jrug's review against another edition
4.0
This volume was very up and down for me, but I'm going to blame myself, rather than the author. This is especially true of "The Sunset", in which the protagonist describes seeing a sunset from his desk - I can see something that others will probably find interesting is happening, but it doesn't interest me.
I loved "The Groceries", though, with its mundane conversation punctuated by imagined futures. Glenn Ganges beating to death competing hypotheses on optical illusions and the moon in "The Moon Rose" was perfect; I was intrigued by the way Huizenga presented ideas while simultaneously getting across the awkwardness of the whole thing. Plus, I too am the kind of person who would freak out his neighbors with science.
I loved "The Groceries", though, with its mundane conversation punctuated by imagined futures. Glenn Ganges beating to death competing hypotheses on optical illusions and the moon in "The Moon Rose" was perfect; I was intrigued by the way Huizenga presented ideas while simultaneously getting across the awkwardness of the whole thing. Plus, I too am the kind of person who would freak out his neighbors with science.
mountsleepyhead's review against another edition
3.0
Hit or miss, but Huizenga excels at the quiet comics that so perfectly capture life itself. One comic chronicles something as simple as Glenn Ganges taking in groceries with his pregnant wife and feeling the inevitability of their forthcoming child. "My wife has a little baby in there," Ganges says, watching his wife unpack groceries, flashing forward to beautifully quotidian moments of future fatherhood as his wife grumpily unpacks the groceries because he's just standing there making her do all the work. There's a chunk later in the book that describes why the moon looks red/bigger than it actually is that made my eyes gloss over a bit as Huizenga crafts these wordy, cluttered diagrams that would have been fine were they a bit more restrained. But that's nitpicking, overall this is a sweet and soulful little book.
floodfish's review
3.0
Frothy but nice. Not my favorite stuff of his, but it all feels good going down.
Special note regarding the several/many diagrams in here. I ended up only glossing them. Unsure if they're clumsy on purpose to match the character … I found them them to be totally effective props but not really parseable.
Special note regarding the several/many diagrams in here. I ended up only glossing them. Unsure if they're clumsy on purpose to match the character … I found them them to be totally effective props but not really parseable.
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