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Are you feeling like things have been entirely too normal and sane for you lately? If so, do I ever have a comic for you! This is mostly translated from Japanese (I think), with a few small bits in English. The original characters are above and numbered, the numbers are along the bottoms of the pages with the translations. Things start off with some news reports of a “cycle killer” on the loose, a bored young woman watching tv on a slow night at a takeout place, and a man talking to his wife on the phone while walking home. Throughout the story we get to read about what’s going on on the television, and it’s mostly commercials for completely insane things like the rocket plug, which has to be seen to be believed. The man ends up meeting the killer, the woman meets a man who is wearing his outfit (not that she’s aware of that, but it’s a tense moment for the reader), and we get a flashback to the woman having an awful conversation with her mother (?). I don’t know how to describe any more of this without getting into potential spoilers, if I haven’t already, so I’ll leave the rest of it for you to discover. As for the quality, I would have thought a terrifying story like this would be poorly served by an obnoxious television going on in the background for the entire time, but I would have been wrong. There’s something about the relentless bleating of tv inanities that adds quite a bit to the atmosphere. Check it out and prepare to be unnerved! $6
