Alex, our hero, occupies the black, white, and tans of his world, unassuming, living today in order to move on to tomorrow. To the outside world, there isn’t anything special about Alex, who is a lowly fact checker at a magazine. His boss hates him, his girlfriend doesn’t understand him, and no one will help him mourn his recently-deceased grandfather, who spends his last days in a nursing home full of terrible orderlies. No one cares about the mysterious young woman in the picture he finds among his granddad’s belongings. But as soon as he starts searching for the answers behind his grandfather’s death, trying to make the connections, things get weird. Sin Titulois an anti-mystery, more interested in showing you each piece and letting you figure out its shape, its order, and if it should fit with the other pieces at all. The very Lynchian beaches and boogeymen of this story set in stone the main mind****ing rule in the narrative thread: the things that Alex perceives to be real might not be real at all. It’s a cool trick. You spend so much time in Alex’s head that you can’t really question his narrative authority. We hear one voice in our heads and we have no other choice but to follow it. His personal history is revealed throughout the main yarn. We witness his failed relationship with his father and less-than-stellar love life. Slowly, we watch Alex transform as a person as he comes to terms with his past and tries to connect it to his present. But in the end, is there a reason behind the lives we have lived? A final answer? That’s the scariest part of the story in the end—that life can be so incredibly disjointed and that we’re the ones wrapping our own realities around it. Sin Titulo Story & Art: Cameron Stewart Den of Geek Rating: 5 Out of 5 Stars
