CLAIRE MOLIN . IRINA ZHDANOVA

This one runs hot on both ends. Volume 181 opens in Los Angeles, where Irina Zhandova returns for Jessee B in a conservatory full of cactus and slow window light, trading lace for shadow and back again, a magazine in her hands like she is in on the joke. Then the island pulls the temperature outward. Pietro Favaron and Claire Molin let the tide set the pace, wet hair, warm salt light, a white top that keeps losing the argument with the wind. It is her Unfiltered story, and it earns the name without ever raising its voice. Two coasts, two moods, one afternoon that never quite cools down.