This one took several turns that I wasn’t expecting but it was also genuinely brutal in its depiction of mortality. So if you’re here for a quick review, yes, I absolutely recommend it, but since anything I say about it is going to be at least a slight spoiler, stop here if you’re willing to just accept mini kus as a mark of quality and go from there. For the rest of you, this is a wordless (but not soundless, and those are some genuinely haunting sounds) comic that starts off with a stone statue surrounded by some futuristic architecture, which instantly places the reader in another place and time. From there we briefly watch a woman getting ready for her day, followed by her distraction when she hears a loud scream coming from the street below. It’s not good news, to say the least, but she has to go back to continuing to go about her day before arriving at work. When she gets there… well, that’s what sample pages are for, as the image below is what she sees. Quick, what do you think is happening there? Place your bets! Her work day is also fairly mundane, before she finally gets a customer. What follows is also mundane, horrifically so, but it’s chilling and a fair representation of where we’re most likely heading as a society. This one is well worth checking out, either by itself or through my usual recommendation: as the last of a four issue set of comics that you can get for $22.
