The Weight named one of Publishers Weekly Under-Appreciated Gems!

"There’s a brutal simplicity to Mendes's storytelling in this grey-washed rendering of a girl named Edie’s coming of age in a Depression-era rural landscape, where violent men and heartbreak punch into her every milestone. I’ve been filling in my belated viewing of Kelly Reichardt films this year, whose slowly unfolding lens was recalled in how Mendes’s comics pan over fields or pause on a rabbit in a trap. This collection has been long-awaited for fans of Mendes’s indie comics; despite the weight of The Weight (it’s a substantial tome), like Reichardt’s films, time moves in such a realistic pace here that it’s over tragically fast. —Meg Lemke, comics and graphic novels reviews editor"