Summer reading: Daniel Clowes' Eightball #23 is the only graphic novel to make Time magazine's summer reading list ("If You Read Only 10 Trashy Novels This Summer"):
 
"If you think Peter Parker is alienated and nerdy, check out Andy, a feckless, aimless orphan whose father left him an unusual legacy: superstrength and a ray gun that instantly annihilates its victims. Eightball positively crackles with self-loathing and pop-culture smarts and crawls with the kind of weirdo loners Clowes portrayed so well in Ghost World. Every frame is like a melancholy miniature Daumier, rendered in pulpy primary colors. If you're wondering what all the fuss is about comic books — sorry, graphic novels — check out Clowes. Nobody does them better."
 
Time says "it's like Holden Caulfield with his phaser set on kill. Phonies beware."