Imagine Wanting Only This

(If you are a huge graphic novels fan, you may want to disregard this entire review.)

I'm not, as a rule, crazy about graphic novels. They tend, in my view, to be beautifully illustrated, yes, but text-wise quite disappointing.

This graphic novel is different. The text is rich, and thoughtful, and brilliant, and the illustrations are wonderful, too.

The story is a meditation on Radtke's own life, and it centers on her experiences with a site where a fellow who was obsessed with decay found his own demise. It's about death and ruin and destruction and degeneration, and it is very wise. Depressing, too, but very true.