One of my favorite analog stories alongside the likes of Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Incal and The Metabarons, Hergé's Tintin, and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a graphic novel called Monster by the author Enki Bilal. Taking place in a 2026 future a step more dystopian than Earth in Wim Wenders' movie, Until the End of the World, Monster twists between the three perspectives of Amir, Leyla, and Nike, three distant people being extrapolated by clandestine forces and reflecting on the failures of human society in the 30 years since a war that orphaned them. Being Yugoslavian, Bilal embedded his experience into his trio, so Monster's extreme surrealism combined with its rapid mood swings and far-from-delicately-woven plot depict
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