Aarrrrrr Tome Troisième

By Antoine Cossé

When we last left our possibly insane hero, he was falling down a hole after having crawled through a giant burger that was blocking the way in the sewer he was travelling through in an attempt to escape from Super Cloud.

If you were hoping that the comic would start to make sense you’re out of luck. The main character spends quite some time falling through various holes before emerging in a chamber with someone else. They don’t know where they are, and they can’t feel anything. The only way out is to climb up into a tunnel and see where it goes...

There’s some really nice layout and design in the pages here that really helps to show what the characters are feeling (mostly despair and isolation). I’m curious as to what happens next.

ARRRRR

By Antoine Cossé
www.antoinecosse.com

Aha! Now this one actually seems to be the first issue. I suppose I should have been able to tell by the number of Rs in the title

However, while this issue does give the “secret origin” of Supercloud (he “used to be on our side, used to rain as every cloud does,” but then he went bad), it’s still pretty insane. Is the guy who is running away from the cloud just completely paranoid? Or is the cloud really out to get him? Some of the characters don’t believe him, others point out that it _is_ a massive cloud, but well, it could just be a big cloud.

Is the main character actually being chased by the rain? Through his artwork Cossé makes it seem like maybe he is, but then again, maybe it’s just rain. I’ve run away from rain before, and that wasn’t because a malevolent cloud was out to get me. Or was it? I do seem to attract snow wherever I go (see: lots of snow in Vancouver when I lived there, but when I moved to England it got record amounts of snow, while Vancouver was left with none).

In any event there are some nice drawings of rain.

ARRRRRRRRR

By Antoine Cossé
www.antoinecosse.com

Damn you supercloud, why you gotta be such a jerk? Causing people to jump out of buildings and get into fights with giant sewer rats.

Okay, so I have no idea what is going on in this comic. A guy (with a beard) wakes up, declares it to be D-Day with supercloud (should I be capitalizing that?), jumps into a dumpster, and then climbs down into the sewers so that Supercloud won’t notice him. He wanders around the sewers for a while, but the best part of the comic is when his way through the sewer is blocked by a giant burger.

It’s just sitting there, with all the toppings. So of course he does what anyone would do in that situation: starts to climb through it.

I’m sure I could go into some deeper philosophical meanings of this, but it’s just weird. Good weird yeah, but still just weird. This may be the second issue of a comic (neither has a number on the cover and I pulled this one out of my zine pile first), so maybe there is a reason for all this stuff. I’ll find out at some point.