One strange book. I was surprised to find this is one of the top graphic novel/alternative cartoonists! He definitely posesses a superb sense of classic cartoon stylizing. Everything is hyper-realisitic if contorted and spatially disjointed, as comics generally are, but the narrative is no ordinary progression.It consists of a phantasmagoria of classic and crass comic-book tropes parading (think lots of big busts, sunglasses and cool cookies, big-faced kids) through physical and dimensional impossibility and horror beyond possibility. Many will find this incomprehensible (unless I no longer understand people's capacities). I find it all suggesting that real experience, especially uncomfortable reality, is rendered nonexistent. Parallels with our blurred media and entertainment maybe? Grip's whole journey seems to be to prove that all that happens along the way as well the main character himself, does not exist and intends not to, and that is truly macabre! ( )