Annual #1 reaches for some very lofty goals, and only in one instance does it succeed. I commend Joe Casey for attempting this endeavor, as it truly seemed gargantuan just content wise. However, I feel this would be better suited as a tighter more focused book. Maybe if it combined just "Modern Romance" and possibly, "The Nightmare Bandit" and focused more on them, using this maybe the essays could have been better used as buffers as well. Even then, I don't think I could call this anthology a success as it fails to meet even Casey's own goal for the majority of its page count: It's just not that personal or good. Read Full Review
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