Goes Like This

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 (Red Ink). 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