Yes! This is amazing. I sat down to read the first story and was quickly swept off, turned inside out, reduced to my basic chemical formula and reconstituted mostly as water!
The stories seem to circle and twist through a world rooted the everyday, but always taking a turn into a hidden passage of phrase and picture that is occasionally sublime...
Almost every phrase demands a rereading, I skimmed through, "Here as an Exorcist of words his task is to locate the Harlequin", then stopped and went back, thoughts sparking off everywhere. Is he breaking down the difference between an idea or concept and the representation of that in words? Trying to perceive the clarity of an idea or a thought in its purest form, before words maybe obscure or represent that meaning...?
It strikes me at this point that I'm thinking too much about a single panel... but the comic is filled with moments like this; a deceptively simple arrangement of words can suddenly take on a staggering array of meanings and possibilities...
Overall it's the kind of work you need to savour as a whole rather than dwell too long on individual incidents. The sum of the parts leaves you thinking on and on - maybe similar to a Herman Hesse novel or something, where it only starts to sink in when you absorb it as a whole....
The drawing has a really free but controlled line that moulds brilliantly with the nature of the constantly evolving insanity of the stories that always remain articulate and lucid...
Quite an eye opener.
David Birchall