Unfolding Quest

Unfolding Quest is not simply a comic book; it is a cinematic object disguised as sequential art — a visualmeditation unfolding across shifting terrains of time, genre, and imagination.At its center stands Pai, a blue-skinned wanderer whose Smurf-like exterior conceals a Buddha-likestillness and an enigmatic inner life. Pursuing him is Colonel Wolan, a figure reminiscent of aneighteenth-century gentleman of fortune — hunter, witness, and perhaps mirror — whose relentlesspursuit carries the narrative through fractured landscapes: a nocturnal card-sharp duel aboard a train, thedesolate expanses of a post-apocalyptic Central European hinterland, and the ceremonial court of a distantsci-fi empress.Yet narrative is only one layer of Mileta Postić’s vision. The true force of Unfolding Quest lies in itsvisual thinking — in the mysteries hidden within each meticulously composed panel and in the chargedspaces between them.Echoing the dream logic of Alice in Wonderland refracted through a psychedelic dystopia, Postićconstructs a hybrid world where historical epochs collide, costumes migrate across centuries, and genresdissolve into one another. Reality is neither rejected nor imitated; it is reassembled into a parallelcontinuum that feels at once estranged and intimately familiar.Postić’s drawing is dense yet restrained. It is baroque yet precise. Action in Unfolding Quest unfolds withdeliberate understatement, allowing suggestion and unsaid to activate the reader’s imagination. Meaningresides not only within the frame but in the off-space — the invisible arena where images resonate andtransform. Here, a demi-monde of Central European drifters, card sharps, police officers, women ofambiguous virtue, extraterrestrial travelers, and the elusive Pai move together within the grand guignol ofPostić’s boundless imagination.The result is a work inhabiting a visual grey zone — where Quentin Tarantino’s absurdist rhythmsintersect with the wasteland poetics of Hermann’s Jeremiah, where philosophical notions of resemblance,contiguity, and causation brush against the uncanny symbolism of the digital age- the crazed AIemoticons.Unfolding Quest invites not passive reading but active wandering — a journey through images thatdream, resist, and unfold beyond their own borders.Written by: Rajko Radović, filmmaker and film scholar