Our Love Is Real is a stand-alone 24 page comic book, an off-kilter, blackly humorous tale about a sex-obsessed dystopian future society and the people who live (and love) there. The world is a shambles, and political factions are categorized by sexual preference (animal/vegetable/mineral). Armored cops maintain the peace with extreme aggression, breaking protesters’ skulls and busting up demonstrations… And then one officer meets a stranger from the other side of the tracks, and begins to secretly question his way of life.
Author Sam Humphries creates a bizarre hybrid of Romeo And Juliet and Orwell’s 1984 (with dollops of technologic perversion thrown in), and Steven Sanders’ clean lines lend a strange beauty to the proceedings, violent and twisted though they be. It’s gleeful grindhouse sci-fi: outrageous, over-the-top, and highly recommended for the not-easily-offended. Find a comic shop, hand over $4.00, check your delicate sensibilities at the door, and enjoy the ride.
Our Love Is Real was originally made available this summer in a limited self-published edition; it’s released today in a new printing from Image Comics. It can be purchased online from Forbidden Planet, or in person at all good comic shops.
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