Mokuyobi no Ice Cream — Friday Funnies

A brilliant use of the comic page as a physical entity here, courtesy of Uno Zinnia’s Mokuyobi no Ice Cream.

Mokuyobi no Ice Cream is an anthology of single chapter yuri infused stories. Chapter four, ‘Platform’ is told by a girl who calls herself a coward and a bystander, somebody nobody notices. At first it looks as if the girl we follow through the preceding pages is this narrator. She falls down on the subway platform and another girl holds out her hand to help her stand up. But thent he fallen girl gets closer and closer to the camera, we get the page above and then the glorious reveal:

What looked like a panel on a comic page is revealed to be a paper bag covering the actual narrator’s face. The sort of thing you really can only do in comics and which utterly depends on having that reveal hidden until you turn the page (or, in this case, click through).