Julius Julius
By Aurora Stewart de Peña
McClelland & Stewart
So there’s this ad agency. What’s special about this agency is that it’s the oldest in the world—it’s been around since Pompeii. And like in almost any ad agency, you’ll find an army of young workers, both male and female, who are trained to live and breathe the brand. Many will move on. But not all of them. Those who haven’t moved on are now ghosts that haunt the halls (or the catacombs that hold all the old files). That’s the premise. The story, while somewhat circuitous, does gain some footing, and once it does we get what we came for: the satire that mocks an industry for all that it’s worth.