Habibi, Craig Thompson (review)

"Far Away Cows Wear Long Horns"
If one decided to read the Quran, the Kama Sutra and the Arabian Nights the same day, he may dream something resembling this book at night. The structure of the story truly felt like a bad dream or rather, a nightmare.
Obviously, the book is trying to say something, and whatever it is, it's not subtle (hint: you can spot one of Emirates Towers on a panorama of the big ol' bad Wanadolia).
And when the story is not making some politico-religious statement, it's throwing nudity at our faces for no other reason but for the sake of it. And yeah, it uses unintelligible Arabic calligraphy to fill in the blanks and the endless white pages. Suddenly ممنوع سبحا means "no swimming".
All in all, the drawing depiction* was okay; too bad it had all that useless text attached to it.

*You could use "portrait" or "portraiture" here too, but not "drawing". I think "depiction" is the most suitable word here though.