Written and Drawn by C. L. Dahlstrom and Brenden Clawson
This is a nice no text comic book about space aliens, adventure, guns, drugs, money, strip clubs, brain implants, alien worlds, love, and getting eaten by said aliens after you found the girl of your dreams. Or was that girl of your dreams really just a space alien in disguise or otherwise manipulating your senses so you do not run away while the alien is busy chomping down on your brains? This is one seriously twisted comic book that really packs a lot of weirdness in its 24 pages of black and white and brown pages that will delight those who really want to follow a story line by simply moving from panel to panel. There has been a rash of comic books that tell the story line by drawings, rather than relying on text to help define the message of the comic book. Dahlstrom and Clawson have printed up an interesting mix of story line without any words, meaning everyone who reads this will pretty much write their own story to go along with this one.
Everyone who reads this will see something different that makes this an interesting independent comic book for people to read.
Their web site has the comic book that you can read online free, but it is worth picking up the comic book or donating to their cause. The web site is just the comic book, so we over here at Comics Forge will be looking to see where else these two folks go with the story line.
I am going to rate this one five of five stars, in so many ways this comic book is soul satisfying in ways that other comic books are more about the story line. Without text people get to write their own story line to go along with the pictures. That makes this one of the more unique comics to cross my desk in a while. I tend to like any comic book that is exploring and pushing the boundaries of what we see in comic book stores, or what we accept for the comic book medium in general. Anyone who pushes that is worth noting. This is a comic book that is following in a newer format of letting the pictures tell the story rather than adding text to hem in the reader, and I am seeing a lot more of this format crossing the editor’s desk here. The first one like this is ! by Tymothi Godek, which are also reviewing, then add in the Robot Library from Otherworlds and we end up with what is rapidly becoming something that is trending in the independent comic book industry, just drawings, and wonderful ones at that to tell the story without the intervention of words, text, or balloon sound effects.
This one is worth finding and reading either in print or digitally, it is worth owning a copy of this in its physical format.
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