Meta4 #1

Ted McKeever's Meta4 arrives with one of the more striking covers of 2010 — a solitary astronaut rendered in loose, expressive ink looms over a repurposed wholesale cash-memo receipt, the handwritten figures and bureaucratic form bleeding through the image in unsettling layers of red and grey. It's a quietly disorienting collision of the cosmic and the mundane, entirely McKeever's own — he handles writing, art, inking, and lettering throughout. Billed as a five-issue allegorical series in black and white, this first chapter, "Inverted Memories of Grey," promises the kind of deeply personal, surrealist storytelling that makes McKeever's work so persistently compelling.