added crucial fiction
CRUCIAL FICTION
crucial fiction
Fantagraphics 1992
Despite the name, I thought that perhaps this was an autobio series, just based on the intensity of the start of the first issue. That certainly looks and reads like a confessional religious outsider autobiographical piece, but since it ends with the protagonist building a new Christ from communion wafers and wine, it probably isn’t. The religious themes continue in the second issue, where we are witnessing a retelling of the story of Pope Joan, the only female pope (in the 700s). (more…)