Seriously though, this looks really interesting, and possibly just the sort of thing I’ve been looking for as an all-round introduction to the underlying foundations of comics. I love comic books and there are several authors I’ve picked up on in a major way who I now read fervently. On the whole though, I feel similarly about the world of comics as I once did about classical music: with such a gigantic and diverse ocean of material out there, jumping in at random and splashing around in any old direction is hugely rewarding, but I can’t help feeling I’d enjoy strapping on some kind of theoretical water wings to help me doggy-paddle along on a slightly more deliberate tangent. And this book might just do that, by the looks of it. Splish splash.