

Even out of his element, Sanchez draws his characters lovingly, making it very apparent that he knows teens like Diego and genuinely understands their peril. Obviously Diego has issues, and it’s up to his supportive probation officer, Mr. On the outside, he’s a lovable, intelligent young man who helps his mom take care of his little brother on the inside, he’s a tortured teenage boy with an anger-control problem and whose arms bear the scars of years of self-inflicted cutting from a shark’s tooth he wears around his neck. At the beginning, albeit for a brief time, Diego is an enigma to readers.

Having punched out one too many classmates, 16-year-old Diego Rivera finds himself on probation for fighting and faces doing prison time if it happens again.
