Patience [Hardcover]

The most anticipated graphic novel of 2016: from the creator of Deeply felt and winding story of love and the limits of time nestled within an operatic science-fiction structure that is bursting with wild colors and page design. Disturbing, convoluted, darkly comic and just plain dark, the book itself is a thing of beauty. The book's self-awareness and sympathy make it more than just an exercise in the mixing of genres, but it's in this unabashed mixing that Clowes creates a story that is as transcendent as it is upsetting  and affirming. DAN CLOWES. American. A master. Perfect fusion of story and art. Clowes is an auteur. Period. A superb narrator. Patience is the rare time travel tale that fully delivers. The greatest action in Clowess time-travel murder mystery isnt the violence, surprise twists, or trippy visuals, it is whether Jack will choose to give into the lure of his past or accept the future he has created. A world where time travel is as real as love. The humanity of this futuristic thriller is alarmingly palpable. It's final pages left me close to tears but filled with hope. A huge gorgeous slab of a book with drawings so sumptuous and vibrant I wanted to plaster them all over my walls. A genuine, selfless love story that stretches out across space and time, and it isn't spoiling things to say you may well have your mind pleasantly expanded by the ending. Some of the freakiest art Clowes has ever drawn. Daniel Clowes's new graphic novel is a time-travel thriller filtered through his own furiously warped sensibility. ... Nobody draws reality curdling around its edges like Clowes... and Jack's all-devouring quest for vengeance mutates his story from a sci-fi whodunit to psychedelic psychological horror. A bizarre masterwork. The creator of Clowes latest work finds the graphic novelist at the height of his powers, employing all the mind-bending talent he can muster. Each panel reminds us that every moment matters. Tender and heartfelt, exlãá