It’s a tiny tower in the desert. He’s going to try to get into it. It's not going to be easy. He's gonna be wearing the thing if he manages to make it in at all. It would be really closing for most people. For him is just kind of uncomfortable. He is, after all, the size of a small kaiju. Things continue to be rather difficult for him in Ultramega #8. Writer/artist James Harren continues a trippy visual dream that feels like a mutated nightmare. Color comes to the page courtesy of Dave Stewart. 

When he gets inside, there’s a little, purple bearded guy who’s asking him why he’s so tall. It’s a good question, but it’s a long story. (This IS the eighth issue after all.) There's a temple involved. Some mystery hidden in with it. While that's going on there's a ridiculously large battle going on elsewhere. Large armies with large people larger weapons are attacking each other. Ultra is going to have a headache, but he’s going to be dealing with even more when he’s told about the battle ladder of. thousand planets, which just SOUNDS impossibly exhausting on far too many levels to count.

The script and pacing are weirdly cool. Harren doesn't impressive job with making it all fit onto the page. The action lends forward into strange moments of friction and tension that are accompanied by some pretty interesting poetry. Dialog ends up being weirdly with forms that attempt to tangle with infinity in weird ways. It's actually a lot of fun even if it doesn't seem to be making a whole a lot of sense. It just feels like there is so much going on that might not necessarily be hitting the panel anytime soon. There's quite a bit in and around the edges of everything that feels just so totally awesome in the truest sense of the word. It's all just so very, very big on so many levels. And the script does that in a conceptual way.

And the art does that in a very visual way. The immensity of it all. It's hard to fit large creatures onto the page, and it really gives a full embrace to how big everything is supposed to be. Harren does a really good job of showing different sizes on the page to really amplify the field of just how big everything is. It's not an easy thing to put this kind of epic power in any kind of visual that's really going to do. Harren is actually doing a very good job of balancing perspectives.

One level is very, very silly. On another level, it feels like it's every bit intense. It needs to feel in order to be truly cosmic in a way, but a few comic books are capable of achieving. So it feels really impressive to see what they're doing here and it feels really impressive to see how it all fits together on the page.

Grade: A