This book is doing everything right so far. It successfully balances adventure, interesting sci-fi and meaningful human drama (with a dash of horror) all while telling the story in three distinct time periods with no confusion. The art is beautiful, understated and clear. The story picked up quite a bit from the first volume and the last page made me wish I had the third in my hands right now.

Wowow Ona(ji) continues to amaze! This is the Aama book where I got properly hooked. Peeters' style reminding me of Jesse Jacob is a big help, but so too is his nuanced, thoughtful reinvention of a tired classic narrative: man loses child, goes on big quest to get her back. There's Churchill, the coolest advanced robot who just happens to smoke cigars and look like an ape; there's an expanding and shrinking cast of intriguing side characters; there's a whole world of strange, hybrid a/humanity t...

A much better written volume that eases the reader into the world of Aama while maintaining the sense of mystery. The book also explores Verloc’s character and colours him out. He is a more relatable hero after learning his back story but still lacks any agency. Churchill continues to be cool and bails the group out of any trouble that finds them. The plot is still moving slowly but the themes of the story are starting to become clearer and the world building is excellent.

Wait, wait, wait...*this* won Best Series, Angoulême International Comics Festival 2013? Oooookay, then.

In The Invisible Throng, the second volume in Frederik Peeters’ excellent sci fi opus aama, reluctant adventurer Verloc Nim and his high-flying brother Conrad (accompanied as ever by Churchill, a cigar loving robotic ape) have finally made contact with the lost scientific outpost on the desert planet of Ona(ji). Verloc gets to know the scientists – sowing strife as he does so – and begins to learn the truth about the aama project, before a breakaway group set off to explore the real (or should t...

This was a pretty decent follow-up to the first book in this series. Where the first book was pretty much world building and info dumping, THE INVISIBLE THRONG really expanded on Peeters world.We see Verloc and the others begin to explore Ona(ji) and all its desolation. Until it’s not. Until its vibrant and alive with extremely strange plant life and creatures. This planet can send it’s thanks to AAMA, which we also find out a lot more about.It’s a substance that can rewrite itself into creature...

This is getting better, as I suspected it might. Recommended for sci fi folks, for sure. We have a pretty unlikeable main character, Verloc Nim, who is an addict, amnesiac, separated from his kid whose mother has left him… He loses his job, but he and his cigar-smoking sidekick robot-gorilla (I know!) meet up with his estranged brother who takes him to another planet with a group of people to explore a robotic substance, aama. What we like about Verloc is his resistance to technology and its ass...

I confess that, at first glance, I misread the subtitle as "The Invisible THONG," which suggests an entirely different sort of European graphic album. Having been introduced to the characters and the world in Volume 1, we now follow our heroes as they explore said world. And it ends on rather a cliffhanger, though since the story is being told through flashbacks as Verloc Nim reads through his journal attempting to regain his missing memories, we know that at least he and Churchill survive. Peet...

OBLIGATORY COMMENT ABOUT SEXISM IN COMICS, COME ON GODDAMNIT, THIS WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE EARLY 2010S. GET WITH THE TIMES. However, that's tempered a bit by the fact that the women in this comic do have their own minds, even if they're (mostly) there for the sake of the men around them. This one was filled with fantastic creatures, and it ended on a gory cliffhanger - I loved it. I can't wait for the next volume, even though I docked one star for, well, see the above. The art continues

Mannnnn, what a messed-up and disgusting way to finish up this volume, haha. But I liked volume two even more than I liked one! We finally hear Verloc's story about Silika and Lilja, and the storyline between the past and the present is becoming gradually more clear...A great series!

The Invisible Throng is the second volume of the four-part “aama” series by Peeters (The Smell of Warm Dust). Verloc Nim travels to a strange planet with his brother Conrad in search of Aama, a nanotechnology experiment intended to kick-start life on the primeval world. Led by a robotic ape named Churchill, the brothers, scientists consigned to the planet, and a peculiar girl make their way across a rapidly evolving and increasingly deadly landscape. The greatest struggles, however, are characte...

Mindblowing!Imagine brilliant sci-fi concepts, realistic likable and un-likable characters, strong emotional content, mystery, gorgeous GORGEOUS artwork, did we mention brilliant sci-fi concepts?Did we mention gorgeous GORGEOUS artwork already too?This is amazing! Highly recommended!

this volume felt shorter than the last one because it covers 3 stories: present day story when verloc is with churchill, story of verloc's diary covering adventure on planet that he forgot, and story of verloc's relationship with silika, which he is telling to myo in the diary flashback. phew.lots of things happen fast! lots of slightly unsettling organic alien landscapes.

Like the first volume, I am just left with more questions. This volume contained more backstory, some minor character development, and a whole lot of world exploration. Even after the second volume, the characters are only just beginning to understand Aama and it's capabilities. There is some stunning and imaginative creature design in this book. I plan to continue this series.

In the second volume of Peeters aama series the surreal is even more prominent than in the first. Almost the entire book is flashbacks, only a few panels take place in "real time". The main protagonist has gone through extraordinary events in the last few days but his real trauma seems to be the loss of contact with his daugther. The story mix fantastic elements with human existential problems. It is still not clear where Peeters is going with this story but he is definetly on to something inter...

Peeters renders the artwork spectacularly with imaginary landscapes that would impress Dr. Suess. Aama shows us a dystopian future through a non-typical viewpoint. The evolution gone amuck biomechanical environment is intriguing and attention grabbing. Well defined characters with typical flawed human aspects along with well defined sci-fi mystery elements make me ponder, 50% into the series, that this might end up as one of my favorite reads. If the landing is stuck nicely...I’m excited to move...