Opus

I am a huge fan of Satoshi Kon's animation, (as everyone should be) so I was very interested to see his comics work. Opus is not quite his opus. I'd give that title to Paprika or Tokyo Godfathers. (I haven't seen Millennium Actress or Perfect Blue yet.) Opus is a wonderful work of metafiction that uses themes similar to his other works. Kon is a master at manipulating space and time within the camera frame, and it's a blast watching him play around with comic book panels. Resonance is the fictional story within the fictional Opus, and it is the perfect battlefield for Kon's abilities. The author of Resonance gets sucked into his own story, and is forced to confront his own plot holes, has his hastily drawn buildings collapse on top of him, and fights his villain on both sides of the fourth wall. The book was sadly cancelled halfway through, but this collected edition features a bonus chapter where Kon confronts his fictional author and they compare their problems of being unable to end their stories. Kon puts the book on hold and promises to give the main character the ending she deserves, but sadly this cannot happen due to his passing in 2010.