Reset #4
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Publisher Description
With the Reset project's implementers, lab assistants, and bigwigs all seeming to run amuck in chaos and confusion, Guy Krause is—for once in his life—the man with the plan, by comparison. And his plan? Get the girl, of course! Has being a guinea pig for science really changed Guy all that much? And will his final, horrible moments strapped in the Reset machine break him or totally reinforce his new outlook on life? Peter Bagge, the creator of the acclaimed Hate and Apocalypse Nerd comics, returns with an offbeat, hilarious new series that asks the question "If you could relive your life, would you make a BIGGER mess of it?"
*From multiple Harvey and Eagle Award winner Peter Bagge! .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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.
