I picked up in its entirety Farel Dalrymple's prequel to his GN "The Wrenchies" called Proxima Centauri:
Through the six issue mini-series, we follow the main character Sherwood as he tries to escape an inter-dimensional ship and return to his brother and the school/organization that trains these young children/warriors for the fights they'll be engaging in in their future and their world.
To say that this series is cohesive, or makes a ton of sense, or makes sense in some way, would be stretching the definition of the word. The art is interesting if not spectacular, but I could see some fans call it spectacular.
I was sold on the idea that it was "psychedelic," but after reading it I feel like the term has been applied for lack of a better one.
I try to find stories that are weird and out there for their own sake, and this fits, but it also doesn't strike me as one that should be handed over to the fans-of-weird-shit-but-not-always-on-the-lookout-for-comics in my life. I was hoping it would fill that category, but I found it somewhat unfulfilling.
Regular fans of sequential art in the superhero vein certainly won't be interested in the title, and I'm sure Farel and Image know as much. Weirdos like me who are game for weirdness and ideas labeled as "psychedelic" probably either loved it for found it unsatisfying for a litany of reasons. Fans of the art style or of Dalrymple's work itself, would surely be fans of this mini-series.
I didn't dislike it, specifically, but I didn't fully love it either. Just like a weak or mediocre mushroom trip.
