Nothing Left to Lose

    (Water Media, 2004)
™ and © 2004 Josh Farkas

Science-fiction doesn’t really capture the whole of Nothing Left to Lose, a book you have assuredly never seen anything like it before. Three mental patients, an escaped creature, a paramilitary conspiracy, and numerous authorities with horrific personalities exercising sadistic control sounds like high-adventure, but it’s all cast on a very individual, personal level. It’s Daniel Clowes set himself to rehabilitating a Jerry Bruckheimer story, with the ending firmly in the realm of the former. It’s the sort of book one reads at least twice, so consider: at over 200 pages for $7 and a mind-bending story, you’ve already gotten the next three years’ worth bang for your buck that would come from your standard Marvel or DC book. Josh Farkas has things going on his head that, plainly, the comics market needs to see.

— Brendan McGinley
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