When Saif A. Ahmed and Fabiana Mascolo’s Yasmeen debuted in July, I declared the first issue of the series published by Scout Comics as being “as close to perfect as a comic book gets with its perspective-challenging and humanity-filled story” of a young woman surviving captivity by ISIS and making it to the United States to be reunited with her family and face a whole new set of challenges. The series has maintained that high level of quality, both in art and story, in every issue since, but it’s this week’s Yasmeen #5 that may actually be the best chapter of the entire series. It offers not only that same challenging perspective seen throughout but does so in a way that forces readers to confront their own biases in culture and experience.

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