A crazy time-travel adventure love story. Not as bizarre or creepy as David Boring or Death Ray. Patience and Death Ray both involve superpowers being used to solve everyday problems.

The digressions are reason enough to read this book. Tangential topics included Star Trek Universe politics, Superhero Comics, The Dark Knight Rises (sucks), the idea of the postal service, and rural life in Madagascar. I thought the real focus of this book is how violence is integrated into our everyday systems of rules, and how that leads us to accept the idea that everyday violence is necessary to maintain society.

I especially liked the background art ("bigfoot: ghost hunter" and "astroshark" playing at the movie theater, for instance).

This might be my favorite Ms. Marvel. Themes include gentrification, weddings, zombie apocalypse, and deus ex machina. Again, the background details are great ("Bougie Foods" "Facebucks").

A great telling of the story of Babbage's and Ada Lovelace's collaboration on Babbage's (ultimately unrealized) Analytical Engine. Very dense for a comic book, even the imagined parts. The footnotes and endnotes (and endnotes' footnotes) by themselves make this book worth reading (sort of like Lovelace's translation of and commentary on Sketch of the Analytical Engine).

A collection of many of John Le Carre's dinnertime anecdotes, and probably a couple of stories about his dad he tries to avoid talking about. The Pigeon Tunnel is a fun read, and pretty quick too.

The story of Gauguin's life and work, as told in the afterlife. The afterward is itself an interesting read. An interesting idea from the book is that Gauguin was always a traveler and wanderer, and his life as a bourgeois family man was only a settled interlude.

Wilson is kind of an anti-Ziggy, similar to Ruben Bolling's Super Fun Pak character "Dinkle, the UNlovable Loser", but with somewhat of a story arc. I found Wilson himself to be a departure from other Clowes main characters (lacking super powers, having more words), but Wilson the book explores many similar themes such as obsession, love, fate, and jerks.

Impressionistic and cinematic. The art seemed to move on the page!

A collection of Joe Sacco's news dispatches from the late 90s-2010s. Sacco makes the case for comics as a real medium for news stories. He highlights his interviewing and witnessing presence in his stories by drawing himself very cartoonishly among mostly realistic characters and backgrounds.