Aldo has been twenty-eight for three hundred years. Despite his long life, he still hasn't developed very good social skills. His whole family has been dead now for a long while, and nobody believes he is immortal. As a result, he leads a lonely existence. He is afraid to love anything or anyone, except for his beautiful Alfa Romeo and his little pug Gustav. When he tries to seek professional help, there too the truth seems too absurd for words. But then he spots someone on television and recognizes him from an encounter two hundred years ago. And he decides to visit the man to get some answers.
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Aldo is a 200 year old immortal who has done absolutely nothing with his life, and found the need to attempt a confession to a psychiatrist. As the story languidly unfurls, Aldo spots a man on TV that he knew from the 18th Century and sets off to find him.
This is a case of a graphic novel setting out to be different, and succeeds. The writing was wonderful. The artwork is a huge part of the storytelling and the story came with a twist in the last pages. I'm shook, y'all. This is the best thing I've read this week.
ARC courtesy of NetGalley.
