Highbone Theater [Hardcover]

In Joe Daly's most ambitious stand-alonegraphic novel, Palmer  wallflower, mystic seeker and paper millworker  moves into a new apartment with his outwardly self-assured andwomanizing friend. Events take a peculiar turn as Palmer befriends an iconoclasticco-worker, Billy Boy, and plunges head-long into the mysterious and sinisterworld of sorcery, psychological operations, subterranean organizations and wild-goose chases.I wish we could all live in a headspace carved out by comics like this one as opposed to spending time puzzling over our feelings for even the most clever and enduring corporate products. Joe Daly is a treasure.Alternating between bold black-and-white panels and brilliant full-color sequences, Daly deftly navigates between the mundane and the madcap, as Palmer struggles through noisy roommates, ineffectual romance, 9/11 conspiracies, and hallucinogenic adventures. Readers familiar with Dalys earlierA 572-page epic odyssey into chaos and sinister mystery that begins with two friends deciding to share an apartment.Existential stoners go on a suspenseful quest in this ambitious graphic novel from the South African cartoonist.