Library Journal Review

It's difficult to explain what makes -Haven's (Vague Tales) comics so appealing. They're droll but also incredibly absurd. He can be silly on one page and massively grim on the next. A tale that begins set in a recognizably realistic universe might suddenly swerve into the fantastic; a story with a fantastic premise can twist toward verisimilitude for a few beats before careening dramatically in a direction ten times more bizarre. The short works collected here, all previously published in various anthologies, feature glaciologists, an awkward date with a woman only a few inches tall, an ancient war between lizards and mammals, and outlandish superhero parodies. "I Killed Dan Clowes" is a peculiar masterpiece of irreverence and self-deprecation, opening with the accidental murder of beloved cartoonist Dan Clowes (Patience) and getting stranger from panel to panel. VERDICT Combining the sky's-the-limit outrageousness of golden age superhero comics with the hip sensibility of a modern indie cartoonist, these stories are -delightful and unlike anything anyone else is producing. Not to be missed.-TB © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.