Kukuburi

By Ramón Pérez

I'm on a webcomic kick, now and this one is Alice-esque, mixed with a bit of Death from Discworld, but not actually death (the link above unfortunately is only for future projects since the artist’s site had lost his library). Quite dreamy artwork and it's soothing to look at and read. We get a nice nod to Bill and Ted, as well when she chooses a game to play with Death and it happens to be a classic. Non-Death cheats here too, but claims the piece on Nadia's board was actually showing where her iguana friend, Mr. Bojangles was and how he was attempting to save her.

When Nadia cheats right back, tho, Non-Death is amused in an unhumorous fashion and bumps her off a cliff-like farewell. This wakes her up, she realizing she may have changed her reality (something mentioned in the comic, obv.), then deciding to look for Mr. Bojangles when she sees bunches of bugs crawling around in (maybe) her room and eating it as they scuttled. This is one layered little story and it's fun following along with the preeetty pictures. As Nadia learns more from her sometimes monster-looking friends, she discovers her current reality is colored by her nightmares and dreams, and its originality was scary af.

I also enjoy the french and spanish phrases peppered in, even though I'm nowhere fluent in either, it makes another point in this odd adventure. Nadia gets a chance to confront Non-Death again and he reveals something pretty fucked up about her parents. When she and Non-Death face off over it, something odd happens and they both defractalize, she surviving and some of her weirdo friends meeting up with her, and Mr. B introing more buddies she doesn't rememy but know her from "before". Mr. B then instructs how Nadia can bring things into being by thinking of it, so I'm uncertain how it plays out since the last post is in mid-fight scene. One day, perhaps, but this is 7 years later, so, here's to hoping!