Dan Clowes, Patience draft cover

The back cover of Clowes' 2016 book Patience describes it as "a cosmic timewarp deathtrip to the primordial infinite of everlasting love". Would you buy this book based on that description?

I found it to be a deeply touching reflection on love and loss. Patience - which is both the name of the main character's murdered wife and what he must do to try live with his loss and ultimately fail to regain his previous life - is a story about things gone wrong. A life is taken away, an obsessive search to find out who murdered her, a focus on time traveling back to before the murder - while failing at his goals, the main character also fails to notice that his actions have become his life.

Clowes is unique, especially in long form as here in Patience and more recently in Monica. It takes me a few readings before I feel I truly understand how Clowes matches theme and action. I am pleased to have this almost finished draft cover.