Monologues for Calculating the Destiny of Black Holes

by Anders Nilsen

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An experimental collection of art, humor and philosophy. Monologues forCalculating the Density of Black Holes takes up where the artist's firstvolume, Monologues for the Coming Plague, left off. Like the ComingPlague, the Density of Black Holes is a creatively experimentallaboratory, comprising a collection of free flowing stream-of-consciousnessgags, strips, and drawings that slowly coalesce into an unexpectedly compellingand complex narrative. The hints of story that came together in show more ComingPlague are extrapolated and expanded upon and grow to incorporate some ofNilsen's other outré strips from the anthology MOME, two of whichare reprinted here in expanded form. The book is an audacious investigation intothe rhythms of storytelling, the blurring of media, and an exercise inreconciling contrasts. It is playful, provocative and serious all at once -another tour de force by Anders Nilsen, impeccably and uniquely designed, inblack and white and color. show less

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Short, abstract comic. The artwork is intentionally simplistic, but it's still often nice. Some of the jokes are pretty funny or clever.

Unfortunately, there's just not much in the way of structure across the comic - and it's just long enough that that's a problem. I think it would have worked better if it were more carefully structured as a series of short stories.

I picked it up at random at the library & I don't regret the time I spent with it, but I wouldn't seek it out.

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