After self-publishing this title for six issues, Nilsen's flagship title is now being published under the auspices of Drawn & Quarterly, following their success with his Dogs and Water.  An obviously keen observer of nature, Nilsen has, over the course of the seven issues of this title, combined his native rendering skills with his eager and probing intellect to forge an (admittedly abstruse) allegory of a contemporary emotional landscape.  Fear, desire, greed, anxiety, loss and despair find expression in odd and ungainly visual collision of various and sundry pairings of flora and fauna (primarily birds), inanely repetitive movements of ambulatory creatures, blank stares, and random events, with a Socratic dialogue of rudimentarily grasped abstract concepts and their dimly seen symbolic representations.  Each issue of Big Questions offers the rare combination of æsthetic enjoyment and intellectual challenge, and this issue is certainly no exception.