The fiftieth comic: #407 You Are There

There is something really compelling about worlds that are a step away from our reality. While Mornemont's technology and buildings seem real, there's something odd about an island full of walls dividing properties and the owner of the walls (but not the land in between anymore) charging people to open the gates in the walls. It's how he makes money and stays in some sort of control. Partially the comic covers his life, dealing with the people on the island who aren't happy with his presence, the insanity and weirdness of the situation. It's magical realism of sorts - not as much magical, but weirdness that intrudes in the world. It could be real, but doesn't feel it and probably wouldn't actually work. It's an interesting if bewildering insight into this odd world.

Then there's the storyline of this man, Albert There, regaining the island. It involves some political commentary, but just as much social commentary. It doesn't quite finish, it feels like a rough story, but it's more the dreamlike state this comic lives in, that suits the endless walls this world seems to take place, with how hard it is to reach. It's an area that I want to see more of, but that the story stops before you go too far.