The flashbacks are sepia-toned with pops of blue (especially Emma’s hair) are lovely and the drab color palette of the 2008 sequence reflects the characters’ melancholy. The physicality of the first time Clementime and Emma have sex is used to create something beautiful and powerful. Maroh has a gift for the subtleties of body language and facial expressions. Maroh’s art is manga-inspired, with big eyes and expressive mouths on the characters, but they do make the style their own. Maroh was just discovering their voice and that’s always the easier way to end the story. I’m not particularly sold on the ending (Clementine basically dies of a broken heart) but I also find it oddly honest.
Most of the drama between them is off-panel, but it’s easy enough to fill in the mundane details of a relationship that stops being fulfilling for either one of them. Most of the story is told in flashback until this point (Clementine’s journals provide the narration) and when the story catches up to 2008, not everything is going well between Clementine and Emma. All of this eventually leads to Clementine being kicked out of her house.
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