In keeping with the silent movie motif, Ott uses black, white and grays, enveloping his realistically drawn characters and settings in an expressionistic mood. A man enters a hotel but cannot leave a masked wrestler battles Death a patient finds a grotesque cure for his failing vision a homeless man discovers signs of approaching Apocalypse. Each film recounts a macabre tale which overturns the laws of reality, leading to a twist ending reminiscent of The Twilight Zone. In the framing sequences, a morose little girl wanders through an old-fashioned amusement park and finds herself alone in the ""Cinema Panopticon,"" which holds coin-operated machines showing silent films. Appropriately, Ott uses the early silent cinema as a motif. Swiss cartoonist Ott employs neither dialogue nor captions in his stories words appear rarely, usually as chapter titles or signs in the background. Comics are popularly defined as a combination of words and pictures, but words are no more necessary to the comics than sound is to cinema.
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