and summarize the plot at this point. I'll just say this series remains delightful and I recommend it!

Rex Jargon Junior (R.J. Jr. for short) lives in the small village of Egalliv where his love of puns and word play is sadly under appreciated. He clashes with the less academic kids, and struggles to find a job when his single mother can't pay the rent on their little cottage alone. Eventually he finds a place he fits in at the local bookstore, but just as things are starting to look up Egalliv is attacked by a fire-breathing dragon. R.J.'s father went missing after trying to tame the same beast ten years earlier, so naturally R.J. feels pulled to handle the dragon crisis this time around. His journey into the dangerous forest has more strange twists and turns than even his wild imagination could have predicted. I've been reading this webcomic a page a week since the beginning, and I finally got the beautiful, hardback, self-published first volume in the mail! What a gorgeous book this is! It's full color with end paper maps and a notes section explaining the inception and inspirations for the story. It's a perfect comic to gift to a budding reader; if you know a kid just slightly too young to read The Hobbit, hand them this book first.