Reich #3

Reich, Issue #3 begins with the death of Wilhelm Reich's brother, Robert.  Then Sigmund Freud gives an offhand comment about the length Reich's paper on human sexuality, "that thick?"  This enrages Reich, who opines about his childhood on his father's farm.  He gets into sexual misadventures with the servants, he looks at the peasants' genitalia, he sexually stimulates the mares.  I mean, there are always stories of farm children buggering around with the sheep and whatnot, but Reich actually did it.

Wilhelm Reich was an extraordinary man, and that comes across very well in this third issue.  Of course, Elijah J. Brubaker, the author and artist, draws heavily from Reich's autobiography, Passion of Youth.  Whether or not Reich actually lost his virginity at age 11-and-a-half is only known to Reich and perhaps the cook with whom he allegedly lost it to.  I love the angular features of the characters in this issue, reminiscent of cubism, an art form popular at the time of Reich's life.