Thibault Damour

CW: Animal Death (Pet Dog) [This is initially presented as very sad, but through exploration of the quantum universe it becomes more complex and hopeful]

It's always good to periodically remind anyone reading one of my reviews and myself that I am a nobody who knows nothing and my reviews are my own and subject to a certain uncertainty being a distilled moment of reaction.

This is one of the greatest works of art I have ever had the pleasure of experiencing! The script is emotional, funny, and actually creates an accessible dialogue for these complex concepts. The art is gorgeous black and white with colour used to sparing, informative, and inspiringly beautiful ways! The words and images combine to truly make these genius and baffling, contradictory and complimentary notions come alive and make sense.

The framing device of a children's book style celebrity man and his dog's many famous adventures coming to a tragic end on the moon and a taxidermy pet suggesting their human explore the quantum universe, and how this exquisitely comes full circle and bookends this Alice in Physics Wonderland is as surprising and strange as it is brilliant and perfection!

The journey itself explores the developing, contradicting, and complimentary work of the greats of (white Western) physics with a glorious blending of the everyday, the extraordinary, expressions, and diagrams that flow with a breathtaking and almost tangible surreality. It's like having a wonderful, confusing, enriching dream that washes over you, leaving wonder and understanding (or at the very least planting the seeds of grok) in it's wake.

If you have even the remotest interest in comics, art, physics, and/ or the nature of our reality, I implore you to check this out! I will never stop banging on about how amazing libraries are and I will be eternally thankful for randomly coming across this at the library.… (more)