Amazon.com description: Product Description: Clowes' first book remains a modern classic 15 years after the English edition's debut in Eightball, an award-winning comic series known for its gleefully incisive social satire. This noirish, surreal graphic novel that follows a man's search for his ex-lover has been favorably compared to the works of David Lynch and Fellini. As the protagonist attempts to untangle the vast conspiracy he's become a part of, the story becomes a vivid and fantastic examination of futility, self-loathing and paranoia, and a masterpiece of postmodern fairy-telling.