I’m not sure if it was the use of scene cuts at random places on the pages, or how much detail Tomine gets into each scene and frame despite the sparsity of the writing and drawing – but the pacing of Shortcomings is as perfect as how each character is used isolate everything we need to know about Ben and present it to the reader. Oh and then there’s the frame where his love rival gets ready to practice ju-Jitsu on him and I absolutely