Unreal City
By D.J. Bryant
2017
First Published
3.60
Average Rating
104
Number of Pages
This collection of short comics by an up-and-coming cartoonist examines relationships spatially and existentially. Unreal City contains five highly charged stories about “Echoes into Eternity,” “Evelyn Dalton-Hoyt,” “Emordana,” “The Yellowknife Retrospective,” and “Objet d’Art.” The stories address gender, narcissism, marriage, subjectivity, objectification, and the thin line that divides love from hate. Bryant’s characters sometimes feel like they are navigating their way through the darkness in an attempt to make sense of love, sex, art, and life. Existential and elliptical, the stories play beautifully against Bryant’s precise and fully-realized artwork, which echoes such masters as Jaime Hernandez and Daniel Clowes. In Unreal City, characters cannot walk into a room without their world turning inside out. Readers will be similarly upended by the discovery of this major new talent. Black & white illustrations throughout.
Avg Rating
3.60
Number of Ratings
226
5 STARS
16%
4 STARS
41%
3 STARS
33%
2 STARS
8%
1 STARS
2%
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