![]() ![]() The main personages include Sherman, a wannabe writer stuck in a dead-end bookstore job, and his college pal Ed, a budding comic book artist still looking to get laid for the first time. Much like Michael Chabon in Kavalier & Clay, Robinson uses the comics industry-especially the "golden age" (the beginnings of the comic book industry in the late 1930s)-as a platform from which to explore both his characters and the prevailing culture. Like any good novel, it is preoccupied with character-specifically, the ways in which people and relationships evolve over time. ![]() Luckily, the story involves more detail than density. Winner of an Eisner award, Robinson's first book is a graphic novel whose very size qualifies it as epic. ![]()
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