A phenomenally cool comic. Its profound alienation asserts itself breathlessly, sweatily, with such propulsion that one has no choice but to be persuaded. Gorgeously sharp-edged cartooning bringing to life a book whose edge feels entirely earned.
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An aesthetic hijacking of the highest order, emulating atmosphere to demonstrate how arbitrary its rules really are. An incredibly neat book that showcases the collapse of its world — and invites you to join in.
Daria Tessler’s CULT OF THE IBIS is a lot of fun. Gorgeous in a Woodring-by-way-of-Ott way, balancing whimsy and wrongness, with a story at once straightforward and opaque, as to say “your understanding of the underlying rules of the world is conditional and can end at any moment.”