Smile: For the Camera

Set years before the films, this prequel to Parker Finn's Smile franchise follows five up-and-coming models who arrive in New York for Fashion Month 2005. They bond quickly over the grind of shows, interviews and photo shoots, but one after another they begin to come apart.

The cause is the Entity, a presence that latches onto its victims and tears their lives down through horrifying hallucinations. The models also face a more ordinary kind of predator in the agents, photographers and managers circling them. Hannah Rose May and Miriana Puglia craft a glossy, gruesome story of betrayal and slipping reality. This volume collects the full five-issue series.