In The Rough Pearl, Xeric award-winning cartoonist Kevin Mutch skewers theory-spouting academics, sleazy art dealers, and obnoxious over-sharers. This wryly funny, slice-of-life tale is further enlivened by a touch of the otherworldly, as Adam contents with eerie, pitch-black void, flesh-eating zombies, and a vast, secret network of bug-eyed, bald-headed aliens