Meuse, Adam – Cross-Eyed

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Cross-Eyed

Eyeballs! Everybody has them, so why not make a comic about them? Adam goes a bit further than that, theorizing that everything has eyeballs, and from that idea several strips were born. The big story in here is more or less an extended illustrated poem, in which Adam talks about how even eyes have eyes, and their eyes have eyes, onwards to infinity. Excellent punchline, but I’ll say no more about it. Other strips are shorter and generally deal with various crises from these creatures, including the beach, ocean and sky all not knowing their own vastness, clouds complaining to a rainbow, another poem with that sort of fell apart but was saved by another nice punchline, raindrops wondering what they’ll be when they hit the ground (and the moment of realization of what they really are when they hit the ocean instead), and a confused desert island. Existential crises galore, that’s what I’m trying to say, with the occasional bit of complete silliness thrown in to keep any readers from falling into a funk. Right up my alley, in other words, but your opinions may vary. I didn’t see this listed on his website, but then again I couldn’t find a website of his that had comics on it, so I’m not sure of the price. I’m going with $4 in my role as arbiter of such things. Not that I ever asked for such a role, but as fewer and fewer people tell me what their comics cost, I’ve decided to just make things up and stick with them, evidence be damned.