Blame!

Blame! is Tsutomu Nihei's vision of a structure that has grown without limit, a city the size of planets, built by machines that no longer answer to anyone. A near-silent loner named Killy walks through this maze searching for a human with the Net Terminal Gene, the one thing that might stop the construction. There is almost no dialogue. Whole chapters pass with nothing but a figure crossing impossible architecture, occasionally interrupted by gun violence against things that barely register as enemies. Nihei trained as an architect, and it shows in every panel. The book is hard to follow on purpose, and its scale is genuinely disorienting.