Tropic of the Sea Dmitry Samarov Becky moves in with her

Becky moves in with her pot-smoking grandfather

is hopping mad and has only one obsession: to send her packing

Madison Clell

Martha’s sister

5″ x 7″

Tropic of the Sea Dmitry Samarov Becky moves in with herBy Satoshi Kon. Published by Vertical. Softcover, 236 pages, B&W, 2013 (originally published in Japanese in 2011) Yosukes family has a strange tradition once every sixty years they receive an egg from a mermaid. When the egg matures his family dutifully returns it to the sea, where the whole process is then repeated. In exchange for this favor, the mer people bless his coastal town with bountiful catches of fish and calm seas. But as a commercial