Back before my trip to San Diego I was pretty comprehensively blogging critical reaction to Dan Clowes’ Eightball #23. A handful of late entrants have since filtered in, namely Adam Stephanides’ musings on emptiness and joylessness in both protagonist and creator, Marc Singer’s reading of the book as an anti-current-administration political tract (coupled with his usual harsh take on Clowes in general), and Jog the Blog’s explanation of how the political content could be much less political than it seems. Read them all.
