#SilentSunday ?
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One of my favorite #BD s is 'La Fièvre D'Urbicande' by Schuiten/Peeters. Architect Eugen Robick gets an artifact - a Cube, found under an excavation. He leaves it on his desk and it starts to grow (is it a lifeform?) - the sides gets longer and more vertices starts to form.
At first this a mystery that he documents scientifically, then he worries after calculating how the exponential growth will progress. It outgrows his office and spreads to the surrounding city - Urbicande. This is divided in two parts by a river and passage between the two sides are controlled by the ruling 'Commission' and their police. When the lattice, the cube has grown into reaches the river it enables people to cross and undermines the police from controlling/dividing the city. #BlackAndWhite -
One of my favorite #BD s is 'La Fièvre D'Urbicande' by Schuiten/Peeters. Architect Eugen Robick gets an artifact - a Cube, found under an excavation. He leaves it on his desk and it starts to grow (is it a lifeform?) - the sides gets longer and more vertices starts to form.
At first this a mystery that he documents scientifically, then he worries after calculating how the exponential growth will progress. It outgrows his office and spreads to the surrounding city - Urbicande. This is divided in two parts by a river and passage between the two sides are controlled by the ruling 'Commission' and their police. When the lattice, the cube has grown into reaches the river it enables people to cross and undermines the police from controlling/dividing the city. #BlackAndWhite#Moebius 'Le garage hermetique' is a weird loosely bound collection of story-threads. Stuff happens and are not explained, building a world with a lot of flavor with new dimensions added in every two-page segment. The author writes that an editor saw the first two pages and wanted more, but he had lost the pages when he had to draw that, which explains why there are some many jumps in the story.
To fix this there is inserted Resumes that comments on the story in a non-standard way adding to the flavor.
The world is artificial with three levels that you can travel through by passing certain doors - the garage in the title.Story lines center on Major Grubert and his people, Jerry Cornelius and the person from the first pages - engineer Barnier (that halfway thorough get rescued by a masked figure with a bow).
Some of the characters gets sidelined before the end where the plot is revealed to be a fight over the artificial world and a plan to make it real
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