![]() ![]() ![]() The first among many stories to gain notice were the darkly comic Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron and his savage take on the comics industry, Pussey. In 1989, he created the seminal comic book series, Eightball. This is, however, serious and innovative work and it's never boring. Daniel Clowes began his career as an alternative cartoonist in 1985 with the short-lived comic book series Lloyd Llewellyn. The same fans may feel the ambitious narrative tries to do too many things at once. Clowes's faux-na f drawing style is as effective as ever, and his fans will certainly enjoy it. Clowes (Eightball) alternates moving scenes of personal alienation and despair with bizarre transitions, portentous plot twists and an unconvincing mix'n'match of genres. One subplot concerns the Yellow Streak, a superhero comic that Boring's father drew long ago another concerns the Eerie Boy, who keeps invading our antihero's dreams. Convalescing on the resort island where he spent part of his youth, Boring and the other vacationers find themselves stuck there indefinitely after terrorists' germ weapons render the mainland U.S. When Boring's visiting hometown acquaintance is murdered, he becomes the main suspect. He shares an apartment in ""the city"" with Dot, a wisecracking lesbian friend, to whom he recounts his passionless, fetishistic sexual conquests he falls in love with Wanda, a girl who's just his type, only to have her vanish. ![]() David Boring is one of Clowes's signature types-affectless, indifferent to his future and disdaining the small town he left behind. Critically lauded comics artist Clowes follows up his masterful Ghost World with this sometimes enticing, sometimes baffling, graphic novel about a postadolescent antihero. ![]()
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