In the wake of a national conspiracy, a hard-boiled detective finds himself on the wrong end of a summary execution. The killer: himself,firing two suicidal shots to the head for his revealed crimes against society. However, as the bullets tear through his synapses, somethingstrange happens. Snapping into overdrive, his brain refuses to give up without a fight, throwing him into an intense psychological odysseyof survival.Taking place entirely in this one decisive moment, No Man's Land invites the reader to witness the inner workings of a psyche hoveringbetween life and death. With its unnamed hero's subconscious desperately refusing to accept the inevitable, it frantically assembles evermorebizarre and terrifying scenarios for him to play out. Taking inspiration from the conventions of popular literature, reality and fictionblur together, creating a genre-spanning epic in which survival instinct is both jailer and escape route.A sequel to 2010's Dog Crime, Blexbolex picks up immediately from where the events of his mind-bending dystopian homage to detectivenoir left off. Once again taking inspiration from classic American pulp fiction, he draws upon his love of the classic horror, fantasy, andsci-fi magazines of the 1930s and 40s. Reinterpreting the themes and symbols of those imaginary worlds, he thoughtfully explores genre,along with our own reliance on fiction asking the question of why, we as readers are so attracted the fantastic.Intelligent, experimental and full of wit, No Man's Land satirises the mind's ability to seduce itself mercilessly hurtling its hero around animplausible dreamland designed to mask the processes of mortality. Featuring the idiosyncratic art and rhythmic narrative style that havebecome the writer/artist's trademarks, this book continues Blexbolex's reputation of redefining the potentials and pleasures of the illustratedstory format.