Artist/storyteller Larry (Tales of the Broken B/Space Cat) Johnson's Horseman #8 is an aboriginal triumph that sets the titular entity on his strangest treks yet.
In "The Weavers," Horseman soars from a Lynch-ian factory, into the company of a female mummy (i.e. a mysterious, spooled lady), who guides him to a fascinating spectrum where Native American-styled variants of himself engage in artistic pleasure.
The natives' creative devotion then catapults our hero into yet another spiritual sphere, this one featuring a fanciful shaman, a lady arachnid and a humungous eagle. To say the least, the transformative spree goes far beyond any that one might find among ho-hum, pedestrian procedures.
As a bonus to the main feature, Johnson includes "Hopper-long Horseman," which pays homage to artist Edward Hopper. The adventure's images flow from a Nighthawks niche and tumble into additional avenues of moody isolation, which should delight all fans of the humble visionary.
As with Johnson's other Horseman issues, #8 more than delivers the goods for sheer surrealism. It can be purchased for the reasonable price of $7, which one can submit through Paypal at LewBrown1@verizon.net.
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