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RectoVerso

recto: the right-hand page. verso: the left-hand page, the back of the one before.

ISSUE #01LIMITED RUN

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Recto Verso, issue #01

Recto Verso is a product of the billionlightyearland anarcommonarxapitlist corporate collective.

Made by skhul, bownz, wallface and nargle.

Printed in limited quantities and handed out to hobos and vagrants sometime in 2018 or so.

Take a copyPDF, 4.4 MB, 22 sheets

Every sheet in order, no page turning
  1. Back cover. A flat, grainy drawing of a yellow two-storey building on teal, with two blue windows and green-framed double doors.Front cover. On a green ground: a spinning propeller-topped totem beside the words “Earthlings inferior to slack!”, a pink eye under a golden pyramid, a tall plant shaped like a cross with a cyan and pink crossbar, and Japanese katakana running down the right edge. At the bottom: RECTO VERSO, issue #01.
    Sheet 1: back cover (left) and front cover (right), as printed.
  2. Left: an excavated skeleton lying in a grave, with arrows pointing at it and a measuring rod beside it. Right: the same skeleton traced in white on black, headed “Amputated limb knife hand”, with a buckle and a knife labelled.
    Sheet 2
  3. Two large photographic portraits side by side: a bearded man in a beret with a cigar, and a man in a military greatcoat with red collar tabs.
    Sheet 3
  4. Two posters of shouted slogans in big serif capitals, yellow on the left and purple on the right: “HEIL! CHIEF.”, “ABRACADABRA!!”, “EXCELSIS!”, “FREE?”, “NAMASTE GUATAMA ASSALAMUALAIKUM!”, “PROPHET”, “I AM HE!”, “CREATOR”, “MELEK TAUS”.
    Sheet 4
  5. A white space capsule floating in a dark chamber on the left, and a cockpit of glowing screens seen from below on the right.
    Sheet 5
  6. Left: a face with an upturned moustache washed in red. Right: an old man's portrait set in a fractal pattern, over repeating text that begins “KARL YUNG THE MOON SAYS”.
    Sheet 6
  7. Left: a green and red creature drawn with rough neon edges. Right: an old man laughing, printed in inverted purple colours.
    Sheet 7
  8. A magazine-style article in two columns: “SPACE, WHERE WE ARE. THE CASUAL COSMOS: AN IN-DEPTH SUMMARY”, with a photo of a vast space habitat and a section headed “Corporate “Geniuses””.
    Sheet 8
  9. Left: a parody chip logo reading “incel inside peni®!!!”, surrounded by small repeated faces. Right: a phone screenshot of a muscular green bird-man on pink, labelled “COMING SOON” and “6 of 7”, with a button that says “WHY?”.
    Sheet 9
  10. Text on a blue sky across both pages: “THE 12 RUL“O”ES FOR LIFE by Gorden Eagerbrow”, listing rules one to twelve.
    Sheet 10
  11. Left: a close-up of a hand holding a sleeve with a small tree embroidered on it. Right: a young man in a bleached denim jacket, under the words “BACK for the FIRST TIME”.
    Sheet 11
  12. A spread titled “Idiots.” in handwriting: two old studio photographs, a man with a glass on the left and a baby in a crown on the right, hand-tinted and labelled as specimens.
    Sheet 12
  13. Huge rough black lettering over patterned panels: “FART OUT LOUD” on the left, “STAND OUT NICELY” on the right.
    Sheet 13
  14. Left: a dolphin with its mouth open above the water. Right: green bullet points headed “The Last Straw”, starting “Straws are better for the ocean because they have a hollow center”.
    Sheet 14
  15. “Shoitan presents, a dialogue with Taus Melek of Lalish and Ritz Warlok of Baalbek”: a conversation in coloured speech boxes over a painting of a figure in a glowing landscape.
    Sheet 15
  16. Two manifestos on crumpled paper: “Manifesto of the Communiqliche: the early years” and “A call to mental arms and physical hugs”.
    Sheet 16
  17. A painted man in a laurel wreath and a T-shirt, driving a car and reading a map.
    Sheet 17
  18. Horoscopes: columns of text for each star sign, framed by old woodcut pictures of the zodiac.
    Sheet 18
  19. White text on a starfield across both pages: “Formal Salutations to Exquisite Existence”.
    Sheet 19
  20. A blurry black-and-white fragrance advert: “WHITE THORN. The new fragrance by Hackberry Labs. Soft, tender PRIMAL. Is it monsoon season already? No, it's WHITE THORN.”
    Sheet 20
  21. “A Cautionary Tale”: a long story printed on a golden panel over rocks, with a husky's head at the right edge.
    Sheet 21
  22. A propaganda-style poster of two smiling workers with red Korean lettering. Top right, in capitals: “recto verso is a product of the billionlightyearland universal anarcommonarxapitalist corporate collective” and a panel of “CONTRIBUTEURS”: skhul, bownz, wallface and nargle, each shown as an old painted portrait.
    Sheet 22