Keanu Reeves has played some pretty powerful entities in film: The messianic Neo, the extraterrestrial Klaatu, a pre-enlightened Buddha, and a time-traveling teen whose garage band founded a utopia. And if those sad images of his lonely meals are to be believed, all that fictional-world saving would appear to have taken its toll on the actor. But the presumed immortal Reeves, who’s beaten Death (onscreen), has mostly shrugged off those cataclysmic events and rescues, opting to focus on the good things in life, like sandwiches. Even after he was saddled with the “Sad Keanu” moniker, Reeves responded by telling the pitiful mortals who’d chuckled at his grim chewing that “it can always be worse,” compiling the memes into book form.
Now the noted marksman has announced that the follow-up to 2011’s Ode To Happiness will be a “book about shadows” titled, appropriately enough, Shadows. Reeves has teamed up with his Ode To Happiness co-author, L.A. artist Alexandra Grant, to put depressing captions on pictures of silhouettes, to remind us of how Death stalks everyone but him.