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[📓] COMPLETE: EXTRAVAGANT TRAVELER

Jeremy Baum is one of the single most unique writer/artist combinations working in comics today. If you can find them, pick up EVERY story he has contributed to.

A small review from THE COMICS JOURNAL by Rob Clough:
Extravagant Traveler is one of Baum's first long-form stories, and it's from 2012. Time distortion becomes a significant part of his narrative toolbox in this story, as it jumps back and forth in telling the story of Hans, a young boy who is abducted by aliens as part of an effort to save their race as well as humanity by mating with a female. Unlike the narrative in most stories of this kind, however, the abduction is not traumatic. Instead, it saves the life of a boy growing up in an abusive household, surrounded by bullies.
There's a great sequence where young Hans is walking and reliving the names and provocations used on him, intellectualizing why they are so effective before snapping back to the actual, hateful words.
Then he encounters the typical Baum female character (nude, big eyes, big teeth, but with an open third eye on her forehead and runes tattooed on her body), and we jump back and forth in time. The end of the story features the end of the encounter, when he's dumped back on earth with a full memory of all that has happened.
It's transformative for him, but it also fills him with incredible longing, a longing that does not cease when we jump forward in time. It's hinted that it only increases when he senses his own progeny traveling through space, paying him an oblique visit.

This is a beautiful, strange story that's cleverly sequenced in terms of its visuals, one that demonstrates Baum's potential as a storyteller.

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