I've been hearing about this hardcover for a long time and I wasn't too interested until I saw Grant Morrison recommend it somewhere. Grant Morrison usually spends his interviews bashing the state of comics or paying lip service to the works of Milligan, Millar etc so I was intrigued by the book but didn't have enough info on it to consider buying what is really a short story for fifteen dollars. So I ignored it for a while.
Last week I decided to buy it and read it today. And I was very pleasantly surprised to find a work that recalls Kafka, Godard's Alphaville, the films of Alain Resnais, the savage allegorical satire of George Orwell probably other things I'm not really familiar with. I've been really disappointed with all the european creators I've checked out (Moebius, Jodorowsky, Bilal, Igort) but this comic is one of those rare singular experiences where a story breaks new ground with its metaphors, has flavours that seem familiar but probably aren't yet is completely breathtakingly original.
I won't really like to spoil the plot too much but I'm surprised no 'lithers are talking about it so I assume not many have checked it out. Please do so and post your thougths here. Those who have tell me what you thought of it. |
