Fine, fine, it’s not a standard superhero comic, but Crossing Midnight is a prime example of what I’ve been loving about comics lately: crazy storylines, conceptually riveting art, and occasionally brilliant dialogue. Hardly lowbrow at all, in fact. Here’s a brief exchange from the current issue, Crossing Midnight #18:

– You seem troubled, Master Hara. Are you having second thoughts about our strategy?
– No. But I’m no fighter, Lord Rinkin. I don’t know if I can do any of this.
– Do you know the origami sculpture called the Dragon?
– No.
– It is extremely intricate. And in making it you must pass through many intermediate forms. Some of these transitional stages are very beautiful. They look like end points in their own right. The seated man. The rose. The open hand. I apologize for the labored analogy. But life folds each of us into many curious shapes before we finally become what we are meant to be.