Thursday, January 12, 2012

Max Ernst




To be completely honest, I have no idea what's going on in the first panel. It looks like the woman is doing some kind of dance, or striking a strange pose in front of a rooster. I don't really know what to take from that, but perhaps she's performing some kind of spell.
The second panel shows an anthropomorphic rooster-man, looking over what appears to be a woman's recently deceased body. I still have no idea what's going on. The rooster-man hybrid DOES however give me an uneasy feeling.
The third panel appears to be a kind of ceremony. Maybe a funeral, or a sacrifice. Two chicken men, and a woman stand around a pit where a woman in a casket lies. There appears to be a wooden lid for the pit in the bottom left corner, so the chicken-men must be burying her.
The sacrifice continues on into panel 4. There is a person sprawled out on a plank, with what appears to have a skull and crossbones on it. The story is a switch up of the rolls. Humans kill chickens daily, but when reversed, it seems much more gruesome.

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