Jessica Farm Book 2 [Paperback]

I like a great deal of Josh Simmon's work and those rare things I don't like I admire. You can make a very strong argument that without becoming a superstar Simmons was the alt-cartoonist of the aughts: idiosyncratic, grotesque, and adept at wince-level physical violence and comedy  all in service of a worldview so brutally cold that aimed in the right direction it could shut down the sun. In the horror show that was world politics for most of that decade, Simmons was the reassuring hand in the dark that took yours into his and then shoved it into something sharp and wet.The sort of book you read very fast for the story, then again right away to slow down and savour the images. As ever, the interiors in particular captivate, darkly hatched and full of mysterious shadows.In the second volume of critically acclaimed cartoonist Josh Simmonss lifelong page-a-month series, Jessica encounters a room whose physics you can alter with your mind and much more.