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It's a good day for Powell's readings. Tonight at the downtown store, legendary cartoonist Daniel Clowes presents a new collection of his Eisner-winning strip Mister Wonderful. Here's what Courtney had to say about it:


The titular Mister Wonderful is Marshall—divorced sad sack, desperate for love and someone to eat bagels with—who anxiously awaits a blind date with Natalie. As the minutes tick by, Natalie apparently a no-show, Marshall laments his miserable luck with women, his interior monologue chattering away, rife with self-hatred and self-importance. Dude's not very likeable. He's broke, proud, laughably crotchety with a hair-trigger temper, and thoroughly up his own ass. But he's also very human. It's a testament to Clowes' prowess that he's able to make readers see themselves in this tragic little man, even if the reflection is of our mean and insecure ways.


Read the whole review here.