Silly without being juvenile, dark without being edgy or mean-spirited, poignant without being emotionally manipulative. I've always been drawn to how Beany Tuesday's comics have a wonderfully distinct voice that feels "genuine" - the product of his creative style as opposed to some sort of forced gimmick I feel like a lot of artists employ (consciously or not) to try to mark themselves amongst the sea of noise of web comics. This voice carries over to his prose without missing a beat - you could remove the illustrations and release this anonymously and within a few pages I'd at the very least have a nagging hunch that this was in fact a Beany Tuesday work. I sincerely hope anyone on the fence gives it a shot, both from an altruistic angle of "I think you'll love it" and from a selfish angle of "I hope it motivates Beany Tuesday to write more".