This is yet another case where I’m tempted to just paste the description on the back of the comic here and call it a day, but I shall not! I’m a professional, damn it! Oof, how degraded has that term become if I’m allowed to say it? Anyway, avoiding my dubious qualifications regarding giving my opinions on comics (I’ve read a lot of them for a lot of years and I’m willing to pay a hosting fee for the website?), this one is fascinating. It starts off describing the infinite staircase from Super Mario 64, which I don’t remember at all, but the game is good lord 30 years old now, so it’s probably best that the fine details of it have left my brain. Leo goes into detail about how it’s of course not infinite at all but a trick to deceive the player, before tying that into the famous Penrose Staircase by MC Escher and then bringing that together with the 1946 film “A Matter of Life and Death.” How on earth does all that tie together? Pft, like I’m going to spoil her conclusion. I will say that her tying the only solution to the infinite staircase in Mario to both those three things and what we experience in life was brilliant and that, as always, it was disturbing to see Mario drawn as more or less a normal human being. I don’t know why that’s always unnerving, but it certainly is. Overall this is another damned fine entry in the mini kus catalog, so give it a shot why don’t you? Especially if you have fond memories of this game, because there’s technically a cheat in here for it. $7, or $22 for a pack of four comics (I haven’t reviewed the other three yet, but this is usually one of the safest deals in comics)
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