It’s a Girl and Her d20 Vs. Life in Just Roll With It

Role-playing video games will be onerous, however life is more durable. It’s a lesson that the already anxious Maggie learns when she enters center faculty in Veronica Agarwal and Lee Durfey-Lavoie’s upcoming graphic novel Just Roll With It. Maggie navigates life by rolling a 20-sided die every time she will get nervous, and she or he will get nervous rather a lot… and that was earlier than a monster seemingly arrives at her faculty, as you may see on this unique preview.

Just Roll With It is certainly for teenagers, however it’s additionally about Maggie’s battle with nervousness and obsessive-compulsive dysfunction. “Just Roll With It aims to open a dialogue about mental health for young readers and give them some terminology to help navigate talking about it,” mentioned artist Veronica Agarwal.

“I’m the oldest of eight brothers and sisters and I felt a lot of responsibility to do good,” added Durfey-Lavoie, who’s making his comics debut with the graphic novel. “So when I first started to feel feelings of anxiety and depression I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t even know if what I was feeling was real—that maybe everybody felt that way and I was just not strong enough to handle it. So to me, that’s what I wanted Just Roll With It to be: something to give voice, and direction, to children.”

In this preview, Maggie researches OCD, fails to do her science homework, and first learns of the monster, which she envisions as a dragon as per her favourite table-top RPG. “Her anxiety starts working overtime,” says Agarwal. “Small things that she had always done—saying hello to the house when she gets home, or rolling her dice to help make decisions—suddenly start to impede on her day-to-day life. As the story continues, Maggie has to face the fact that sometimes the things that protect you from potential danger also protect you from potential fun.”

Just Roll With It will probably be out there on December 14.

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