Many of us have problems dealing with the real world so some of us creating fantasy worlds using drugs.
But you’ve never tripped quite like this before.
“Neverboy,” by Shaun Simon with art by Tyler Jenkins is about an extreme case of this that tries to make you high but only gives you a low.
The plot of the comic is a little hard to explain. The comic is about a guy whose only name we get is Neverboy who has problems at home and he is always taking meds. One day his wife throws away the only pill he has left and now he’s being chased by some imagination police.
It seems like what the story is saying is that Neverboy lives in a world that does not exist and he takes meds to stay in the world. It can be taken as a satire of real life drug users who refuse to leave the world they visit when they’re high. It sounds like a great concept, but the comic does only an OK job at doing it.
We do see what the world he wants looks like and what the real world looks like. The only problem is it’s not done very well and the fake/real world transition is done so lazily that it confuses the reader.
The art has some nifty techniques and some not so hot. The real world looks like a 1960s Jimi Hendrix video with loads of groovy colors and other things that look like a really good high. On the other hand the character designs look like a cheap Disney knockoff only with humans. They look very thin, stringy and very little like what humans look like. Aesthetically this does work in that this is what Neverboy thinks the real world looks like, but it’s not that appealing.
“Neverboy†has a great drug trip concept that is poorly executed and average art. The upcoming issues may be better written but for now this isn’t all that great.
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