and Darren White's beautifully controlled 'The Playwright', illustrated by Eddie Campbell, which is quietly hysterical with its measured primness over a seedy heart, as the over-the-hill, obsessive outsider struggles to maintain his composure under a barrage of lust. In the park, his eyes catch a bra-less jogger approaching, and he fixates on her bobbling breasts: "In the same way, the playwright always derived an almost perverse sense of relief whenever he received news that an old friend had developed prostate cancer. Because statistically speaking, he reasoned such news significantly reduced the danger of him being similarly afflicted. And to be honest, at his age his prostate needed all the statistical support he could muster." Read Full Review
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