![]() ![]() The fun comes from the style of the book which is in turn influenced by the old comics Seth and his characters love. In some hands this would be self-indulgent, but thankfully this book retains the zany sense of fun Seth must have had in writing it. Gradually this became more serious, and eventually the many and varied fragments formed into a loose plot, which became this book. ![]() Writer and artist 'Seth' never really intended this material to form a book, merely doodling the adventures of various obsessives from time to time, as a fun exercise. Wimbledon Green himself is the most fascinating of these, but he's one of a pantheon of driven, backbiting individuals who form a comic collecting elite. Subtitled 'The Greatest Comic Book Collector in the World', this book cleverly bridges the gap between serious graphic novels and the more mainstream superhero comics tradition by looking seriously at the bizarre adventures of comic book collectors. ![]()
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