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JAPAN.

128 MILLION PEOPLE PLUS ME.

IT FEELS LIKE |M GOING HOME EVEN THOUGH |VE NEVER BEEN THERE BEFORE.

AS WE START OUR DECENT TOWARDS NARITA AIRPORT, | CAN FEEL MY HEARTBEAT

GETTING FASTER.

ANTICIPATION, EXCITEMENT

AND A BIT OF FEAR.

MOM WAS A NAIVE JAPANESE SEAMSTRESS TRAVELLING

ABROAD.

DAD WAS A SWEET-TALKING IRISH ENGINEER.

|M THE HALF N HALF RESULT OF THEIR FLAWED TIME TOGETHER.

| GREW UP HEAVILY IMMERSED IN BOTH

CULTURES

WHEN THEY SPLIT UP MOM WANTED ME TO FINISH

SCHOOL IN IRELAND, TRYING TO KEEP MY TEENAGE LIFE AS STABLE AS POSSIBLE.

DAD AND | DIDNT SEE EYE TO EYE. HE COULDNT HANDLE

HAVING A TEENAGER AROUND

| COULDNT HANDLE BEING THAT TEENAGER.

YEAH THAT DIDNT WORK OUT.

A LIFE OF RICE AN POTATOES AS DAD WOULD SAY.

LEAVING IRELAND WASN'T AS DIFFICULT AS | THOUGHT IT

WOULD BE.

ITS A BIT DEPRESSING WHEN YOU REALIZE

EVERYTHING YOU OWN CAN FIT IN TWO BAGS.

MOM WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AT THE AIRPORT, BUT MY FLIGHT WAS DELAYED SO SHE HAD TO GO TO WORK.

IT SOUNDS LIKE SHES GOT CRAZY HOURS JUST TO MAKE ENDS MEET.

BUS TO THE PLANE.

PLANE TO THE TRAIN.

TRAIN TO THE SUBWAY.

EACH ROUTE HAS ITS OWN PATTERN.

| JUST HAVE TO CONNECT THE DOTS.

NO PROBLEM.

|M GOOD AT THAT. Oh, wow

NEXT STOP: IKEBUKURO.

MY NAMES RORI LANE

AND THIS RIGHT HERE IS MY BRAND

NEW LIFE.

Story: Jim ZubArt: Steve Cummings

Colors: John Rauch & Jim Zub Letters: Marshall Dillon

MY NAMES RORI LANE

AND THIS RIGHT HERE IS MY BRAND

NEW LIFE.

Story: Jim ZubArt: Steve Cummings

Colors: John Rauch & Jim Zub Letters: Marshall Dillon

THE JET LAG SEEMS TO BE HITTING ME HARD.

THAT WAS REALLY

STRANGE.

OKAY, | THINK

THIS IS IT.

*TRANSLATED FROM JAPANESE.

Weird

*

uh

| KNOW YOURE WORKING A LOT. HOWS THAT

GOING?

HEY, LITTLERED!

SO GOOD TO SEE YOU.

HEY, MOM!

THIS IS YOUR PLACE?

SO, uh

LIVING ROOM, KITCHEN,

AND BEDROOM ALL IN ONE SPACE. THIS IS URBAN LIVING IN TOKYO, MY

DEAR.

OUR PLACE NOW.

NONE OF THIS IS WHAT | EXPECTED.

| DONT KNOW IF THATS GOOD OR BAD, ITS JUSTDIFFERENT.

||M SORRY, MY

LOVE.

| | DONT WANT TO TALK ABOUT

IT, OKAY?! HES GONE.

|M HERE. LETS LEAVE IT AT

THAT.

| GUESS ITS TIME TO GO EXPLORING!

HOO-LEE SHIT...

...|M IN JAPAN.

| WONDER IF MY BRAIN WILL STOP WHIRLING LONG ENOUGH TO TAKE A NAP?

NOPE!

TWISTED STREETS AND STACKS OF BUILDINGS

THE WHOLE CITY FEELS CRAMMED TOGETHER, EVERYONE WEAVING AROUND EACH OTHER GOING ABOUT THEIR LIVES.

CANT BELIEVE HOW DENSE IT ALL IS. THIS IS THE

FIRST SPOT |'VE BEEN TO THAT ISN'T PACKED WITH PEOPLE.

THEYRE THEYRE ALL CONNECTED SOMEHOW.

|--

Wha--?

OKAY, THIS IS KINDA

CREEPY

Uh...

Uh...

THIS CANT BE REAL

|M ASLEEP ON THE FLOOR AT MOMS

APARTMENT

OR DREAM LOGIC...

JET LAG

AND THIS IS ALL JUST A MESSED UP NIGHTMARE

| MEAN MY APARTMENT

Uhhhh

WHAT CAN | DO?

|

|

GOTTA GET OUT

FIND A WAY TO--

Ahh!

ESCAPE

EACH ROUTE HAS ITS OWN PATTERN.

| JUST HAVE TO CONNECT THE DOTS.

HA

HAHAHA!

Uh

*snort*

AYANE?

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