YOU KNOW IT'S BLACK by Gianluca Cameron
127 x 196mm, 338 pages, Black & white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2025
A young mouse-woman named Eris in a variation of Earth where demi-humans (anthropomorphic animals) amuses herself with odd jobs such as foiling anarcho-primitivist terrorist attacks and immersing young men in fetishistic simulations. After a sexual encounter with Vincent Gallo in which gravity is suspended, she meets a pushy bear-man and is fated to have sex with him – on top of that, she journeys back through Hell to get home from his place. There, she meets the serial killer whom she is a fursona of but she also created him by putting hypnotic suggestions inside a self-help book that turns people into murderers. She has a somewhat romantic relationship with her mole-man chauffeur named Beaufort which blossoms into a marriage. The world is announced to be ending soon after. Much confusion and angst ensues. Beaufort questions his gender, gets ill-advisedly taken to a party filled with amoral political influencers in drag and then abruptly dies of a heart attack while Eris is apologising. There is an anarchist off-shoot of society where the demi-humans have left and there may or may not be prejudice against the humans in there. The police have left the world and are colonising other planets in order to replicate the human consciousness and way of life. A misogynistic transgender man is allowed to be part of this space force but after the end of earth, he is found out and is condemned to be a statue in a children’s museum.
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