Moonflow and The whole lot Useless & Dying

I’m so glad the shockingly brilliant, fuzzy-blacklight-poster-style cowl of this guide grabbed my consideration whereas I used to be doing work at an area cafe/bookstore the opposite day, as a result of I in any other case won’t have heard about Moonflow, and what a visit it turned out to be. Simply certainly one of my favourite reads this 12 months.

Moonflow is, as writer Bitter Karella described it in a latest interview, “Psychedelic trans cosmic fungal splatterpunk.” It follows Sarah, a trans girl who grows and sells trippy mushrooms, on a determined seek for a mushroom often known as the King’s Breakfast. It is the kind of tour that appears doomed from the beginning, because the King’s Breakfast is simply present in a forest finest identified for being a spot individuals don’t return from, and predictably, issues begin going off the rails virtually instantly. The forest is haunted and seemingly in a continuing state of change, there is a TERFy lesbian off-grid cult that is engaged in some deeply weird actions and poor Sarah is… simply doing her finest (she is painfully relatable). 

This guide horrified me, made me chortle and made me gag, typically suddenly. It is queer as hell, impressively creepy, filled with extraordinarily on-the-nose satire and a fully wild journey throughout.