A phenomenal, scorching piece of comics. It’s a tense, taut piece of work that beautifully renders its air of smothering, unrelenting oppression, with some stunningly precise cartooning. I really, really liked this one.
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This is very fun. Tessler, as always, operates in an almost Aardmanesque mode of elevated histrionics that renders physicality as tentative and spirituality as tantamount to slapstick. Both a leap forward and a natural progression for Tessler.
I had a lot of fun with this first big hardcover. A neat revitalization of the post-pulp conspiracy thriller that prioritizes the inhabiting of its own conspiracy, with a solid willingness for modal flexibility.
Daley’s cartooning is a joy, and he reaches a form of abstraction that stands right on the line between figurative and diagrammatic, and these absurdist gag strips are a perfect vessel.