Revealing and witty, even when mired in darkness. – Publishers Weekly
Recidivist is reminiscent of work by underground cartoonist Chester Brown, with that nightmarish quality that's also extremely funny if it's viewed in a certain way... – Onion AV Club
Zak Sally grabs you by the eyes and drags you headlong into a vision of earnest struggle and serial revelation. – Jim Woodring
There will always be some whose own version of life, whose own personalities, don't lend themselves to mainstream tastes. Here's where we find a man like Zak Sally. – National Post
Recidivist is dark, complex, fugue-like– unlike so many other books, it both demands and rewards rereading. This is an eloquent step forward for the graphic novel. – Rain Taxi
Smart and elegant and breathtaking, a comic that forces you to engage with it but rewards you with its tightrope act as the reading experience and the content cohere into a breathtaking whole. – Chris Mautner, CBR
He has discovered the pleasures of irrelevance at last; you are free to do whatever you want. To slip behind people and catch them off guard... ...The results are in your hands. Everything is squared away. – The Comics Journal