![]() ![]() While a navel-gazing, lonely, main character is predictable for an underground comic, Clowes’s illustrations and page layouts redeem Mister Wonderful. The big question of Mister Wonderful is whether Marshall can get over his neuroticisms (grossly lying about how much money he makes) and his social ineptitude (screaming at a homeless man during dinner) and make a connection with Natalie. ![]() Marshall says of his lowered expectations, “All I want is someone to eat breakfast with on Sunday morning, someone to read the parts of the paper I throw away (travel, garden).” They’ve been set up by a pair of mutual friends. Mister Wonderful is a novella-length work about a divorced, self-conscious, middle-aged guy named Marshall who’s going on a blind date with a girl named Natalie (also recovering from romantic disaster). The fan-favorite Eisner Award-winning story, originally serializ. Mister Wonderful, part of which was originally serialized in The New York Times Magazine, is on the sensitive realism end of Clowes’s storytelling spectrum. Read 297 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. ![]() Dan Clowes’s comics have ranged from grotesque surrealism ( Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron) in the spirit of David Lynch, to sensitive realism ( Ghost World, Caricature) in the spirit of J.D. Avec ce livre construit autour de sayntes parues chaque semaine dans le New York Times, Daniel Clowes donne naissance un nouvel anti-hros : Marshall, clibataire introspectif et grisonnant, s’apitoie sur son sort et sur celui de l’humanit toute entire qui part vau-l’eau. ![]()
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