A remarkable comic, a true discovery. The story of a thirty-six-year-old flabby and maladjusted man attempting to rebuild his relationship with his father, both characters dysfunctional and tinged with misogyny and racism. The techniques with which the narrative is woven are remarkable, very "stream of consciousness," with various digressions from the main events and the characters' daydreams, where the most repressed instincts and impulses of the human soul are vented, as well as the parallelism with another story, another dysfunctional father-son relationship involving Jimmy's great-grandfather and grandfather. A fairly demanding read due to the dense use of the table, the numerous graphic and visual inventions, but extremely rewarding; at first, the graphical and narrative setup can repel and frustrate, but once the mechanism is understood, the story and involvement take flight, offering genuinely touching moments.
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