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- 15 Dec, 2025 *
A while ago, I bought A Garden of Spheres, a new fantasy comic by Linnea Sterte, published by Peow Studios. I finally had a chance to read it today and I liked it a lot!!
I enjoy weird spacey sci fi/fantasy comics about worlds where enigmatic figures wander around and fight gigantic blobby monsters. I got this way because I read too much Moebius in college... now I am easily lured in by any comic that seems to captu…
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- 15 Dec, 2025 *
A while ago, I bought A Garden of Spheres, a new fantasy comic by Linnea Sterte, published by Peow Studios. I finally had a chance to read it today and I liked it a lot!!
I enjoy weird spacey sci fi/fantasy comics about worlds where enigmatic figures wander around and fight gigantic blobby monsters. I got this way because I read too much Moebius in college... now I am easily lured in by any comic that seems to capture this vibe.
A Garden of Spheres accomplished that for me very well. It focuses on a small number of immortal "gods" or demigods who live and age slowly in a world where gods, plants, and animals occasionally hatch out of strange spherical eggs. The main character, a nameless woman who seems to be godly - but lacks the gods’ power of creation - wanders around this world gradually trying to figure out who she is and why she exists. It becomes clear fairly early on in the story that she may be a kind of destruction deity, unable to fulfil the motherly/fatherly/leaderly role in society that most of the other gods she meets are glad to perform.
The book is gorgeous, full of huge graceful animals that are constantly eating guys or flying and slithering around. There are both black and white and color sections, and the colors are phenomenal. The main character is an out-of-time enigma unique chiefly for how normie she is. It deals with the passage of time from the perspective of immortals in an almost disinterested way - I expected that I would be reading a story about how immortals feel melancholy to see the world passing them by, but it’s really more about how immortality has left its characters feeling absently serene and detached from the world around them.
It is alien and weird in a very careful, withholding way, which made it a lot of fun for me. I highly recommend it!! I’ll be eagerly awaiting the second book!