Reset #1
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Publisher Description
If you could relive major events in your life, would you take a stab at making things better—and would your best attempts only make things worse? Or would you use your second chance to put your most twisted, perverted fantasies in motion? These are questions washed-up actor and comedian Guy Krause asks himself after he signs up to be the main research subject for a virtual-reality experiment.
• Relive your life until it REALLY hurts!
• From multiple Harvey and Eagle Award winner Peter Bagge (Hate)!.
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By the time we meet him, comedian and actor Guy Krause has done a stellar job of torpedoing his personal life while wrecking his career. With only dismal prospects in front of him, the abrasive entertainer agrees to serve as the guinea pig in an experimental Virtual Reality program that will allow him to relive various pivotal events in his life. Two stories play out in parallel; the researchers, set on pioneering a new interrogation method for America's alphabet soup security agencies, fumble their way through a tale made up of equal parts ominous conspiracy and hilarious ineptitude; meanwhile Guy, unlikable and self-destructive, embraces the opportunity to escape the trap his life has become and by so doing transcend the negative persona he has created for himself. Bagge's art, seemingly comedic but quite deliberate, presents the reader with figures who are awkward and repellent but the story itself has considerable sympathy for its characters, from self-sabotaging Guy to the cohort of ambitious but flawed researchers. Bagge takes what would in other hands have ended as yet another conspiratorial thriller and turns it into a strangely hopeful tale.
