Edie Fake is one of the USC7–the MFA class that collectively dropped out of USC’s Roski School of Art and Design after the school went back on its financial offers and dismissed respected faculty. He is also known as a co-founder of CAKE (Chicago Alternative Comics Expo), a blogger for Book By Its Cover, and for his award-winning queer comic series, Gaylord Phoenix.
In issue 7 of the series, Fake returns with a story about a storm. The two lead characters awake to see that said storm has grown, requiring them to hide. They try moving underground and sneaking behind a balcony, before deciding to “move through each other,” morphing into one body. Left intentionally vague–both the storm and the characters’ transformation–and accompanied by poetic lines such as “I know us best when our borders fly open,” this issue comments on the strength in collectives and the need for change.