Modan's "Exit Wounds" (Drawn & Quarterly, 172 pp., $19.95) also is about coming to terms with family. Economical of line but vivid in how color denotes emotion, it's the story of Koby Franco, a Tel Aviv taxi driver who learns that his estranged father may have died in a suicide bombing. Consumed by his hostility toward his father, he tangles with Numi, a poor little rich girl who had an affair with his father. Modan crafts a meditation on contemporary identity in which representatives of various generations intermingle, sex is a weapon, and politics nearly conquers love. Modan, who has worked with Etgar Keret, another piquant Israeli graphic novelist and member of the Actus collective, doesn't always like what she sees in her native land. But she'll never turn a blind eye.