Timeline

• Aug 26, 2025: started reading.
• Sep 12, 2025: finished reading.

Review

Any time someone tells you that graphic novels aren’t serious or worth your time, shove this beautiful book into their hands and lock them in a room until they’ve read the whole thing.

Ware is a master of the form. I say that without hyperbole. He’s doing some of the most interesting visual storytelling I’ve ever seen throughout this book. The opening pages of the Jordan Lint section knocked me over. Raw, uncut characterization and narrative beamed straight into the visual cortex.

And it’s not just the art. It’s the fully realized characters. The minutely detailed world they inhabit. The economy of exposition. All of it adds up to one of the most rewarding reading experiences you can have if you give it the time and attention it merits.

It’s a really special book. A privilege to have spent time with it, and I’m glad Ware stuck with the project over the two decades he was working on it.