Darker, more painful follow-up to Hyperbole & a Half. Deals with loss, loneliness, grief, existentialism, in addition to the previously addressed topics like weird childhood, depression, & general dysfunction. Solutions and Other Problems can possibly be seen as a good example of how weird you can get when very alone. This book somehow felt both more disjointed & more unified than Hyperbole & a Half. Parts that felt like non-sequiturs also felt very deliberate. The parts with the kid reminded me of the Joe Frank Story “Landing Strip in the Jungle”, where a street kid pesters Joe until he buys some Hashish off him, which Joe thinks is fake & so spitefully devours all of, precipitating an existential crisis. I rate Solutions & Other Problems as more disturbing than Joe Frank (especially if it was in the form of a late-night radio drama).