Giant Days Vol. 14

Overview

Giant Days Vol. 14 closes out John Allison and Max Sarin's long-running comic about three university friends navigating adulthood in Sheffield. The volume brings Daisy and Esther to graduation, with Susan standing by to see them through it, before jumping ahead a year to find the trio pulled back together for one more ordeal.

That ordeal centers on Esther, now facing a hostile dynamic with a group of "head girls" making her post-college life miserable. Daisy and Susan regroup to help her through it, and the book uses this late crisis to revisit the found-family bond that has carried the series from its earliest issues.

The collection gathers the final two issues of the main Giant Days run along with the one-shot continuation As Time Goes By, giving the story a two-part sendoff: an ending at graduation, and then a true ending a year later.

A Long-Running Friendship Comes to a Close

Across its run, Giant Days built its appeal on the texture of ordinary crisis — roommate friction, awkward romance, academic panic — rendered with sharp comic timing rather than high-concept plotting. This final volume leans into the inevitable question any coming-of-age series must answer: what happens to friendship once the shared dorm, campus, and daily proximity disappear. By splitting the finale into a graduation chapter and a one-year-later chapter, the creators resist a tidy, single-moment closure in favor of showing the friendship tested by distance and time. The choice to bring back a workplace-style antagonist dynamic for Esther, rather than simply coasting into an uneventful goodbye, keeps the emotional stakes active right up to the final pages, reaffirming the series' consistent idea that growing up doesn't mean growing apart.

Why Giant Days Vol. 14 Has Been Challenged

Mature language and frank depictions of young-adult social conflict are the typical flashpoints raised against this volume, as with earlier entries in the series. Complaints have focused on the comic's casual profanity and its unvarnished portrayal of interpersonal cruelty among young women, content some reviewers consider inappropriate for the shelves where graphic novels are often placed alongside younger teen material. The book has been formally challenged in 1 state and 1 district within the records tracked by this catalog, with objections rooted less in any single scene than in a broader discomfort with comics aimed at older teens and young adults carrying adult-register humor and conflict.