Bone Rest

(Image, 2005-2006)
™ and ©255 Mateo Casali & Giuseppe Camuncoli

A pale man without eyes or a mouth walks into our world through a door marked Exit and wanders into a coffee shop where he meets a waitress named Peace. He says his name is Boon but they call him Bone. A man reads a magic book and becomes another pale man, this one with a mouth who calls himself Mr. Vain. The two fight and Boon-Bone has an argument with the Exit door.

Clearly, this European import (you can tell because there’s a dollop of absolutely gratuitous female nudity) defies, not just description, but almost comprehension. Weird usually gets you at least halfway into my good book, and that’s the case in this semi-lucid hallucination that reminds me of both Mike Allred and Michael Linsner at their most metaphorical and metaphysical.

Here’s yet another Image comic you can learn more about online than from the actual book itself. But that would be cheating, because what we’ve been given here is unusual enough to get me to check out the next issue.

— S. A. Bennett

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