A few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords results in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy. But what happened on Earth that this new world order came to pass in the first place? Return to the grim corridors of Auxiliary Compliance Outpost #2, to uncover the first clues to the history of the world as we know it... and meet PRESIDENT BITCH.
Taki Soma’s life has taken unexpected turns on top of twists over the years, a journey that starts in Japan in the early 1980s and spins through traumatic family loss, a childhood murder, drugs, comics, medical mysteries, true love, fertility, pets, and zombies. All of that and more is depicted here in a series of brilliant, deceptively simple short comics chronicling one young artist’s blazing bright milestones of life, the ones we don’t always celebrate but still return to again and again in our dreams. A compelling authorial voice with sly wit and an accomplished cartoonist’s eye for visual play, meaningful details, and imaginative interludes, Soma gently guides us through a collection of tales built on emotional themes rather than chronology that jump back and forth across the decades, for a bracingly effective and inspiring memoir. Sleeping While Standing is an unflinching look at harrowing moments in the life of a highly regarded creator, threaded through with levity and love.
"Creative virtuoso Oeming is flexing more of his imagination muscles here as the monsters Jess and her father encounter are all completely unique and captivating." - Bloody Disgusting "Resembling Ghostbusters meets They Live, Sinergy is a blast of a ride that shows the main objective of comics is to have fun and escape the world we live in for one we can only imagine." - Coming Up Comics The day Jess lost her virginity, she found insight into another world right beside our own. She can now see the inter-dimensional monsters living among us, feeding on our sins. Her father is a 'seer' like her, and together they will save the world, one monster at a time...while trying to keep their family together. Collects issues 1-5 of the limited-series by the co-creator of POWERS.