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The fan-favorite Eisner Award-winning story, originally seri­alized in The New York Times Magazine, now collected and with forty pages of new material. Meet Marshall. Sitting alone in the local coffee place. He's been set up by his friend Tim on a blind date with someone named Natalie, and now he's just feeling set up. She's nine minutes late and counting. Who was he kidding anyway? Divorced, middle-aged, newly unemployed, with next to no prospects, Marshall isn't ex­actly what you'd call a catch. Twenty minutes pass. A half hour. Marshall orders a scotch. (He wasn't going to drink!) Forty minutes. Then, after nearly an hour, when he's long since given up hope, Natalie appears-breathless, apologiz­ing profusely that she went to the wrong place. She takes a seat, to Marshall's utter amazement. She's too good to be true: attractive, young, intel­ligent, and she seems to be seriously engaged with what Marshall has to say. There has to be a catch. And, of course, there is. During the extremely long night that f

Orphelin solitaire, Andy est un adolescent qui acquiert des superpouvoirs à force de tirer sur sa cigarette. Face à une pénurie de vrais méchants mais hanté par un désir de vengeance, il fait avec ce qu'il a sous la main : petites brutes, ersatz de rebelles et de jeunes losers. Allusion à la politique étrangère américaine doublée d'un sens aigu de l'ennui chez les adolescents.