Is this a legit way to visualize complex functions?

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I am doing laplace transform in a class and I hate how there seems to be no graphical support when things are transformed to laplace domain i.e. nobody cares what they look like in laplace domain

But I think I have found a short cut, prove me wrong!

Take the laplace transform of y(t) = 1 yields Y(s) = 1/s

Cheat and plot it as a function of real number

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Now I rotate this graph around the z-axis and get a volcano looking thing

Voilà, wolfram alpha seems to approve

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Can anyone opine on whatever little mathematic may be in this approach? Is this method extendable to other functions of complex variable?

This seems to have little mathematical basis but I wonder if I can fight with other laplace transforms (usually rational functions of the form p(s)/q(s)) using similar method and attempt to "visualize" what they might look like in complex domain