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You know how some reviewers refer to any comic featuring a drug trip as
\n“psychodelic” or just go with the easier “weird?” Yeah, I am very tempted to just
\ncall this comic “trippy” and leave it at that. Still, that would be doing a
\ndisservice to the comic, as there is so much more going on here. It is also trippy
\nas hell, and if you’ve done a large amount of LSD in your life there’s a chance that
\nvarious images in here could lead to flashbacks. That’s how that works, right?
\nAnyway, this comic starts off with a young man who is barging his way to the front
\nof a… contest? Selection process? Whatever it is, it’s the process of another
\nperson (?) trying to determine who is worthy to have one of his\/her\/its eyelashes.
\nOne person goes through the process and is awarded one, while the young man from the
\nfirst page bursts through the crowd and just takes an eyelash. The rest of the crowd
\napparently doesn’t take this well, but from that point on all we see is the
\n(distorted, surreal) world through the eyes of these two characters, on whatever
\nanalogy to a drug trip that they’re experiencing, so they don’t have to worry about
\nan angry mob. And man, that imagery. Every panel has at least a little bit of
\nfloating imagery, often unconnected from anything that could be mistaken as coming
\nfrom the “real” world. I often wish for full color in my comics these days, but I
\ndon’t know if my senses would have been able to handle it with this one. From there
\nwe get to experience their trip in all its glory, until the male in the group
\nchooses a confrontation, and things spiral a bit from there. I’d say I’m avoiding
\nspoilers by not going any further with the story, but I could tell you the story
\nfrom beginning to end and I’d still recommend getting this book for the visuals
\nalone. If I had to pick a style it reminded me of I’d say early Ron Rege, sort of,
\nbut also entirely its own thing, so not a helpful comparison. Here’s a test to see
\nif this book is for you: examine that cover image. Really dig into it. If you think
\nyou know exactly what’s going on there, and want to see more, then pick this up
\nimmediately. If you’re not sure what it happening, well, doesn’t that make you
\ncurious to see what you’re missing? $4<\/p>\n

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