Buddha, Vol. 2: The Four Encounters (Buddha #2)

Brutal Buddhism continues, in vol 2! Now Siddhartha takes center stage, and we follow his adolescence: he's mostly a sensitive young dude with a sensitive stomach (something that was true! the historical Siddhartha died from a stomach illness), and he's mostly trying to flee from his obligations as a prince, son, and - by the end of the book - married man and father. Side stories are, as ever, crazy sauce, full of cosmically random injustices juxtaposed against caste system injustices. Crazy and good.