With The Reason She Left and Other Stories, Kristen Baumgardner Caven opened up new territories in sequential art. Seven short pieces explore science history, martial arts, relationships with animals, road trips, romance and love, and a 30-page tour-de-force of a young woman on a quest to find her own beliefs. In the centerpiece story, free-thinking friends blow her mind with discussions of philosophy, language, war, isms, and disappearing...