With nine to ten pages of actual content (the count depends on what constitutes content), Roger Langridge doesn’t have a lot of time in the first issue of The Fez. The cover, with its booming title design, vaguely reminds of The Spirit and the first page does have a recap of the Fez’s villains. They’re very funny villains.
None of them appear in the rest of the issue. The first story has the Fez haunting a thief–three glorious pages. Langridge turns nine very short lines of narration into a very amusing little story. The Fez, you see, is an invisible person wearing a fez, hence the title.
The bigger story involves the Fez doing experiments–to regain his visibility I assumed but Langridge doesn’t address it–and having a hallucinogenic journey.
The comic’s an art tour de force, but Langridge is so good at precise narrative, it’s sublime too.
CREDITS
Writer, artist and letterer, Roger Langridge; publisher, Hotel Fred Press.
Available online at
http://www.comixology.com/The-Fez-1/digital-comic/SUB002100