Last Look [Paperback]

A true graphic milestone: the epic trilogy that began withX'ed Out,continued inThe Hive,and concluded inSugar Skull—now in one volume.

The long strange trip of Doug in all its mind-bending, heartbreaking totality. The fragments of the past collide with the reality of the present, nightmarish dreams evolve into an even more dreadful reality, and when you finally find out where all of this has been going, and what it means . . . it will make you go right back to the first page and read it all again with new eyes. Just like Doug.

(With full-color illustrations throughout) “Through each work in this trilogy — “X’ed Out,” “The Hive” and “Sugar Skull” — Burns keeps us visually unnerved with surreal dreams meeting warped realities. The epic benefits from being collected here as a single set of inspired weirdness.” —The Washington Post

“This is a complex, multi-layered narrative with a classic unreliable protagonist…. Burns’ art is sensational. The images from Johnny’s story are genuinely disturbing on every level. As always, his characters tap into various archetypes of American youth and family life, but with a sinister edge showing darkness behind the American dream. Burns’ work is seductive, disquieting and original and if you don’t already have the separate volumes, this is a great chance to read the story for the first time.”—The Quietus
 
“Comic book writer and artist Charles Burns is master of the creepy, dislocated narrative…. It feels trite to bring up David Lynch comparisons when they're used to lend mystique to artists who have the slightest tickle of the strange, but in Burns' case a Lynch comparison seems accurate; his work shares much with the directors output, from the thickly inked 50s style, tol£$