Free-floating, wizzard-ish heads open this hilarious comic book with a circuitous discussion of the meaning of Time. Equally weighty topics concern the animals that populate the rest of the book. For example in "Chapter One: The Animals Speak Amongst Themselves," the bird asks, "Are numbers real?" and The Wise Dog answers, "They are useful but they are not real." Two giant creatures sitting cross-legged like two animate mountains in the sun ask each other, "Is there such a thing as too open minded?" "Too open minded for what?" Kevin Hooyman's intricate drawings of animals, people, plants and hybrid creatures come alive in his dense imaginary landscapes and in the abstract space of the page. Preternaturally curious (and articulate), everyone and everything contributes to the existential conversations swirling through the book in multi-layered word balloons." - printed matter