Reel Politik reviewed in Literary Journal!

Gelgud (A House in the Jungle) turns a sharp, absurdist lens on film culture, late capitalism, and the epic highs, staggering lows, and various odd rituals of moviegoing in this satirical graphic novel that’s equal parts manifesto and workplace comedy. The story follows a group of small-town movie theater employees who—disillusioned with corporate management, digital projection, and the numbing power of algorithms—become adherents of a kind of occult Marxism and decide to seize control of the theater’s operation and do things in what they consider the right way. Soon, the workers find themselves embroiled in absurd conflicts on multiple fronts and skewing further from their ideals, as real life increasingly warps to reflect the kind of logic one usually only finds on the silver screen. Gelgud’s minimalist illustration and clever sensibility layer the graphic novel’s proceedings with visual gags and pseudo-philosophical riffs that channel both Marshall McLuhan and Monty Python, but beneath the comedy is a sincere critique of what it means to go to the movies in an age of endless algorithmically driven content and vanishing communal spaces.VERDICT A bold genre-skewering satire for fans of humor, experimental comics, and pop culture criticism.