Thursday, February 16, 2017

Memetic


The cover to the trade paperback of Memetic

I’ve decided to continue recommending some of the best gay graphic novels of 2015 with Memetic, written by James Tynion IV, drawn by Eryk Donovan, and colored by Adam Guzowski. Originally published by BOOM! Studios as three oversized issues beginning in late 2014, it was collected in trade paperback in October 2015. It’s a horror comic with a unique gay protagonist as one of its centers and hidden philosophical depths that could be misconstrued as ranting against technology, if the book weren’t tapping into very real anxieties and longings. It upends the expectations of the reader several times along the way to its stark conclusion.