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Frank in The River was a surrealist wordless comic which works surprisingly well, there are excellent uses of visual clues in order to progress the story with more than just showing us, it did a good job of giving the reader two plus two instead of four. By letting the reader figure out what is going on, it really makes the reader much more involved in the story than if it simply force fed the information. This odd story really works well on it's own as a self contained scenario; totally unrealistic yet still believable because it follows a set of rules the story sets up. 

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