Road to Nowhere

In front of his computer screen, a young boy types the following words into a search engine: THE OTHER END OF THE WORLD. That's where he decided to go. With his bag on his back and his map in hand, he jumps into a taxi to reach the station. of bus. During the night, the taxi hits a mysterious creature head-on. A humanoid-looking being, the figure riddled with eyes lies on the edge of the road. The young boy had never seen anything like it. According to the driver, This is an endangered species highly prized for its eyes which are rare camera lenses, her blood delicious like milk tea and its flesh as tender as Kobe beef. Arriving at the station, the bus that the young boy was to take was announced with a 24-hour delay. In the deserted station, he meets a young artist who lives in an old bus converted into a studio and who offers to let him drive wherever he wants. Together, they will stop in an old fossilized city and meet " The Doc, a marginal scientist with a gift for bringing creatures back to life and who knows their secret... The secret of the world. Pao-Yen Ding is a young Taiwanese author and artist, born in 1988 in Taipei. He participated in exhibitions and won many awards in Taiwan, including the first prize Young Talents of the city of Pingtung in 2016, which will allow him to be invited the following year to the International Comic Strip Festival from Angoulême.