The surface

Ales Kot is one of the more interesting young comic-book writers out there. His writing is genre-based yet sloppy and a little bonkers, stripped down yet fractured, almost hyperactive, sometimes cryptic. There is a lot of Grant Morrison in The Surface , also more than a little Paul Pope: like his ido Leggi tutto

Indefensibly pretentious pseudointellectual bull****. >Reality is a subjective holographic projection from the brain, but there may be another world we can explore outside of this. >>Interesting idea! So, how can we turn this into a narrative? >Maybe a threesome? A fleet of monkeys? A fight with...some Leggi tutto

This starts off quite interestingly but veers wildly off the road and crashes down a cliff. Sorry, Ales Kot, but you ought to leave metafiction to the professionals, like Grant Morrison. Langdon Foss' art is superb throughout, however, and is made all the better by Jordie Bellaire's colors.

It all makes sense at the end. Maybe. I don’t know. I’m not sure what to make of all this. I love the concept. But some of it seemed sloppy and cryptic . But then the author told me that before the book barely started. I always love the blurring between what’s real and what might or might not be real. But Leggi tutto

The Surface is the answer on question: "How would look combination of Grant Morrison's Animal Man and Alejandro Jodorowsky's Incal in case the writer is young self-centered, pretentious anarchist with ambition to lecture everyone?" I liked the Change. I almost hate the Surface. Two stars for art and Leggi tutto

Too sloppy and cryptic. I had no idea what was going on...

an excellent testament to the way no matter how hard we try to unravel reality, behind all the tattered curtains we always confront things like lovers, friends, and family. Maybe it reflects a human limitation OR maybe the human shouldnt be described in terms of limitation and getting outside limita Leggi tutto