"Daniel Clowes continues to plot a lofty, lonely course through the subconscious of popular culture with this hilariously bleak graphic novel." –TIME Best of 2011
"48 pages densely packed with art, dialogue and ideas,
The Death-Ray [is] supersaturated, a story delivered directly into your imagination..." –
NPR "Clowes once again shows he is a master of current-day absurdity – with heart." –
USA Today "
The Death-Ray reads as a cautionary parable and an acidic rumination on the travails of adolescence . . . Clowes demonstrates what the comic book can do and literary fiction can't. " –
The Observer