HEAVY LIQUID

Heavy Liquid is awesome. Paul Pope, renown underground comic artist / writer, delivers an amazingly original, honest and beautifully drawn story as both writer and illustrator.

The story is, in a word, wild. Paul Pope takes the reader on what seems like a nonstop chase through futuristic New York / Paris and beyond. At first a bit difficult to grasp, the story follows a man known only as S, who is in possession of a mysterious substance called Heavy Liquid. Throughout the story, details about the nature of the liquid are revealed, though mostly obscured and only one thing is immediately clear: everyone wants Heavy Liquid. The only context the reader understands it in is as a drug, which S indulges in rather frequently, but the reality is something much more.

As S is pursued by all manner of characters, gangsters, artists, the government, it eventually becomes clear that Heavy Liquid is much more than a drug. The big reveal is that Heavy Liquid is an extraterrestrial being, that arrived on earth on a meteor. The question becomes: how has S been taking a drug, that is in actuality an animate life form?