5/28/2023 0 Comments Djeliya by Juni Ba![]() ![]() ![]() The art is colorful and playful and vaguely reminiscent of Mignola on acid mixed with a hint Rob Guillory. ![]() The only value of anyone in this book is as a product to be marketed and sold and goddamn if the world doesn't actually feel like that most of the time. Ba hammers home the unending encroach of capitalism, framing corporations as a "cat" and discussing how "the chase is not a game to the mouse." Positioning corporations as colonialists who own the bodies and souls of their colonized workforce was an especial ly horrifying touch. It quickly unravels from there, as we learn the Monkey Meat Company is harvesting souls from the natives to make an energy drink. The book starts by giving the reader a tour of Monkey Meat Island as we follow Lug, the island's "caretaker" around. Ba takes us into the heart of the monkey meat company while absolutely savaging the dark heart of capitalism. This was an absolutely frenetic, bonkers book that really goes for the jugular in the most darkly comedic way. ![]()
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