druid fluid book compendium

"Lightning Jim"
This is the first book in the "Lightning Jim Universe." Zany "word-weirdness" entrapped within a surreal, stream-of-consciousness "imagery-gelatin." Suggested for mature readers.

Customer Reviews:
"Immersive and splendid. If you can imagine visual poetry, that's this book. Wondrous, complicated images flow over you as ambiguous and hip narration carries you through this dreamscape... if you're into comics that read more like experiences or states of being, you'd love this."

"An Ink-Stream-Journey of the Mind. The thing I find most amazing about Buzz Coleman's comics is that they can be different every time you pick them up. You can read the same psychedelic comic-poem-flow three times on three different days, and find something new and intriguing in it each trip through. The drawings are dense with characters and objects and meanings: an unnoticed detail can pop out at you every time you consider them, and the strange tapestry of words can suggest a new thread linking them all into a narrative you didn't notice before."




"Flexor Amalgam"
(The second installment in the Lightning Jim-verse.) Slice through the mind whirlwinds of the Flexor Amalgam! A surreal, stream-of-science, labyrinth of words and images guide you further through the World of Lightning Jim. Also includes short stories by Phil Coleman and Brad Neal.

"A Tiger Against Thought." 

CONTAINS GRAPHIC (x-rated) CONTENT. This is the book that would eventually be rewritten to become "Lightning Jim". Most of the art is the same as the art used in "Lightning Jim," with about ten pages that have completely different art. The narrative is a bit clunky in places, but the strange, surreal, "stream-of-science" ideas that infuse the Lightning Jim universe books have their first public stage here, so it is a fun and interesting installment for the Druid Fluid Comics completist. However, take note: there is some pretty "graphic" (x-rated) content in here.