The Pedestrian
Every so often when reading comic books you encounter something weird. This is no surprise as COMICS! ARE! WEIRD! is a whole thing in the medium, but you get different kinds of weird. In this case, this book feels like salt: sodium and chlorine are both quite deadly to humans, and mixing them together produces a nice little food addition that makes your food taste better.
The Pedestrian is about a guy in a skintight suit going around a small town and helping people with problems, from helping someone parallel park to preventing a mugging to fighting off an eldritch abomination that seeks to control the residents of this town by mind control, wearing the symbol of the red hand to prevent anyone from crossing him.
Yeah.
But for all the story has a strange setup it's grounded. The supernatural elements aren't clearly defined (and fuck me if I know what any of it meant!) so we rely more on the characters' ruminations that should relay the themes to get an idea. Me, I see a lot focused on "the little evils", small problems that people can fix if they only step in for a few minutes and help.
To me, the Pedestrian represents the little rules and laws that keep society ticking: cross here, stop at red, slow down at this turn, proceed with caution, these are things we've agreed to do as a sign of respect to one another. And it's when those little laws and agreements are threatened that things can spiral out of control.
I've never read anything quite like The Pedestrian. For the sake of uniqueness alone I think you should give it a read.
