For one fleeting moment, Max was together with her original Chloe again. Holding onto the memory tightly, Max pleaded to Chloe to wait for her… until she was woken in her new reality. The lucid dream put such a strong hold on Max that even urgent texts from Tristan hadn’t stirred her. Meanwhile, Rachel prepared for her upcoming Hamlet tour. Mulling over the death of her character, Ophelia, Rachel’s mind was plagued with thoughts of the death of her counterpart from Max’s reality. Max met Tristan on the beach where he was training his power – and where he glimpsed another Chloe. After they clasped hands and concentrated, Max saw what Tristan wanted to show her: a Chloe from another string. But while Max tried to connect to this other reality, the Chloe of her current string suffered an other-worldly amount of pain. Max now believes that ‘her’ Chloe is looking for her too.

Time traveller Max Caulfield has been keeping a secret from her close friends, Chloe and Rachel. She’s not from their reality! Now Max thinks she may have found a way home, back to her own Chloe… and so it’s time for the truth to come out! Based on the fan-favorite BAFTA award-winning video game Life is Strange, ‘Strings’ picks up from one of the endings of the original game and follows Max into a new alternate reality. Here, Rachel never died, and she and Chloe are a couple. Here, too, is a young man with an unexpected new power – the ability to disappear – who may offer Max the ability to return home to her original timeline… Collects Life is Strange #9-12. “Make sure you read this.” – The Xbox Hub “This book is the shizzle. Two thumbs up and aces.” – Mass Movement “Life might be strange, but this is hella cool.” – The GWW

"On the shore of an unfamiliar reality, Max has landed in a world too good to be true. Rachel, the girl who suffered a terrible fate in Max's reality, is alive and well, and with Chloe. Both of them are starting a new life to call their own in Los Angeles. Three years have passed since the events of Dust, and although Max is struggling to understand what brought her here, all is well. But then a mysterious young man, Tris, appears, with his own secrets to be uncovered... Tris keeps disappearing and reappearing in the oddest of places. Could he be an echo from a different timeline, or is this something new?"--Provided by publisher.

The heart-wrenching conclusion to Max and Chloe’s story from the best-selling Life is Strange comic series. In the face of an unimaginable threat, can Max use her power to save everyone she loves – and return home? Following on from the BAFTA award-winning videogame Life is Strange, Max Caulfield believes that she has finally found a way to cross the timelines and return to the woman she loves, Chloe Price. In doing so, she will have to leave behind the life she has built with a new Chloe, in a world where Rachel Amber never died. But Max is not alone, as friends and allies old and new – including Tristan, the band the High Seas, and fan-favorite ‘queen of the nerds’, Steph Gingrich – rally to help her in her hour of need! Life is Strange: Settling Dust collects Life is Strange: Settling Dust #1-4. It also collects the comic book debut of Alex Chen from Life is Strange: True Colors, as serialised in Life is Strange: Coming Home #1-2 and Life is Strange FCBD 2021.

Mysteriously gifted with the power to rewind time, photography student Max Caulfield never anticipated that her strange temporal abilities would put her at the center of the dark secrets of Arcadia Bay. In a bid to save her oldest friend, Chloe Price, from being murdered and to find justice for the death of Rachel Amber – Chloe’s closest confidante – Max’s powers caused a hurricane which threatened to destroy Arcadia Bay. Choosing to sacrifice the down rather than lose Chloe once again, Max and Chloe moved back to Seattle, until a year later, Max’s abilities threatened to tear her apart once more. Max jumped to another timeline, where Rachel was still alive. Though two years have passed, Max never forgot where she came from, and now, with the help of Tristan – a boy with the power to “phase” out of reality – she’s ready to push her powers to their limits if it means finally coming home…

Mysteriously gifted with the power to rewind time, Max Caulfield used her new abilities to reconnect with her oldest friend, Chloe Price, and to bring to justice the murderers of Chloe’s confidante, Rachel Amber. Max’s abilities cam at a cost, however: if Max altered the original timeline – in which Chloe died of a gunshot wound – a hurricane would destroy their hometown, Arcadia Bay. In one reality, our Max chose to save Chloe’s life, sacrificing Arcadia Bay. A year later, to save herself from a flux of possibilities that was tearing her apart, Max jumped into a new timeline, reconciling the disparate shards of herself in the process. Max may now be whole, but she’s far from unscathed. In an ocean of possibilities, and in a timeline where both Chloe and Rachel are alive, where does she go from here?

Mysteriously gifted with the power to rewind time, young photography student Max Caulfield became entangled in the dark secrets of Arcadia Bay. She used her strange new abilities to reconnect with her oldest friend Chloe Price, and to bring to justice the men who had murdered Chloe’s closest confidante, Rachel Amber. Max’s temporal abilities came at a cost, however, creating a once-in-a-generation hurricane that threatened the town with total destruction, if Max didn’t allow the original timeline, in which Chloe died of a gunshot wound – to play out. In one sequence of events, Max chose to save Chloe’s life, sacrificing Arcadia Bay. And in a multiverse of infinite possibilities, this is one version of what happened next…