
We’re thrown in and left to figure out what the heck is going on. Neither offers much in the way of exposition. Both works also fall on the dreamy side, the Stanley Kubrick school of sci-fi rather than the hard-edged Ridley Scott approach-more concerned with the way human relationships are affected by interstellar contact than with the nuts and bolts of new technology.

Both The Interview and Denis Villeneuve’s intellectual sci-fi film focus on contact with extraterrestrials, whose ships appear mysteriously and whose methods of communication differ considerably from those of humanity.

Manuele Fior’s second book in as many years from publisher Fantagraphics provokes interesting comparisons, not only to previous graphic novel, 5,000 km Per Second, but also with last year’s arty sci-fi film Arrival.
