When a God is murdered, our detective who I only realised in hindsight when glancing through the book for this review, is never named, is on the case. He follows a series of ever weirder leads into the final showdown to keep reality itself intact.
Lemire's imagination is in full flow in this bizarre and rather delightfully violent tale of creatures beyond our human understanding.
As usual with Lemire, we see the page layouts themselves used as part of the storytelling as much as the artwork and the script.
It's one of the most original pieces of writing I've seen from Lemire. I love that the race of creatures is never named, a solid block overlaid across the name to censor it every time they're mentioned. I love the little touches like that in a story big enough to take in interspecies romance, murder and the possible death of reality itself.
With full frontal nudity and some gruesome scenes, this probably isn't one for younger readers, but more mature readers should love it.
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