Seconds

The highly anticipated new standalone, full-color graphic novel by Bryan Lee O'Malley, the author and artist of the immensely successful Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series.

Katie is doing pretty well. She is a talented young chef, runs a successful restaurant, and has big plans to open an even better one. Then, all of a sudden, progress at the new location stalls, her charming ex-boyfriend shows up, her affair with another chef goes awry, and her best waitress gets seriously injured. And so, Katie's life goes from pretty good to not so good. What she needs is a second chance. After all, everyone deserves one – but they don’t come easily.

Luckily for Katie, a mysterious girl appears in the middle of the night with simple instructions for a do-it-yourself fresh start:
1. Write down your mistake
2. Take a mushroom.
3. Go to sleep.
4. Wake up anew.

And so it happens that all the bad never happened, and Katie gets another chance to make things right. She also has a dresser full of magical mushrooms – and an irresistible urge to make her life not just good, but perfect. Too bad that goes against the rules. But Katie doesn’t care about the rules – and she will discover the unintended consequences of the best intentions.

From the mind and pen behind the acclaimed Scott Pilgrim series comes a wild new story about existential fears, everyday obstacles, young love, and old ghosts that is sharp-witted and empathetic, imaginative and wise.