أنا من عشاق دانيال كلوفز، فهو يملك عين ثاقبة ترى الكثير مما لا نراه في مواقف عادية وأشخاص عاديين، وهذه الحكاية لن تستغرق في قراءتها أكثر من ساعة، لكنك ستستمتع بتدفق الأفكار في شكل تيار الوعي وتمثلها في رأس البطل قدمًا بقدم مع الحكاية البسيطة المقدمة هنا.

A short graphic novel about a man's blind date. Like a lot of Daniel Clowes work, the stakes are fairly low, but he draws you into the internal world of the character so well that even the anxiety of whether his date is going to turn up or not feels so important that it's an earrh-shatteringly huge issue. So by making you care about seemingly mundane details, the book made me care about a story which might have otherwise appeared boring, as very little happens. The art style is also quite unassuming but effective helps to guide you through the story.

Boy meets girl in picture format. OK middle-aged divorced male meets late 30s female on a blind date in graphix novel.

Lunch time read at the library; short and depressing as hell.

He's trying so hard to make this have a happy ending! A divorced, middle-aged man named Marshall goes on a blind date at a coffee shop, and this tells the story of the date and all of the various worst-case scenarios, daydreams, fantasies, and imagined outcomes that Marshall obsesses over.

I was able to finish this jaunty read in the time it took my son to watch one Thomas the Tank Engine DVD which is nice. It's a funny, neurotic and surprisingly prone to violence little story of man at the bottom of his luck for six straight years finally seeing a ladder out only to have his interiori monologue set him up for self sabotage throughout.

It's a fun read! You can knock it out in an hour!

Really, really good. I liked this a lot. It's lighter in tone (even if the narrator is a second-guessing, self-doubting neurotic) than a lot of Clowes' stuff. Ok, but that's the thing about this narrator. I don't think there's anything more neurotic about him than there is about the average bear. I think everyone plays the same mind games, just some are better at hiding it than others. Clowes uses some cool techniques here - many short fantasy sequences, varying illustration styles, and of course, the everpresent internal thought boxes that often crowd out the actual dialogue. Plus, I really dig the illustrations. The color work is spot on and yeah, this gets my favorite GN compliment - it's totally frameable.

The parts didn't add up to an engaging whole.
My tastes are partially to blame. I dislike neurotic inner monologues and daydreams in most of what I read.