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robin_dh's review
challenging
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
neven's review against another edition
4.0
Beautifully composed and illustrated Lynchian story, wildly bizarre, but never annoyingly so—it's grounded in reality and resolved in the end just enough to be tantalizing.
rhonig's review against another edition
5.0
Pachyderme is such a surreal experience. Peeters beautiful artwork leads the reader in and out of a fever dream, constantly moving between the grotesquely fantastic, and the equally terrible reality. This is simply a must read graphic novel.
kazgriki's review against another edition
4.0
This is a surreal tale from beginning to end. I have no idea what is going on but the story is intriguing and beautifully illustrated. I can see David Lynch adapting this for the big screen.
neven's review
4.0
Beautifully composed and illustrated Lynchian story, wildly bizarre, but never annoyingly so—it's grounded in reality and resolved in the end just enough to be tantalizing.
scatteredyarns's review
3.0
The whole time I was reading this I was wondering when I would know that was going on. Now I've finished it and I still don't know what was going on. But the art was really lovely so I'm giving it 3 stars.
youfelinedevil's review
5.0
And yet the goal of this kind of story is to lead readers astray, to rob them of all landmarks, make them struggle with something that comes from within themselves but isn't always easily identifiable.
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I don't think Peeters himself could give us any explanations. That's what's beautiful about it. Above all, no explanations. Things happen, always leading us towards understanding something beyond explanation.
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I want artists to take me far from every sensation I've ever felt before, into territory that is less the perversion than the reflection of some intimate, forceful urge. In Pachyderme lies something mysterious and obvious that must, above all, not be explained.
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The end is release, liberation. But we remain in something just as mysterious as life. Things are benevolent. Period. There is no moral.
- MOEBIUS - Jean Giraud
I mean, yeah, exactly.
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