the bus 3 (English Edition)

Since the dawn of time, humanity has searched tirelessly for this, the perfect vehicle. Driving world history and embodying all our aspirations, it is the answer to all metaphysical questions, the alpha and omega of the human condition, the vessel of our destiny. The bus is back!

Paul Kirchner revives his famous coach, in all its mesmerizing variations, to extend the bus series, the comic strip he started in 1979 in the pages of the American comics magazine Heavy Metal and continued in 2015 with the bus 2.

Each panel is an adventure that takes the commuter – a bald and bespectacled fellow – to an unpredictable destination. His body is thrown from one setting to another, cut to pieces, swallowed, or literally unknitted, constantly on the verge of vanishing and enduring all kinds of metamorphoses.

Meanwhile, the bus is successively turned into a balloon, a trash compacter, and a movie theater that shows the same film over and over, thus becoming both the creator and the scene of a great conspiracy.

Kirchner pushes absurdity ever further and gives unexpected conclusions to the most common situations. At the same time, the reader gets carried away by this art of illusion, in which shadows and reflections come to life as in a surrealist painting.