Dery, Johanna – Plant Life For Human Lesson #4

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Plant Life For Human Lesson #4

You artsy types, I swear.  Granted, you folks are probably what gets me out of bed in the morning, but for the love of all that is bleak and unholy, please just put a name and a title somewhere recognizable in your books.  Make it tiny even, I don’t care.  This comic is almost certainly not called Plant Life For Human Lessons #4 (the jumble of text at the end made it impossible to tell) and the person who made this book may or may not be named Johanna Dery.  I’m confident on the Johanna part, after that maybe hotmail just cut off the rest of her last name.  That’s what I get for getting books this time around that looked great instead of making sure of all the technical info on the inside.  Enough of my bitching, how about that comic?  It’s the mostly silent tale of a man who has been making a tree bleed to feed the flowers.  A local shaman type chastises this man, and a deer laps up some of the blood.  Things don’t end well for the deer, but the man from the tree learns a valuable lesson from all this, and an odd transformation.  It’s a gorgeous book (or, poor boy that I am, I probably would have skipped it with the $4 price tag), thought-provoking in all the right places.  Check it out, and if you e-mail Johanna please ask her if I got the title even close to right…  $4