The cold hard facts of life

The Wilted Rose Once, a shy young man named Haru fell deeply in love with a kind-hearted woman named Aoi. Every day he watched her from afar, too nervous to speak. Finally, he worked up the courage to offer her a single rose — dark, almost black, because he thought it looked unique and beautiful,…

This is a wholesome (and slightly savage) comic series by the Thai artist Tum Ulit that tells the love story of three childhood friends through a brilliant metaphor: they’re all trapped inside a giant brick tower (like Rapunzel, but with three people). The entire story is told through “camera shots” from inside and outside the…