"Correct your sight – See what you’ve been missing." An unnamed man stumbles upon a flyer directing him to a suspicious medical facility that promises to fix his eyesight. After he gets the operation, optical defects begin to emerge, along with a whole new set of concerns. Impressionable and easily alarmed, the man comes to suspect he has received much more than he paid for. Set in a bleak world without much to see, scams appear to be everywhere, cosmic dangers lurk just out of view. As the man’s vision changes in unforeseen ways, he plunges down a path of confusion and intrigue, no longer sure what to trust. Are the perceived dangers really present, or merely thought to be, and which is worse? Shifty and withholding, steeped in dread, Laser Eye Surgery is a comedically unsettling rumination on perception and its trappings — and a formidable debut graphic novel by New York cartoonist Walker Tate.
