Black Rat Graphic Novel

(W/A/CA) Cole Closser. This aesthetically varied collection of nine graphic short stories is loosely linked by the recurring appearance of a black rat. Black Rat is the sleeper in the shadow, the wanderer in the woods. He walks between worlds and travels through time slaying monsters, solving mysteries, and philosophizing with his fists amidst a barrage of butchered quotes and borrowed styles in a series of seemingly disparate, sometimes violently visceral vignettes.