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In the same format as Low Moon (2009), this new hardcover collects six of the Norwegian French cartoonist's stories. His minimalist style has stabilized on a strictly uniform layout of four panels per page; distinctive animal-headed, blank-eyed characters; spacious, clear lines; flat colors; and sparse dialogue. What's amazing is how much he can squeeze from so little. Though their emotional register usually falls somewhere between disappointment and death, the stories make an eclectic bunch. The title piece is technically related to Jason's loopy sci-fi parody, The Last Musketeer (2008), but has little to do with either the satire of that tale or anything that happens in it. Here, Athos regales a 1920s bartender with his Hollywood exploits. Then there's A Cat from Heaven, which pictures Jason as a hard-drinking, growlingly literary Bukowski type in a strange smash-up of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and the mad-scientist flick, The Brain That Wouldn't Die. Sure, Jason's following his muse down the wormiest of rabbit holes these days, but you wouldn't want him any less weird.--Chipman, Ian Copyright 2010 Booklist
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