From the moment you open the issue, Universal Monsters: The Phantom of the Opera #1 makes one thing immediately clear: this is not a comic interested in familiar rhythms. It asks to be read slowly, to be revisited, to be experienced through composition and page turns as much as plot. It is deliberate, formally ambitious, and closer in spirit to a curated gallery exhibition than a conventional monthly

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"Darick Robertson’s depraved art continues to visually expound upon the raunchy debauchery of the world of Space Bastards."

"This is one of the most perfectly done first issues I have ever read..."