Exotic physics barely differs from outlandish fantasies when it proposes strange worlds of different dimensions. The world of Tamil comic books is one such.

For decades, it has existed without much scrutiny from the mainstream media. Most intellectuals think of comics as too trivial for their taste. And they cannot be blamed entirely. The Tamil comic world I grew up in usually had things divided neatly into good and bad. Worse, they often mapped it into white and black as well.

As a kid, I loved Phantom comics and fantasised my own skull cave in that deep jungle of our backyard garden and, of course, let me be honest, my own Diana Palmer.