5 Comics Worth Reading This Weekend (23rd October)
3. The Electric Sublime #1
IDW, Maxwell Prince/Morazzo/Lopes/Good Old Neon
Worth Reading For: The Deadly Art!
The Electric Sublime tells the story of Arthur Brut, clinically insane ‘Dreampainter’ who appears not only to be capable of stepping into paintings as easily as we slip into dreams, but he also understands them as if they were people. (Which, after all, they really kind of are.) This could be just a lovely trick to practise from the confines of his padded room in the asylum he lives in, but he has to lend his talents to investigators trying to find out why people are resorting to murder and suicide, seemingly just because the Mona Lisa has decided to wink.
This is been the best thing I’ve read this week by a long shot. Another psychedelic trip into comics but one in which the possibilities are endless and deadly. If you like the reality-shifts of Planetary and the ‘cultured’ oddities of The Invisibles, I think you’re going to like this.
“Art is important to me,” says writer W. Maxwell Prince in an afterword that comes at the end of a surreal love-letter to the medium. That much, is made very clear.