(like I said, my sarcasm meter is off)

I guess one has to actually see the book not to be confused, cause it does look really crazy. From what little we see the most obvious (and clearest) thing is it resembles Tintin so I’m not surprised people still want to talk about that even though you already mentioned it.

In what way, Kosmoid?

Especially this album cover:

http://www.free-tintin.net/dessins/etoile_g.jpg

here?http://www.schizodoxe.com/docs/2008/09/burns1.jpg

Not only to the fact that this is going to be a Trilogy of Graphic

Novels… very similar to Burroughs’ The Soft Machine,Nova Express

and The Ticket that Exploded ,but also

Burns’ X`ed Out seems to have no real Beginning or an End, again not

unlike Burroughs’Famous Cut-Up Technique…Plus also the

Fact that the Doug`s Hero in Burns’Graphic Novel is…You

Guessed it…William Burroughs !!! A great interview with the

Master Himself ….on Belgian T.V. Where He Talks

on Black Hole and X`ed Out…http://www.cobra.be/permalink/1.905032

Been to long since a good twisted Charles Burns graphic novel!

Just look at the last pic of the noseless guy… despite a slightly different style using more detail, the aesthetic similarity is uncanny… proportions identical.

This is indeed Tintin on the brown acid.

If you want to read the thing as a whole I’d say wait. But that would be the only reason, Burns said outright that all three volumes are meant to stand alone and won’t be put into one collection.

—–

“This is the first volume of a series of three. From your perspective, are you thinking of them as three individual volumes?

Without giving things away, there is a reason for that. There will be three specific time periods that these books take place in. There’s a reason for that. There is certainly the traditional cliffhanger ending, which I couldn’t resist, but yeah, there’s a reason for it being split into three books.”

—- from his interview at CBR

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?id=28938&page=article

Great article and even better book, read them both!!

I’m guessing Tintin-Doug doesn’t have a name, but Tintin-Doug is what Doug calls him.

I don’t know what Tintin-Doug thinks Doug’s name is when he’s dreaming of him. I don’t assign names to people in my dreams.

And who’s Johnny 23?

Mark, I’m sorry this is probably a very interesting book with a good premise, and I was too quick to judge without fully comprehending your post. It happens.

My sarcasm meter is off, I think, but if that’s a coincidence that suggests the author doesn’t know much about comic books, which I find doubtful…I think it’s a hommage. I like it,

But, funny how the cover art looks so much different than the inside art! Or is that just on the panels you showed?

And I’m sure Mark’s joking, there’s no way it’s coincidence (the whole book it littered with obvious Tintin references.)