There is no time like this
cartoonist: Paul B. Rainey
Publisher: Draw and quarterly
Publication date: March 2025
Recommending comics can be a tricky business. I think this is true in any medium, but I feel like telling your friends to look at the comics, the speed that combines with the speed of our (most) comics and the medium level of stories with the process we personally fill. The combination of speed personalized or sometimes completely changes the way my shots are, which is with other people who can identify other people’s experiences, which is with our sometimes completely changing the comics experiences. Be a British cartoonist Paul B. Rainey The last book, Why don’t you love me?coming out in early 2023, but, I appreciate it and encourage almost anyone and everyone to come and pick it up.
In my comments, I call it “a true masterpiece, a carefully thoughtful person for people who spend years in the medium and want to push their abilities.” Don’t go too much with another book, but I find Why don’t you love me? To be an ambush of formula, this book draws you to think it’s one thing – a rough update to Sunday’s newspaper, with the content involving families who don’t get along with each other – and then ends up with something very different, the multiverse and the nature of our existence. Eventually, I talked to some people I’ve read because of me, whose experiences are different from what I have with the material.
No one doesn’t like this book (really really done), but it surprised me with the way it frolicked the experiment, which wasn’t something some of my friends really noticed. It’s all in my mind as I read Rainey’s new book There is no time like thisa time travel story is based primarily on a group of stereotypical aging sci-fi fans who sometimes become the famous stereotype of the unpleasant comic “The Guy Stereo” The Simpsons. I want to know how Rainey will follow up Why don’t you love me?the answer is a story that feels simpler, despite arguably the toughest genre material in time travel.
But that’s it There is no time like this for me. Rainey’s Multiverse Book feels he’s very experimental, and his new time travel book touches it in ordinary wonderful science fiction. This is about the life of three characters, whose meaning is made by Dr. Who And wait Star Wars Piracy to arrive in mail. They are not particularly noteworthy. So when humans discover time travel, the biggest impact that seems to have on our clues is whether they should watch TV shows from the future or stick to substances when they are aired.
To me, it’s like a new way to travel stories. There is no familiar metaphor for most of the book, and the reality is not rewrite since people from the past are in trouble. No one returns to our roles in time to avoid serious disasters (they can all search and understand the results of their lives). We are experiencing a world affected by global time travel, which is normalists for the average person, those who are a little dull and at best toxic nerds. They have no good relationships with women or parents or even with each other. As this progresses, the effects of time travel gently rotate around them, as time travel may be in your or my life.
It’s almost a familiar feeling, and over the past 15 years, so much technology has gone from novel to normal, from theory to corporate and ordinary and monetized ways. Renney also thought deeply about everything. This technology invented new terms, there were new technologies to support the technology, with different attitudes toward its use, and ultimately there were government regulations, which we also think played a role in the lives of ordinary people in interesting ways.
Although it does not neatly break down into equal parts, the book’s narrative is broken down into three different parts. In the first part, we learn about our characters, their relationships, and how time travel exists…mostly without affecting them. There is a big time jump, and the second part, we see most of the same actors in our later lives. Then there’s the third part, we catch up with a character have Completely trapped in a dreamy life and living a life that can only be achieved by embracing time travel and everything it provides.
Rainey is a great storyteller who tells the story throughout the process and renders it in a way that is almost forced to read. There are mysteries and recurring themes/jokes and very unique characters. It’s a long book, but I read it very quickly and need to know where this is and everything goes together. If you like Why don’t you love me?especially when you have a sense of humor and the most introspective moments about relationships, you almost certainly like this book, too. Rainey makes science fiction, life science fiction, or whatever you want to call it. Although there is a third act, we can achieve speed with more traditional time travel stories in this world, which is fun.
Back to the recommendation question: I will recommend this book as widely as I do Why don’t you love me? I’m not sure. I think this is a great read, if you end up at around 00s before your sci-fi/fantasy fanatic experience, you’re more likely to absolutely like There is no time like this. I found it to be dark and fun, thoughtful and ultimately frustrating.
But I also think the cast here is different, and many themes mean the book doesn’t fit completely neatly. This is not necessarily a bad thing. I don’t mind, but some of the character arcs here are a bit messy. Finally, I obviously recommend the book, but I will understand if some of the readers’ parts are not completely landed. A lot of topic choices were made, a lot of ideas were introduced, and not everyone felt clearly addressed. I think it’s just the essence of time travel, even if you do your best to root it in familiar and ordinary people.
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