For me this book slowly built up tension like a pot of water slowly coming to a boil, much like the time period covered in this memoir. The cut-out art style reminds me a little bit of Get Your War On or maybe This Modern World. (The “can you believe this shit?” attitude of GYWO & TMW also resonate a bit with parts of Good Talk, but there end the similarities.) I like the way Jacob uses photographic backgrounds in most of the frames. Makes me want to read Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, and also “Bree’s” novel that Jacobs was writing. I feel like the book took on a sadder tone after the encounter with “budding author Bree”.