While the familiar-feeling school romance doesn't break new ground, it does deliver a warm, comfortable story of fledgling love starring two shippable leads who will be familiar to Oseman fans.

Art by Oseman (I Was Born for This) is loosely drawn in black, white, and a cool gray-green that fits the story's quiet, casual vibe facial expressions, particularly Nick's, effectively communicate what the characters find difficult to say. A leisurely pace and focus on everyday events school, sports, hangouts allows the characters' relationship to develop in a natural, relatable way. These graphic novels make me feel so incredibly nostalgic. Shortly after their school exams are over they take a school trip to Paris Giving them the opportunity to spend more time together and to be more open with their classmates. Nick, meanwhile, starts to examine how he feels about Charlie, and what that means about how he sees himself. Heartstopper volume 3 returns to the lives of Charlie and Nick. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more. Charlie, having recently realized that the boy he thought might be his boyfriend is just using him for casual make-out sessions, starts falling for Nick, though it's presumed that Nick is straight. Read Heartstopper Now Digital comics on WEBTOON, Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school.

When lanky, openly gay Charlie Spring, 14, is seated next to burly rugby lad Nick Nelson, 16, in a new 'vertical class group' at their English all-boys school, they form a friendship that appears unlikely to those around them, quickly becoming a central part of each other's lives.