The Best Comic I Read Today Is . . . The Superannuated Man #4

Where do you start in describing The Superannuated Man, written and illustrated by Ted McKeever?  With the gorgeous art, each black-and-white panel worthy of being hung in a museum?

Or with the stream of consciousness writing, seeming non sequiturs flowing into tableau pages of melting David Lynchian imagery?

Or with the mutated talking Rhinoceros and the mannequin head?



 

This was a dialogue heavy issue, which is why I liked it more than the other books on my pull list this week. I have been a Ted McKeever fan since Metropol, enjoying his artistic style and love of “quirky” characters and off-beat subject matter, all presented through expert storytelling.

There are two aspects of this issue that really stood out for me. The first is the two page monologue from He, our hero, explaining what his life was like before the mutants arrived, then breaking character and saying: “Heh.  Had you all goin’ there for a minute, didn’t I?”

The second was the final eight pages, all silent, all monstrous, all harbingers of terror to come.

That is what makes The Superannuated Man, as well as the rest of the Ted McKeever Library, so wonderful – the unpredictable nature of art.

- Aloha -