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Was Hallucigenia the one where that wife and her husband find a dead horse in a barn / cult shrine? I've got a mixed reaction to that. The imagery was pretty intense, but it's shot through with this weird vibe of Jews(iirc)-scientists-sorcerers being the same terrible thing. A good amount of the stories in Imago have these weird concept mixing problem. I get the feeling Barron has a somewhat poor grasp of science. I suppose I can see where he's coming from, but I don't feel like he pulls it off well.
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Helical Nightmares posted:
See, I disagree with that on both Parallax and Black Sloth. Parallax I think was different enough from the other stories that it worked pretty well. I suppose I just imagined the way he felt to be similar to insomnia, like the emotional equivalent of not sleeping for days in a row. I don't think that "slow spiral into madness" applies because he started out that way. Editing out parts of B.S. would lessen it imo, because part of the point of him being in hell is because he doesn't know he's there. Yet all these little visions and stuff are trying to jog him into realizing the truth. Only once he realizes can he move on and be ushered into the movie theater, and in time make his way back out. So it would be essentially the same, but it looses a little bit of the journey aspect. You have to understand before you can atone, etc. "Having a psychic break" is a good technique for Imago because, like you said, it's a really short breakdown and actually applies to the plot. I still think Imago would have been better if it wasn't so ... well, *gets high as gently caress* *listens to extreme drone metal* "  Holy poo poo look at these picture its like activating your DNA man  " "People are pretty much bugs on the cosmic scale man" "Sex and human 'love' is pretty much the same as aphids mating but like forever. Let's debauch this cathedral." "Total dark instar cosmic entomology" "Existence is like this grim fractal" *Woah 4D imago sequence* fin I dunno, is it dumb for me to harp on the weird pseudoscientific tie ins? I don't want to sound like I didn't like it, because I really enjoyed Imago (and that whole collection), but I guess I could live with it being more mysterious. I suppose it's easier for me to accept that people could have their lives or whatever affected by some mysterious force.
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Here is a small weird tale I found, in comic form Powerful stuff. I feel like there's probably a shitload of comics that are that kinda weird, probably should hit up the batman forum
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