Al futuro según Ars Magnesium: Relato de la ida por la vuelta [To the Future According to Ars Magnesium: Story of the Journey Through Its Return],

Tonel’s work fuses comic-book imagery with subtle political and cultural references. Here he tells a fantastic story that jumps from a seventeenth-century alchemical text to the year 2058. Vladimir Lenin, Antonio Gramsci, and Vladimir Mayakovski all make appearances, as does the Cuban “timba” music band NG La Banda. Tonel uses specific Cuban idioms and expressions throughout the text, as though telling the history of the Russian Revolution through Cuban popular culture. The narrative also weaves in and out of writing, collage, stamps, banknotes, and other appropriated elements.