Oh, Chris Ware. I love your drawings, and some of your characters and stories are just so perfectly sad and real (Rusty Brown!). I hate your stupid tiny writing and the gigantic and awkward format of this particular comic collection. I mean, I understand what you are doing, I just find it kind of grating. I also don't like McSweeney's or The Toast, so a I recognize that the problem is not you, it's me. And yet, I still like reading your stuff, so keep doing your thing, and I'll keep reading it and half liking it. Love, Kristy.

This huge comic book could better be called 'Big book of terrible loneliness', because all comics deal with loneliness and tell about characters completely failing to connect with other people. All Chris Ware's usual suspects are present: Rocket Sam, Quimby the Mouse, Jimmy Corrigan, Rusty Brown and Big Tex. Of all these characters, Rusty Brown is easily the most appalling, and the comics devoted to him certainly don't invite to read more about this repulsive character. More entertaining are the comics devoted to a nameless future character in a series called 'Tales of Tomorrow'. Needless to say this world, one of endless advertising, is one of utter loneliness, too.

beyond the beauty of the book itself is the sadness of rusty brown. there is something about chris ware. even at his most nostalgic there is a lingering melancholy. like standing beneath a street light in winter with the footprints of the girl you loved trailing off in the snow.

Good god, this collection is hilarious...and moving, and the illustrations are nonpareil.

One of the funniest collections of things printed on paper, anywhere. A must have.