For almost three decades, master cartoonist Jordan Crane has put
together a body of short stories that garnered him multiple Eisner and
Ignatz Award nominations, via the pages of his comic book series
Uptight and the influential comics anthology, Non. Yet they have
never been collected until now. Featuring over a dozen short stories
(spanning multiple genres) published over the past 25 years, Goes Like
This is a gorgeously packaged anthology (including varying paper stocks
and rounded corners) of Crane's work.
"The Hand of Gold" is a short but grim Weird Western, a morality play in
which an accidental crime leads a criminal to a supernatural maximum
security cell. "Below the Shade of Night" presents an anxiety that is
rooted in the follies and ignorance of childhood, adolescence and young
adulthood. "Vicissitude" maps uncharted territory of graphic melancholia
via a tale of infidelity. "Trash Night" depicts the troubled
relationship of Dee and Leo, with mounting tension and mistrust that
reaches a boiling point. In "The Dark Nothing," a rare foray into
science fiction, the three-person crew of prospecting ship Sagasu 17
attempt to harvest an asteroid, and things go horribly awry. "The Middle
Nowhere" begins with a man waiting in a small shack. All around him is a
black sand desert. The wind rises, the rain comes, and it just might be
the end of everything he's known. Also featuring additional prints and
drawings from the author's archives, Goes Like This is a tantalizing
sampler of one of the most brilliant cartoonists working today.
