I really liked Ghost World but didn’t find any Clowes after that that I could really get into (I think I read 'Ice Haven' and 'David Boring' and maybe 'Velvet Glove...' as they're always on the shelves at the local library). But finally I've come across another great one.'The Death-Ray' is a sup...
Mister Wonderful seemed like a great fellow to me, and yes, I was routing for him to get the girl until his temper came out. A man with a short temper impossible to contain will not be so wonderful once you move in with him. How many punches can he throw before you get in the way!!Aside from that...
I liked this pretty well. I really enjoyed the ways it portrayed honesty within the world and within relationships (especially budding relationships), including the results from being overly honest and picking and choosing what truths to tell. At times it scared me because I thought my mind worke...
This work is the epitome of self-indulgent nonsensical puffery. Out of some forty pages maybe ten are worth someone’s time. These are short stories, mostly snippets of biographical nonsensical non-events about Andy and Louie, shiftless juvenile idlers. Almost every brief episode has neither plot ...
Distant.If you've read Clowes' other work, you know the sort of distance that exists between the reader, the character, and the world. Clowes' work tends towards misanthropy - everyone is bad in some way, and the shading of bad is just that. People don't redeem themselves - they wait too long and...
Daniel Clowes' The Death-Ray won multiple awards but I don't understand why. Perhaps I put too much faith in The I.T. Crowd's set designers, seeing Jim Woodring and Maakies items appearing on desks and walls along with a poster of The Death-Ray reminding me I should read it every time I queue up ...
