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Patience by Daniel Clowes

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

The Death-Ray by Daniel Clowes

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challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes

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funny reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

David Boring by Daniel Clowes

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dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

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emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Pussey! by Daniel Clowes

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funny sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel Clowes

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dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? N/A
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World by Thomas Hübl

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hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.25

I agree with the practical conclusions on the author, but it drove me crazy how the author switched back and forth between good science and pseudoscience or even parapsychology. We know, for example, that epigenetic trauma transmission can potentially pass really specific trauma responses to further generations and this has profound implications. But for some reason he'll cite a real study showing this in mice one minute, only to turn around and give Rupert Sheldrake's morphic resonance theory, widely considered pseudoscience and unnecessary to explain trauma transmission given what we now know about epigenetics, the same level of credence. Then he might throw in the implication that the ghosts of our ancestors are also hanging around so we can help them work through their traumas, just for good measure.

Thankfully, his conclusions about things like how we do therapy still turn out to be solid. I just don't think we can afford to promote scientific illiteracy on this day and age.

Perla la Loca by Jaime Hernández

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emotional funny sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Raising Good Humans by Hunter Clarke-Fields

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adventurous challenging hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

5.0