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So, you've tapped into a deep fear of mine that I don't like to share with others. As I've grown and studied biology and psych, I came to the realization that life has many chaotic flaws/issues, and that's just a fact of chemicals and physics. There are no guarantees in life.
So, what if there are no guarantees in death either? Nature chooses and is a bastard sometimes, and since an afterlife doesn't affect that process, there's nothing to say that evolution has provided a contingency for what becomes of ones consciousness/soul after death. Maybe it actually sucks! Maybe god IS as flawed as we are, and lacks the power to do anything about it.
But, being a little more grounded, I truly believe that conscious relies on the complex workings of synapses, sodium ion chains and what have you. When those cease, so does the experience. This is actually quite comforting to me, as it means every life, no matter how tortuous, gets an out. The great equalizer.
The alternative, given what I believe about natures flaws, is for me too horrifying to consider. Exactly like your comic. A soul stripped and flayed over eternity for the sin of existing.
I'll take the void thanks!
Eh, I imagine there would be people that would take that information and see it as a new form of physics to master. If an "afterlife" exists through the same evolutionary process that it took to develop us physically, then that would insinuate that, with enough time and research, we could reasonably understand such "afterlife" and influence it. It would give people the ultimate goal of progressing human development before their demise. If they succeed, they get a heaven that they not only know to be true, but one they built. Or, they squander their opportunity and are effectively punished. It would be an actual, tangible purpose, very high risk, very high reward.
.....I may have been talking to boomers too much recently.
Nah you got they right. Amidst the supposed pandemonium, there'll always be a group to do that.
There's at least two games that ponder why that is a bad idea. STALKER (at least for fucking around with the mind and consciousness) and WH40K (the Realm of Souls/the Warp). Over the top, sure, but danger is something to consider, supposing such a realm was real.
Hey, You had the same thoughts I had when I had that horrible reaction to medication that one time!
Yeah, seriously. It took me days to get over the reaction. It left me scarred.
I feel I share the same views, consciousness ending when the neurons stop firing and then oblivion. Which seems nice.
The only way I am able to reason an afterlife unfortunately aligns with this comic and your mention of the flaws of nature..
Suppose what we call consciousness is our ability to be aware that we are alive and it is the state of whatever is happening in our brains at one moment in time. Now assume a couple more things: consciousness is continuity therefore a break in it is an impossibility and now assume time is infinite (there is no heat death)
What we are left with is that our consciousness will jump eons, forever persisting because every improbable way in which you survive instead of dying becomes a certainty. Left to the reader to imagine what that would look like for every type of death
Here's a hint, everyone you care about and anything that matters to you dies or disappears because they aren't you
Because existing in the way that was was too painful.
And he got curious, remember that the title is Adam and think on what you know of different religions, the Bible etc.
About the creation of man. It's a really cool idea, and honestly? This is basically what scientists do.
They ask "why?" and "how?" to their own detriment.
One of the most successful female scientists from Poland died because she was researching radioactive material. She did great things for the world, but at the cost of radiation poisoning.
You could even parallel that to science, and interpret at finding out that there's no god.
Why did we do that? Because if he didn't, we'd have a boring panel of a guy deciding not to take the leap, not to push through and the comic would end.
Is he stupid? Maybe, depends on how you interpret that. Certainly curious, driven, and bitter.
After all there's many people who would gladly risk becoming atomised just so they can spit god in the face.
I love Juni Ito but this reminded me more of Dark meets 2001: A Space Odyssey.
I could see where you are coming from though and I loved every panel of this comic.
I'll have to read that I haven't heard of it. It does only remind me of Junji, though, like something he would have made when he was younger. It's not up to his level yet, but it is reminiscent.
the man essentially gets tempted into the higher dimension believing he will find his creator, who has made his life so miserable. what he instead finds is a degraded god, much like the mortal himself
When he reached out from the orb in panel 8, I felt that it read like he was reaching out to himself in panel 3. Was that intentional or me just reading into it?
I think that's intentional, with the lamp being similar in both panels.
I also think that the god he finds is himself, before reaching into the ball, just weirdly deconstructed. It seems to be standing in a corridor and just flows like that for me.
Panel 8 occurs a few moments after Panel 3
In Panel 3, he grabs the beckoning hand
The hand starts pulling him inside of the sphere, and Panel 8 shows a low perspective of his body being pulled in.
Ok, whoa. Holy shit. Not only is the art fascinating, it twisted away from any expectation I had of the plot and what an amazing ride. The last couple of pages were goosebump inducing. “I gave god a form” holy shit dude
I'm more confused than scared.
I dislike the confusing horror honestly, since, well hard to understand.
But still your panels are ***godly op***, like great direction and stuff, good work.
Just confusing though.
To simplify, the main character jumped into a tear in space-time, that hypersphere. A 4th-dimensional object that looked 3 dimensional as it passed through our plane of reality. Once he entered it, he gained access to the 4th dimension and all the horrors that come with it.
Past, present, and future were laid out like pages in a book, every Planck second of time given its own. Every Planck length, width, and depth are all included. Meaning that he could see his own innards as if they were cut up into infinite, infinitely thin slices. He saw his birth and death, every moment in between, every moment before and after, from every possible angle.
He essentially became omnipresent. His consciousness extended everywhere and nowhere at all times and no time. In the end, he saw the face of god and screamed. God also seemed spooked by having been seen by a mortal.
Ah, interesting.
>God also seemed spooked by having been seen by a mortal.
That's fair, I mean, random stranger enters your house one day, freak anyone out.
Not the first time that it happened either. Last time he got spooked so bad by a visit that he scrambled the languages.
Easily one of god's greatest crimes...Creating F\*ench
There’s also a bootstrap paradox.
The hand that beckoned him into the Hypersphere in the first place in panel 3 is his own hand, emerging through the tear in space time in panel 8.
Excellent work. This Christmas gift is much appreciated, OP. Hyperspacial existential horror! Hard to approach, hard to pull off with this much style and success.
I'm atheist, but the message I get from most religions is that if we are created in "His" image, then that means he is as hedonistic and hideous as we humans would be...
I love the dark imagery. The call of the void and eternal darkness seem pretty fucking chill.
"What has a beginning but no end?" Death.
To be fair, there’s a lot of debate about what “image” means. Some people simplify it like “oh, he’s got a head and a torso and two hands and two feet, and we were designed as lower reflections of this same sort of idea” while others say “well the way that we think and feel and are, he also does, on a base sort of level. Higher though he is, he has a sense of self and a sense of desire just like us”. That might not necessarily imply a god that is beholden to the same kind of ugliness that you describe, but it also doesn’t discount it, except for the notion that he is a “perfect” entity, but then we aren’t too sure what perfection actually truly looks like, are we? Fun thing to deconstruct
What's funny is you can describe and draw Christian, Jewish, and almost any other God however you like, but if you dare draw Allah or Muhammed you will be hunted down like a dog.
Weird how "perfection" has been used to kill millions in Gods name
Yeah yeah, religiously motivated wars are a thing, and Islamic practices of no image ever stand out like a sore thumb against some other Abrahamic practices, this is news to nobody, your point being?
Besides, bringing up those millions killed is a hell of a tangent. Is that what you always and exclusively talk about when religion is on the menu? Are you of the opinion that if we had no religion then we wouldn’t be having any wars ever at all? Cuz that’s kinda how this is reading
In physics, you learn of the duality of some forms of "matter" such as light or the electron cloud. They can be (act within an environment in the manner of) either a wave (like microwaves or sound) or a particle (like sand). The thing that determines which of those two states the object will be in, is actually human measurement. But the very act of us looking at these subatomic particles, we force them to take a "shape" they never actually had in the first place.
This is what I thought of when the man sees the god. By the improbable circumstance of a human actually being able to forcibly observe the being, it is forced into a form it never had, and is in agony for that.
I loved the comic. It's very deep and I haven't figured out why yet. Thank you for creating it.
The "measurement" in physics is not a human or consciousness phenomenon, this was a badly chosen word. Any interaction between two particles collapses the wave. To measure, the instrument needs to affect the measured particle to get a feedback on what happens next, that happens regardless of conscience or human intention.
Yeah, but that doesn’t really take away from this notion of confronting god forcing him to take a horrible shape, as the poor lad breaks out of the hyper sphere for a moment and that act might be the same as one particle hitting another and forcing it to act a certain way.
i saw a video of what a 4d sphere would look like passing through our third dimension, and just sort of snowballed from there. I thought it would be interesting if a 4d sphere were a sort of entity that could transport you into a higher dimension where a creator/godlike figure exists. how the main character interprets finding a horrendous creator is up for interpretation i guess.
Imagine if he comes undone, and then is suddenly back to where he started, now wiser (crazier) by the experience.
How do you explain the 4th dimension? How do you even begin describing it? How do you live now that you've experienced time itself and broke through the veil?
How are you going to keep on going, confined to one moment in time and consciousness in one mortal form?
What if that's what Hell is like, and you've been living in a denial dream of "reality". But now.... Now you see the whole truth, and not the spherical glimpse that used to beckon you.
(This reminds me of Cult, a TTRPG and I love it)
i should've known this was gonna turn to horror. but man. those last 2 panels really filled me with the kind of fear i only get from genuine nightmares, and certain "visual cogito hazards" for lack of a better phrase. (i used to know the term but have since forgotten it. and no, i'm not referring to the Uncanny Valley. although that can fill me with the same sense of fear as well.).
That was absolutely magnificent and brilliant
However, I'm tired as hell and did not expect it to become that hard to understand
Thus, if someone was willing to help me there, I would gladly take the explanation, as it confused me along the way
Thanks !
The backgrounds on pages 4-6 reminds me of this game where a shiny sphere smashes glass geometrical pillars while traveling in a weird dimension https://apps.apple.com/us/app/smash-hit/id603527166?l I’m sure it has nothing to do, just tought for a moment this was gonna be like the Minecraft comics. Imagine horror based on Tetris or Pong. My brain is fried, love this artist’s comics.
Also is it intentional or the face of God looks like those baby MRI meme pictures?
I used to LOVE smash hit. You just unlocked a core memory of when I used to play on my iPad 1.
Those creepy MRI pics are exactly where I got that inspiration.
I have a bit of dissociative psychosis, and reading this (especially the part about always being born and always dying, always existing) is similar to how I feel during a bad episode! Cool to see it put into art.
That was fuckin *wild*
Edit: I’m reading through it a second time, is the >!story a loop?!< I don’t fully grasp the significance of this, but the implications are nuts. I feel like I’m so close to comprehension, but it’s juuuust out of reach.
I just started reading again, decided to sink my teeth into the Lovecraft Collection I never finished. I go straight to A call to Cthulhu. I read a few pages, put it down for bed, scroll a little, and run into this almost immediately. I fucking love this. The art in the last 2 slides is exquisitely uncomfortable, especially within the context of what you wrote. Amazing. I'm checking out your page.
Really good
Love the higher dimensional aspects. The hyoersohere entering the 3d plane as a growing/shrinking sphere. The 2d representation of a 3d person. The description of time as an observable dimension. Amazing
Epic, I really like this kind of Metaphysical Complex stuff, it’s very interesting, do you have more?
https://preview.redd.it/y60k71vvit7c1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c43a874d7c88763ecf1aefceda38933b320c5b7
... I wonder... Is he seeing himself, after going through something a mortal mind can't comprehend?
Is the beckoning hand from the sphere his own hand in a continuum that no mortal could comprehend, and he's just reaching out to an image, thinking he's seen god, but all he found was himself from before.
Speaking if mortals below, because he has become "god"?
As a huge Junji ito fan (no joke was about to get off reddit to read some more of his stuff and this stopped me) amazing work! Gave me chills at the end. Seeing the god you created for this comic frightened me! Great stuff!
God and Adam are one and the same by the end. A man cannot perceive a god and a god cannot perceive that perception. As God descends to mortality he ascends with the knowledge of his own conditionality. Adam ascends to the level of godhood by doing what no man can while he descends into his own absolution. Neither can comprehend it and are caught in the endless paradox as mirror images.
This reminds me of 2 separate instances of psychoactive substances. The god-heirogliphys who existed as a malevolent wall and the flesh-bag people who represented the skin-sack that we are. I'm not crazy, I just am trying to sum up the weird trip, lol. Good shit, man. This is my kind of weird.
Well… y’know how in particle physics, there are some particles that act both as a particle and as a wave? But in order to measure the particle’s presence we need to knock another one into it, which kinda tends to lock it into one singular behavior after the fact? Think of this guy’s ripping a hole in the fabric of reality as being the same thing as doing that. God is “collapsed” from a three dimensional being interacting with four dimensional space in the only way it can, and so he too becomes 3D, but he was… unprepared for that, shall I say. Hence, the… thing… that he took shape as.
This comic is so SO good, it’s just hard to figure out the point of view for the last few panels. To me it feels sort of like the gate guardian. That the tendril hair entity is his equal from a different plain of existence. And so the last few panels is how they see each other?
At first I wasn't sure if this was an actual "serious" comic or if the last panel was going to reveal the god to be a dickbutt or something. Kind of glad it stuck to it's guns as a horrible, terrible, awesome thing.
Didn't think I would feel seen, intrigued and moritifed at 3:40 in the morning from a comic on reddit, but I'm not complaining. Very nice art style and interesting story.
So the main message is there is no real logic and meaning in good and evil and life at all so trying to search for some kind of meaning beyond what us mortals can see is pointless because there is no point, it's just a bunch of chemical reactions and luck ?
I got fucking chills when reading this. I don't know if it is because how similar the psychological aspects are to the story that I am writing myself, or simply, inherently, horrifying. Brilliantly done. Hope to see more.
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amazing, loved and hated every minute of it
thank you!
So, you've tapped into a deep fear of mine that I don't like to share with others. As I've grown and studied biology and psych, I came to the realization that life has many chaotic flaws/issues, and that's just a fact of chemicals and physics. There are no guarantees in life. So, what if there are no guarantees in death either? Nature chooses and is a bastard sometimes, and since an afterlife doesn't affect that process, there's nothing to say that evolution has provided a contingency for what becomes of ones consciousness/soul after death. Maybe it actually sucks! Maybe god IS as flawed as we are, and lacks the power to do anything about it. But, being a little more grounded, I truly believe that conscious relies on the complex workings of synapses, sodium ion chains and what have you. When those cease, so does the experience. This is actually quite comforting to me, as it means every life, no matter how tortuous, gets an out. The great equalizer. The alternative, given what I believe about natures flaws, is for me too horrifying to consider. Exactly like your comic. A soul stripped and flayed over eternity for the sin of existing. I'll take the void thanks!
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Eh, I imagine there would be people that would take that information and see it as a new form of physics to master. If an "afterlife" exists through the same evolutionary process that it took to develop us physically, then that would insinuate that, with enough time and research, we could reasonably understand such "afterlife" and influence it. It would give people the ultimate goal of progressing human development before their demise. If they succeed, they get a heaven that they not only know to be true, but one they built. Or, they squander their opportunity and are effectively punished. It would be an actual, tangible purpose, very high risk, very high reward. .....I may have been talking to boomers too much recently.
Nah you got they right. Amidst the supposed pandemonium, there'll always be a group to do that. There's at least two games that ponder why that is a bad idea. STALKER (at least for fucking around with the mind and consciousness) and WH40K (the Realm of Souls/the Warp). Over the top, sure, but danger is something to consider, supposing such a realm was real.
Hey, You had the same thoughts I had when I had that horrible reaction to medication that one time! Yeah, seriously. It took me days to get over the reaction. It left me scarred.
I feel I share the same views, consciousness ending when the neurons stop firing and then oblivion. Which seems nice. The only way I am able to reason an afterlife unfortunately aligns with this comic and your mention of the flaws of nature.. Suppose what we call consciousness is our ability to be aware that we are alive and it is the state of whatever is happening in our brains at one moment in time. Now assume a couple more things: consciousness is continuity therefore a break in it is an impossibility and now assume time is infinite (there is no heat death) What we are left with is that our consciousness will jump eons, forever persisting because every improbable way in which you survive instead of dying becomes a certainty. Left to the reader to imagine what that would look like for every type of death Here's a hint, everyone you care about and anything that matters to you dies or disappears because they aren't you
So he wanted to confront the god who made him this way only to be tricked into meeting some entity that seems to parallel his existence.
thats good way to summarize it
OP can I ask why? Why would such a being do that to him
Well it's the foundation of many religions. The being does that because it is created by imperfect man.
Something to do, innit
Hahahaha , well, it fills the time doesn’t it? Hahaha that would be the worst thing oh wow
Why would he do that? Is he stupid?
Because existing in the way that was was too painful. And he got curious, remember that the title is Adam and think on what you know of different religions, the Bible etc. About the creation of man. It's a really cool idea, and honestly? This is basically what scientists do. They ask "why?" and "how?" to their own detriment. One of the most successful female scientists from Poland died because she was researching radioactive material. She did great things for the world, but at the cost of radiation poisoning. You could even parallel that to science, and interpret at finding out that there's no god. Why did we do that? Because if he didn't, we'd have a boring panel of a guy deciding not to take the leap, not to push through and the comic would end. Is he stupid? Maybe, depends on how you interpret that. Certainly curious, driven, and bitter. After all there's many people who would gladly risk becoming atomised just so they can spit god in the face.
Great response, but you entirely missed the joke lol
I tend to do that
Brilliant. From the first panel, I was sure I would love it. This is the kind of Junji Ito/Lovecraft of story that I need more of in my life.
much appreciated!
You like playing with the laws of whats real don’t you? I’m working on something like that as well. Enjoy.
Good job
100%, it reminded me of junji ito. It was very nice to read
I love Juni Ito but this reminded me more of Dark meets 2001: A Space Odyssey. I could see where you are coming from though and I loved every panel of this comic.
I'll have to read that I haven't heard of it. It does only remind me of Junji, though, like something he would have made when he was younger. It's not up to his level yet, but it is reminiscent.
Reading this was a horrifying, yet captivating, experience. 10/10
thank you so much!
This was amazing, you've managed to create a whole experience within a comic, and I immediately want to share this with all my friends
appreciate it!
I have no idea what I've just read, but it's definitely interesting!
Just gonna up vote you for saying what came to say.
Just gonna upvote you so you can reach 10 upvotes
Just gonna upvote you to add a caboose to this train
Choo choo!
Chugga Chugga Chugga Chugga
Clickity clack clickity clack goes the train down the track
I think it’s about how God is terrified of how we view him
Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?
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the man essentially gets tempted into the higher dimension believing he will find his creator, who has made his life so miserable. what he instead finds is a degraded god, much like the mortal himself
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I read it that way too. I Ike that a *lot* better.
Same
When he reached out from the orb in panel 8, I felt that it read like he was reaching out to himself in panel 3. Was that intentional or me just reading into it?
I think that's intentional, with the lamp being similar in both panels. I also think that the god he finds is himself, before reaching into the ball, just weirdly deconstructed. It seems to be standing in a corridor and just flows like that for me.
I saw that too and wondered if there was a meaning behind that.
Panel 8 occurs a few moments after Panel 3 In Panel 3, he grabs the beckoning hand The hand starts pulling him inside of the sphere, and Panel 8 shows a low perspective of his body being pulled in.
Oh I figured that the hand beconing him into the sphere was his own. Since time is a physical space in that dimension it would make sense.
What about the last panel though? Who is the other entity that showed up?
I don't know what this is but it goes HARD
“That absolution was not a destiny, but an atrocity - mangled and unfinished, like the mortals who dwelled below” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Sick use of a 4th Dimensional perspective my dude
Oh, you're the author of the Uncanny Valley comic! I knew the art style looked familiar. Stellar work!
yea i am! thank you
I was specting some uncanny jumpscare like last time. Gotta stop reading these near bedtime Although really cool comic again OP!
Congrats, I said “what the fuck” out loud with feeling
I really don't understand quite what I just read but that is some great art there and the story seems to be good as well
Ok, whoa. Holy shit. Not only is the art fascinating, it twisted away from any expectation I had of the plot and what an amazing ride. The last couple of pages were goosebump inducing. “I gave god a form” holy shit dude
I'm more confused than scared. I dislike the confusing horror honestly, since, well hard to understand. But still your panels are ***godly op***, like great direction and stuff, good work. Just confusing though.
To simplify, the main character jumped into a tear in space-time, that hypersphere. A 4th-dimensional object that looked 3 dimensional as it passed through our plane of reality. Once he entered it, he gained access to the 4th dimension and all the horrors that come with it. Past, present, and future were laid out like pages in a book, every Planck second of time given its own. Every Planck length, width, and depth are all included. Meaning that he could see his own innards as if they were cut up into infinite, infinitely thin slices. He saw his birth and death, every moment in between, every moment before and after, from every possible angle. He essentially became omnipresent. His consciousness extended everywhere and nowhere at all times and no time. In the end, he saw the face of god and screamed. God also seemed spooked by having been seen by a mortal.
Ah, interesting. >God also seemed spooked by having been seen by a mortal. That's fair, I mean, random stranger enters your house one day, freak anyone out.
Not the first time that it happened either. Last time he got spooked so bad by a visit that he scrambled the languages. Easily one of god's greatest crimes...Creating F\*ench
Qua- **Quaso**
Napkins included
Was watching Itchi the Killer, when a Mexican grandma got the wrong apartment. I've never forgotten to lock the doors again.
There’s also a bootstrap paradox. The hand that beckoned him into the Hypersphere in the first place in panel 3 is his own hand, emerging through the tear in space time in panel 8.
The "face" of God reminds me of the Alvin Schwartz scary stories to tell in the dark art style Fuckin creepy Just the way I like it. Lovely job OP
appreciate it!
Reminds me a lot of [this](https://youtu.be/BI9fKfX5V68?si=-Ska-AxEZMudKAVz) short horror video. Loved the comic.
Excellent work. This Christmas gift is much appreciated, OP. Hyperspacial existential horror! Hard to approach, hard to pull off with this much style and success.
appreciate it!
What a wonderful thing to see minutes before going to bed, I will surely have nightmares tonight. Unironically though, this looks beautiful!
hope this doesn't keep you awake. thank you though!
This is why you stay away from mega doses of psychedelics, folks.
I'm atheist, but the message I get from most religions is that if we are created in "His" image, then that means he is as hedonistic and hideous as we humans would be... I love the dark imagery. The call of the void and eternal darkness seem pretty fucking chill. "What has a beginning but no end?" Death.
To be fair, there’s a lot of debate about what “image” means. Some people simplify it like “oh, he’s got a head and a torso and two hands and two feet, and we were designed as lower reflections of this same sort of idea” while others say “well the way that we think and feel and are, he also does, on a base sort of level. Higher though he is, he has a sense of self and a sense of desire just like us”. That might not necessarily imply a god that is beholden to the same kind of ugliness that you describe, but it also doesn’t discount it, except for the notion that he is a “perfect” entity, but then we aren’t too sure what perfection actually truly looks like, are we? Fun thing to deconstruct
What's funny is you can describe and draw Christian, Jewish, and almost any other God however you like, but if you dare draw Allah or Muhammed you will be hunted down like a dog. Weird how "perfection" has been used to kill millions in Gods name 
Yeah yeah, religiously motivated wars are a thing, and Islamic practices of no image ever stand out like a sore thumb against some other Abrahamic practices, this is news to nobody, your point being? Besides, bringing up those millions killed is a hell of a tangent. Is that what you always and exclusively talk about when religion is on the menu? Are you of the opinion that if we had no religion then we wouldn’t be having any wars ever at all? Cuz that’s kinda how this is reading
that first bit def plays a role in this story. thanks for the compliment !
I love and kind of understand this in a way I can’t explain
In physics, you learn of the duality of some forms of "matter" such as light or the electron cloud. They can be (act within an environment in the manner of) either a wave (like microwaves or sound) or a particle (like sand). The thing that determines which of those two states the object will be in, is actually human measurement. But the very act of us looking at these subatomic particles, we force them to take a "shape" they never actually had in the first place. This is what I thought of when the man sees the god. By the improbable circumstance of a human actually being able to forcibly observe the being, it is forced into a form it never had, and is in agony for that. I loved the comic. It's very deep and I haven't figured out why yet. Thank you for creating it.
The "measurement" in physics is not a human or consciousness phenomenon, this was a badly chosen word. Any interaction between two particles collapses the wave. To measure, the instrument needs to affect the measured particle to get a feedback on what happens next, that happens regardless of conscience or human intention.
Yeah, but that doesn’t really take away from this notion of confronting god forcing him to take a horrible shape, as the poor lad breaks out of the hyper sphere for a moment and that act might be the same as one particle hitting another and forcing it to act a certain way.
Fantastic work, the best thing I have seen on this subreddit!
Can you talk about the inspiration and meaning behind this? Gives me a breakthrough vibe
i saw a video of what a 4d sphere would look like passing through our third dimension, and just sort of snowballed from there. I thought it would be interesting if a 4d sphere were a sort of entity that could transport you into a higher dimension where a creator/godlike figure exists. how the main character interprets finding a horrendous creator is up for interpretation i guess.
Got my follow. Want a whole series following his life now that he's seen the seeing
it would be a crazy project were i to worldbuild on this, but i would love to. appreciate it!
Imagine if he comes undone, and then is suddenly back to where he started, now wiser (crazier) by the experience. How do you explain the 4th dimension? How do you even begin describing it? How do you live now that you've experienced time itself and broke through the veil? How are you going to keep on going, confined to one moment in time and consciousness in one mortal form? What if that's what Hell is like, and you've been living in a denial dream of "reality". But now.... Now you see the whole truth, and not the spherical glimpse that used to beckon you. (This reminds me of Cult, a TTRPG and I love it)
This reminds me of Dark, I loved it!
Wow. This was intense. And the art is absolutely stunning.
thanks!
20/10
A bit dark and miserable for my taste but the art was extremely well done and the words were perfect for the scene. You have a real talent
This feels like a goddamn SCP I love it! Great work, I hope you have a Merry Christmas 👍
Reminds me of the Blut aus Nord album 'The Work Which Transforms God'. Fucking fantastic work OP, absolutely love it.
Hey random question OP, you wouldn't happen to listen to Sleep Token would you?
I hate it. Brilliant work.
i should've known this was gonna turn to horror. but man. those last 2 panels really filled me with the kind of fear i only get from genuine nightmares, and certain "visual cogito hazards" for lack of a better phrase. (i used to know the term but have since forgotten it. and no, i'm not referring to the Uncanny Valley. although that can fill me with the same sense of fear as well.).
you will pay for my therapy
That was absolutely magnificent and brilliant However, I'm tired as hell and did not expect it to become that hard to understand Thus, if someone was willing to help me there, I would gladly take the explanation, as it confused me along the way Thanks !
Makes sense that you were the person who made the Uncanny Valley comic ❤
yes :) thanks!
Is he screaming at the toilet?
The backgrounds on pages 4-6 reminds me of this game where a shiny sphere smashes glass geometrical pillars while traveling in a weird dimension https://apps.apple.com/us/app/smash-hit/id603527166?l I’m sure it has nothing to do, just tought for a moment this was gonna be like the Minecraft comics. Imagine horror based on Tetris or Pong. My brain is fried, love this artist’s comics. Also is it intentional or the face of God looks like those baby MRI meme pictures?
I used to LOVE smash hit. You just unlocked a core memory of when I used to play on my iPad 1. Those creepy MRI pics are exactly where I got that inspiration.
This reads like an official Clive barker adaptation. This is a compliment.
I have a bit of dissociative psychosis, and reading this (especially the part about always being born and always dying, always existing) is similar to how I feel during a bad episode! Cool to see it put into art.
Haha, the face of God was a legitimately disturbing thing to see. 10/10 comic. Please never stop.
There's a short horror film about the face of God, and this reminded me of it.
Oh the art is perfect for this, holy shit It's such a quick turn from intrigue to equal parts awe and horror This is fucking great!
thanks a lot ‼️
Refreshing. Excellent work. Powerful compositions and tricky values. Great vibe. Love it.
That was fuckin *wild* Edit: I’m reading through it a second time, is the >!story a loop?!< I don’t fully grasp the significance of this, but the implications are nuts. I feel like I’m so close to comprehension, but it’s juuuust out of reach.
Not gonna lie, I don't really get it, but the art was really good.
I just started reading again, decided to sink my teeth into the Lovecraft Collection I never finished. I go straight to A call to Cthulhu. I read a few pages, put it down for bed, scroll a little, and run into this almost immediately. I fucking love this. The art in the last 2 slides is exquisitely uncomfortable, especially within the context of what you wrote. Amazing. I'm checking out your page.
Really good Love the higher dimensional aspects. The hyoersohere entering the 3d plane as a growing/shrinking sphere. The 2d representation of a 3d person. The description of time as an observable dimension. Amazing
A lot of the images in the latter half look like those uncanny MRI images. Did you use that as inspiration, cause it looks terrifying and I love it.
Thought I’d run across a new Bad Space Comics - glad to find something new in the same vein.
I love this but it also freaks me out a bit. But I still love it.
Interesting
Great artstyle
Awful to read at 4:30 in the morning, but a really great story that gets you thinking. 10/10, I hated every second of it. Good job.
Epic, I really like this kind of Metaphysical Complex stuff, it’s very interesting, do you have more? https://preview.redd.it/y60k71vvit7c1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c43a874d7c88763ecf1aefceda38933b320c5b7
As God created man..so did man create God.
Merry Christmas everybody
... I wonder... Is he seeing himself, after going through something a mortal mind can't comprehend? Is the beckoning hand from the sphere his own hand in a continuum that no mortal could comprehend, and he's just reaching out to an image, thinking he's seen god, but all he found was himself from before. Speaking if mortals below, because he has become "god"?
As a huge Junji ito fan (no joke was about to get off reddit to read some more of his stuff and this stopped me) amazing work! Gave me chills at the end. Seeing the god you created for this comic frightened me! Great stuff!
Buddy what the actual fuck
This is *really* interesting. The hypersphere especially. Is it meant to be seen as similar to Satan/the snake in Eden?
God and Adam are one and the same by the end. A man cannot perceive a god and a god cannot perceive that perception. As God descends to mortality he ascends with the knowledge of his own conditionality. Adam ascends to the level of godhood by doing what no man can while he descends into his own absolution. Neither can comprehend it and are caught in the endless paradox as mirror images.
Can i also find these panels without text?
Were you high when you made this? Idk what kinda substance could cause someone to make such a masterpiece but there’s no way you made this fully sober
Meh.
Sense made, zero.
My vocabulary isn't vocabulated enough to understand this
Astaghfirullah
Neat.
It’s giving Twin Peaks Season 3 Episode 8 and I’m here for it.
If FlatLand was Cthonic.
I loved this. This was the kind of comics I used to read during the 90s. Metal Hurlant, Zona 84...
Nice writing AND illustration? Sick as hell, man.
Well done.
This reminds me of 2 separate instances of psychoactive substances. The god-heirogliphys who existed as a malevolent wall and the flesh-bag people who represented the skin-sack that we are. I'm not crazy, I just am trying to sum up the weird trip, lol. Good shit, man. This is my kind of weird.
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I got jumped scared at the last two pages. 10/10.
Fantastic!
Is there an opposite of thanks I hate it? No thank you I love it?
This is beyond incredible. You have an amazing mind.
Second time that orb has given me chills
Heck yeah, I don’t understand this, and I love it.
“Just one quick scroll before bed”
Some "the predestined" sci-fi mystic horror in that comic, very nice
This is amazing OP
Your stuff reminds me a lot of badpsacecomics on Instagram
Love the art style, keep it up!
Loved it . 5 stars
whoah holy shit this is amazing. (claps)
My last shroom trip lmao
Goddamn that was awesome.
this is metal as FUCK i love it
Yep, this is definitely showing up in my fever dreams tonight
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Well… y’know how in particle physics, there are some particles that act both as a particle and as a wave? But in order to measure the particle’s presence we need to knock another one into it, which kinda tends to lock it into one singular behavior after the fact? Think of this guy’s ripping a hole in the fabric of reality as being the same thing as doing that. God is “collapsed” from a three dimensional being interacting with four dimensional space in the only way it can, and so he too becomes 3D, but he was… unprepared for that, shall I say. Hence, the… thing… that he took shape as.
I like your funny words magic man!
Why does this sound strangely sexual?
You are the only person here who thought that
This feels like a darker and more disturbing depiction of A Squares introduction to the Sphere in Flatland.
This somewhat reminds me of interstellar when they go into the black hole
Very cool existential horror. The kinda shit that makes me stay awake at night. Though didn't understand much, probably for the best :p
Amazing. Gripping ending
This comic is so SO good, it’s just hard to figure out the point of view for the last few panels. To me it feels sort of like the gate guardian. That the tendril hair entity is his equal from a different plain of existence. And so the last few panels is how they see each other?
The copy reminded me somewhat of Meshuggah lyrics! Captivating comic… Loved it! Thanks for posting.
Incomprehensible I've met with a terrible fate 👍
Last panel will give me nightmares for tonight
Yo that was good. Very impressive job! My eyes were glued to the screen from the very first page!
At first I wasn't sure if this was an actual "serious" comic or if the last panel was going to reveal the god to be a dickbutt or something. Kind of glad it stuck to it's guns as a horrible, terrible, awesome thing.
This is amazing! I was so hooked from the first panel
Didn't think I would feel seen, intrigued and moritifed at 3:40 in the morning from a comic on reddit, but I'm not complaining. Very nice art style and interesting story.
It's fantastic. I hate you. Show me more you bastard.
That's was , Damn, awesome in Philosophy, Language, Visualisation & a creative mind to end
Awesome
I love the way you draw extradimensional spaces its so good.
Disturbing, captivating and a brilliant premise is my opinion.
So the main message is there is no real logic and meaning in good and evil and life at all so trying to search for some kind of meaning beyond what us mortals can see is pointless because there is no point, it's just a bunch of chemical reactions and luck ?
That Orb and meeting this god entity type thing reminds me of Gantz
This really eerily reminds me of nighterrors I used to have as a kid but could never explain or even remember properly... wtf
very reminiscent of scott base's bad space comics, good job!
Thanks for the nightmare fuel, my dude! Love the illustrations and storytelling, you’re extremely talented.
Damn, this was deep. I kind of hate how much I relate to it, the intrusive thoughts parallel very well with the orb thing.
Somebody has read Kafka
Damn, need to get me one of those hyperspheres
I got fucking chills when reading this. I don't know if it is because how similar the psychological aspects are to the story that I am writing myself, or simply, inherently, horrifying. Brilliantly done. Hope to see more.
reminds me of junji ito a little bit i love this!
This was cool. I don’t get it but I enjoyed it. 👍