Want to see a man disintegrating into tiny little cubes?

[mrosa]

A fellow s_d member showed curiosity about a page I posted from François & Luc Schuiten's Carapaces, so I decided to post a few more pages from that album.



First of all, the cover:



(Hey, it's a French comic book, what did you expect? Capes?)

This is from the same short-story I posted before, and it has a really great sequence about a man literally falling apart:







And this is from another short-story:



This is set in a dystopian future and it's about a couple walking through a dead landscape, protected by those robot-looking armors. But one of them decides to take it off and that's a mistake, even if the sex is awesome:







(Ha ha, how ironic...)

Warning: contains some nudity and sex.

Comments

[namey]

I forget which scifi/horror movie it was (Cube maybe?) that had a scene where escalating lasers flying by were trying to kill the group. Surprise first one chopped off a head, second one went low but adjusted when someone tried to jump... eventually all but one get out of the room when the lasers just form a grid and Julienne the unlucky fellow standing. Camera pans away just as he, well, starts looking like the above.

[mrosa]

I'm sure it was the Cube, but Resident Evil also ripped off that scene.

This album, though, was made almost twenty years before Cube.

[namey]

Yeah, not saying one's a rip-off of the other or anything; it was just the first useless anecdote that came to mind when I saw that. ^_^

ZOMG! WHAT DID I JUST SAW?!?

[chocochuy]

I am speechless before all these stories but I must agree that irony on the story of the armored couple was quite powerful.

[illian]

The title made me think of the season finale episode of Farscape: http://youtu.be/AAZxGIkTkMY?t=4m35s

[biod]

Remember kids, listen to Big Brother or you'll get eaten by bugs!

[houbanaut]

If you like this, you might be interested to know that Carapaces is available in English collected along with two other albums by Schuiten as The Hollow Grounds, from DC/Humanoids.

[whitesycamore]

OH NON!

Really amuses me for some reason.