In Forming Vol. 1, Jesse Moynihan takes these 50,000 years of socio-religious postulation and throws them in the blender to create one epic-and irreverent-battle royal between alien gods, Ancient Greek Titans, interplanetary assassin droids, and humanity itself.
Jesse Moynihan is a long-time native of West Philadelphia's music/art scene. His work has appeared in Vice, The Believer, Arthur, and international anthologies such as Meathaus and Canicola. His previous comics include Xeric Award-winning The Backwards Folding Mirror, and Follow Me, which was published by Bodega in 2009. He is currently part of the creative team behind cult Cartoon Network show, Adventure Time, where he creates storyboards and assists with character design.
These books are a big crazy Jodorowsky-style reinterpretation of
Bible tales and mythology mixed in with lots of funny swearing and
pretty colors. Jesse Moynihan is well known for making the more
cerebral and weird Adventure Time stories. If you saw that and
thought I need more then here is that more you wanted.
--Vice Moynihan walks a fine line between weird and
incomprehensible and between clever and dumb, and manages to stay
on the right side of it through almost every one of these bizarre,
demented panels. I can't say that I've ever read anything quite
like this (though it did call to mind the weirder bits of The
Incal). I'm glad I did.
--Boing Boing Forming is a success on so many different levels.
First of all, it's simply a beautiful art object filled with page
after page of brightly colored and bizarre images. The plot is
genuinely complex and even byzantine at times, with multiple
betrayals, long cons, and elaborate plans all right below the
surface. Because it's well-executed, there's essentially a laugh on
every single page. It's certainly the most hilarious cosmogony I've
ever read.
--The Comics Journal At times funny, violent, thought-provoking,
juvenile (in a good way), and genius [...] Moynihan has a firm and
defined aesthetic that is singular and fantastic.
--Nothing But Comics Forming, a super strange graphic novel
published by the super strange English publishing house NOBROW and
written by possible genius Jesse Moynihan.
--Full Stop
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