


Using Charlie as a focal point, the reader starts as an outcast and can only engage with the rest of the cast as Charlie does. Usdin has created a varied cast of characters and introduces these to the reader en masse in the first issue. Despite trying to avoid unnecessary contact with people, she is strangely drawn to Liv, captain of the college basketball team. Having just transferred to the college, she feels isolated from the other students and builds a wall of indifference around herself.

The adventure opens with Charlie Bravo on her first day at the Georgia O’Keeffe College of Arts. Writer Carly Usdin ( Heavy Vinyl) takes the reader back to college and reminds us how difficult it can be to settle in and make new friends. Following on from a string of popular sporting themed comics, The Avant-Guards, published by BOOM! Studios, is a teen drama centered around a basketball team comprised of drama school students.
