The Truck Driver is a shape of body language that shows an increasing regret for this act of charity. Aleph is completely masked by their hoodie. Artist Jen Hickman denies the reader any sort of clear picture of either participant. Letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou employs overlapping word balloons that are just a bit too big as they try to contain Alephs often rambling sentences.
The conversation, such as it is, is an awkward one and everything around it compounds that feeling. Judging by the list Aleph would be the winner in a game of To the Pain. You get a good idea of Aleph’s perspective with the first line of the series “What’s the thing you hate most about yourself?” It’s quiet the ice breaker, but one that opens up Aleph to begin listing off all the things they don’t care for. While the reader gets a better understanding of their character, or perhaps lack of, by the end of “Test” #1, Sebela and the rest of the creative team give readers all they need to know about Aleph within the first two pages. Writer Christopher Sebela employs various devices, like a running diary as internal monologue, to characterize Aleph Null as they search for the mysterious Laurelwood. From Eisner-nominated Chris Sebela (Crowded, High Crimes) and Jen Hickman (Moth & Whisper) comes the story of a town out of time, full of mysteries, and populated by guinea pigs in need of liberation by the misfit least likely to be their savior.
But now, Aleph is on the run from their old life, in search of a mythical, Midwestern town named Laurelwood-where they’re test-marketing the future with tech that can’t possibly exist yet, and won’t for decades.
Aleph Null is a lot of things: An orphan, a human guinea pig undergoing medical tests for cash, a bodyhacker, a hardcore future junkie, and a corporate asset.
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