I guess it’s not a good thing when you enjoy the creator’s commentary on his comics a lot more than the comics themselves, and that’s pretty much what happened here. It’s a bunch of completely unrelated vignettes, which itself could be fine, but the story or episode always ended just when I started to get interested. There was no characterization, and I was left hanging every time. Background info of graphic novel proportions is not necessary, but if you consider, for example, the character Runt, all you’re given is a depiction of a woman abandoning her baby. OK, what happens next? Why should I care about her? Other than comics, there is a short dialogue about the nature of the afterlife, and various art work that I didn’t mind. My favourite part was a touching tribute to Barclay’s late grandfather, but 35 pages of pictures of footprints was a bit too long. (Heather Ball)
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