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In this breathtaking supernatural graphic novel, a grieving teen finds himself in a haunting alternate reality-the frightening embodiment of his depression.

"Imaginative horror meets honesty about emotional pain."- Kirkus Review

"Walz balances heavy ruminations on death and mental illness with a tragicomic tone and earnest intention."- Publishers Weekly

Theo's best friend has died, and he can't pull himself out of his sadness-a sadness that those around him don't seem to respect or even notice. And then something even more disconcerting happens: His town literally flips upside down and everyone disappears, except for a threatening, shape-shifting monster and a snarky teenage girl who knows her way around this flipped world. Is Theo doomed to spend the rest of his life in this scary state?

Tremendously unique and suspenseful, The Flip Side tackles grief and depression in a fascinating and affecting way.

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Publishers Weekly Review

After his best friend Evan dies of cancer, Theo feels completely alone. Overcome with negative thoughts following Evan's funeral, Theo wakes up to his world literally flipped upside down. Now he's being relentlessly stalked by an insidious, transmuting monster intent on consuming him. As he flees, he receives help from Emma, another teen stuck in what Theo learns is the Flip Side. Emma provides valuable survival tips while managing depression, anxiety, and more, and the pair work together to avoid their monsters. Theo believes that the movie he and Evan were working on before Evan's death holds the key to escaping the Flip Side, but Emma, resigned to never getting out, proves difficult to convince. "Powerfully influenced" by a short story written by his late friend and creative partner, as addressed in an author's note by Walz (the Last Pick series), this emotionally resonant graphic novel depicts vulnerable, bittersweet friendship against the backdrop of a high-concept, speculative premise. Walz balances heavy ruminations on death and mental illness with a tragicomic tone and earnest intention. Theo's real world is rendered in muted tones, while the Flip Side bursts with poppy, surreal color. Ages 12--up. (Apr.)

Booklist Review

In the aftermath of terrible loss and its ensuing grief, it's sometimes said that a person's world turns upside down. Walz visualizes the metaphor to wily effect in a dynamic assault of intricately designed imagery, literally reversing gravity for his desperate characters, turning their suburban town into a thrilling, death-defying obstacle course they must navigate not just to survive but to evade the inexplicable monsters that pursue them both physically and psychically. Though the imagery makes for a striking strangeness, the narrative turns on far more than a visual device. Evan--guiltsick from his last exchange with his terminally ill best friend--and Emma--crushed by depression and loneliness--slowly discover that the monsters here haunt from within as much as from without and that this seemingly abandoned upside-down world itself is made of their deepest emotional vulnerabilities. It is in giving form to a struggle with mental and emotional health that Walz's tale takes on deeper, more significant layers. By turning Evan's and Emma's moment-to-moment battles to survive into simultaneous battles to face their own pain, Walz transcends the already top-notch adventure story and gives readers something more profound, more accessible, and more relevant. Like an updated, emotionally attuned Poseidon Adventure, this makes for a riveting, heartfelt ride.

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Jason Walz worked for many years as a special education teacher, and is the creator of several previous graphic novels, including the Last Pick trilogy and the Eisner Award-nominated Homesick .