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Forming
Forming is an eon-spanning, psychedelic, metaphysical, mystical, and epic work of modern mythology and a retelling of the trajectory of consciousness on planet Earth.
In Forming, Jesse Moynihan takes 50,000 years of socio-religious postulation and throws it in the blender to create one epic―and irreverent―battle royale between alien gods, Ancient Greek Titans, interplanetary assassin droids, and humanity itself. Originally begun in 2009 and garnering hundreds of thousands of followers online, Jesse Moynihan’s acclaimed Magnum Opus was never completed ― until now!
Spanning Atlantis, 10,000 BC, across eons and galaxies, religions and myths, humanity emerges from the primordial soup, only to be exploited for its labor by an alien super-being, leading to wars and forces between the likes we could hardly comprehend if not given life before our very eyes via Moynihan’s breathtaking and hand-painted gouache, ink, and airbrushed pages. Forming heralds the birth of civilization and maps out the genesis of life, mass, time, and space, followed by the raging war that ensues in the universe's years of adolescence and beyond, as the final fate of the universe unfolds.
Moynihan’s epic collision course of gods and mutants, philosophy and hilarity, mythology and psychedelia are an instant classic of cosmic comic book world building on par with Kirby and Moebius.
Full color illustrations throughout
In Forming, Jesse Moynihan takes 50,000 years of socio-religious postulation and throws it in the blender to create one epic―and irreverent―battle royale between alien gods, Ancient Greek Titans, interplanetary assassin droids, and humanity itself. Originally begun in 2009 and garnering hundreds of thousands of followers online, Jesse Moynihan’s acclaimed Magnum Opus was never completed ― until now!
Spanning Atlantis, 10,000 BC, across eons and galaxies, religions and myths, humanity emerges from the primordial soup, only to be exploited for its labor by an alien super-being, leading to wars and forces between the likes we could hardly comprehend if not given life before our very eyes via Moynihan’s breathtaking and hand-painted gouache, ink, and airbrushed pages. Forming heralds the birth of civilization and maps out the genesis of life, mass, time, and space, followed by the raging war that ensues in the universe's years of adolescence and beyond, as the final fate of the universe unfolds.
Moynihan’s epic collision course of gods and mutants, philosophy and hilarity, mythology and psychedelia are an instant classic of cosmic comic book world building on par with Kirby and Moebius.
Full color illustrations throughout
448 pages, Hardcover
Published October 6, 2026
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October 18, 2026
Finally, at least ten years after Forming book I came out, get to finish reading Jesse Moynihan’s epic tome. A hilariously self-aware, gorgeous, psychedelic sorta mashup of the Old Testament and Dune, and a dash of art theory. Which makes it sound headier than it is. It’s also an epic “fuck you” to epics.
October 25, 2026
So this was completely insane, beautiful, incomprehensible, enlightening... hilarious...
There's a lot of Adventure Time in it, by which I mean there's a lot of it in Adventure Time.
It makes me feel weird because it's as epic and meaningful as Anders Nielsen's Tongues, but in a completely different, complementarity way.
Mad props.
There's a lot of Adventure Time in it, by which I mean there's a lot of it in Adventure Time.
It makes me feel weird because it's as epic and meaningful as Anders Nielsen's Tongues, but in a completely different, complementarity way.
Mad props.
October 22, 2026
Quite possibly one of the greatest things ever written, this should be the bible
Review of advance copy received from Publisher
Jack Kirby's cosmic Marvel mythology. Moebius' surreal Euro scifi. Adventure Time's pop-art fantasy emotionalism. Beavis and Butthead's ridiculously bad humaning. Jesse Moynihan's Forming may remind you of all these things while taking you on a goofy, bawdy, mind-expanding journey through time, space, sex, violence, religions and cultural evolution. Existential struggle was never so hilarious. Psychedelic cartooning was never so serious. Get ready for a trip!
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