Favourite Comics: Monocyte

If that cover doesn't already give it away; Monocyte is a genuine oddity.

(And then you haven't even seen the back yet...***)

Monocyte by Menton3, also known as Menton Matthews, is a self-contained four-issue miniseries, with existential themes and with a dark sci-fi/fantasy story coated in a thick veneer of occult-looking mythology.

Yes. That does sound pretty great.

In art ranging from the passable to the absolutely fucking stellar it details a world suffering under the rule of 2 warring races;  the Antedeluvians and the Olignostics, both immortal, having negated the pull of death itself via magic and science, respectively.

In a vision, a Marquis of the Antedeluvians is made aware that something, or someone, is coming.

He goes to the opposing faction to find out where this vision came from and what it entails only to find out that they don't know either.

Speaking to the Antedeluvian council makes it clear that the vision did not come from either them or their opponents. Which then begs the question...

Where did it come from?

And then...  The third party stands revealed.

It came as an announcement from the angel Lord Azrael, Death himself, of the coming of an immortal necromancer, Monocyte, come to reassert the natural state of things, to bring about an end to the immortality of the factions.

And thus our story begins.

That last is page 15 out of a comfortable 140, so you can rest assured I haven't given much of anything away yet.

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One shouldn't go into this one expecting a normal comic, oh no, this is indeed a weird one, to be approached on its own terms, patiently and laboriously.
Apparently there's been music created to be listened to alongside reading the comic but I'm not too enticed by that sort of gimmick. It wasn't included in my copy at any rate.

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One of my favourite panels out of a horde of them.

"Meet me by nature, then die by the same."

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for your delectation; cover and back to the oversized hardcover:

Not weird at all, no.

Still, the comic is quite memorable and remains one of my personal favourites... even if I still can't quite tell where exactly it ends...