Abstract
Serialized monthly from August through October, 2003, Unshredded Man?written by Peter Milligan with art by Javier Pulido?is a two-part storyline from short-lived Human Target series published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. The story begins at end of issue #1 of series, with a two-page pre lude involving an almost mind-numbing paradox: a living dead man recalling moment of his own demise. remember day I died is prelude's first caption, overlaying a vertical panel focused on an average looking, middle-class man, his eyes closed, kissing a woman on cheek.1 With each successive panel on this page (eight in all), we follow unnamed man on his way to work, and each panel con tains a similar intermixture of mundane visuals and surreal rumina tions. The juxtapositions are stark: as man waves goodbye to his smiling wife and two sons, we read, If I'd known I'd be dying that day I'd have said something more to Helen and kids; as man's blank face and unassuming frame are crowded on subway, we learn that the idea of dying, of escaping exposure, shame and prison had been on my mind for some time. Through caption boxes it be comes apparent that unnamed man has been involved in ques tionable business practices that could land him in jail; feeling the noose tightening, he recalls walking streets, trying to figure a way
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