FANTAGRAPHICS UNDERGROUND LASER EYE SURGERY GN (9798875001543)

A chance encounter with a misplaced flyer leads to disaster as a seemingly ordinary eyesight-correction operation takes on sinister overtones.
'Correct your sight - See what you've been missing.' An unnamed man decides to adjust his sight, setting him and the reader down a path of confusion and mistrust. As optical defects begin to emerge from the operation, the man begins to doubt his own senses. Impressionable and easily alarmed, the man comes to suspect he has received much more than he paid for. Set in a bleak world without much to see, cosmic dangers lurk just out of sight in the corner of one's eye. If only there was a way to see them better… Fixed views deteriorate in this warped account of a surgical procedure gone awry. As the man's vision continues to change in unforeseen ways, he plunges down a path of confusion and intrigue, no longer sure what to trust. Are the perceived dangers present, or merely thought to be, and which is worse? Shifty and withholding, steeped in paranoia, Laser Eye Surgery is a comedically unsettling rumination on perception and its trappings - and a formidable debut graphic novel by New York cartoonist Walker Tate.