I liked this story, but not as much as I’d hoped after reading Big Kids en Last Year Healthy. This collection of the psychedelic webcomic from Canadian cartoonist DeForge (First Year Healthy, Big Kids) follows the. DeForge uses the ant colony as a metaphore to show how routine and normalcy can derail to create room for dubious, but nevertheless accepted practices and how new generations (are needed to) question these practices. Drawn & Quarterly, 21.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-77046-137-6. Such as fighting the red ants who try to take over the nest, or inseminating the queen ant. Something which all other ants surprisingly accept, even though it does cause them to miss out on the daily routines that all the other ants are occupied with. Neither of them quite fit in with the rest of the ant colony. Main characters in Ant Colony are two gay ants and a kid ant who’s become somewhat delusional after swallowing a cut up rainworm. What all stories have in common, are his bizarre imagination, unique art and eye-popping colours that he always combines to create intruigingly surreal realities. In every book he takes a different approach. This is the third book by DeForge that I’ve read and I must say that he keeps surprising me with the diversity of his work.
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