For good karma, pick up this book
This fall, I have to complete two degree papers, take comprehensive exams including an oral component, and finish regular coursework on top of working, applying for a more secure teaching gig, writing comics, and feeding a dog. Thank you, Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy, for this distraction from a total mental meltdown. This volume could be described as a trade paperback, as it collects the original stories published in Revolver 1-6 from the same creative team that did Strange Days for Eclipse. Vertigo published this single volume in 1994, y'know, totally predicting all that stuff I said I have to do in 2013 and just for me. And for you! No, no, REALLY! The marriage of Milligan's kinetic writing with McCarthy's surreal artwork brings to life the multiple characters who tell this story. Rudyard Kipling, most renowned for writing The Jungle Book, searches for release from his existence in an opium den, while sometime later or perhaps simultaneously or maybe never, waiter Raju Dhawan and Dean Cripps, a boorish patron in the Indian restaurant where Dhawan works, find themselves immersed in a dimension-hopping adventure. Then there’s the Boy, a directionless young fanboy (like all of you) bummed by being abandoned by his gf to the point of killing himself while talking to whomever will listen on the phone. All of these perspectives are tied together by Rogan Gosh, a legendary Karmanaut who has been conned by the trickster Soma Swami into exploring his own despicable past, including no less than the Curse of Kali. The narrative can be tricky, but the pay off is worth it, and this psychedelic, metafictional romp deserves your attention.
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