This first collected volume of Ba and Fraction's Casanova is truly great stuff, and delivers a pure blast of comics fun that is packaged with considerable wit and charm. If Gabriel Ba's three-color artwork is stunning (and it is), then Matt Fraction's convoluted, contradictory story is almost as good, making up for everything it lacks in coherence with a surfeit of boldness - there is nothing passive about Casanova. ( )

I always feel I should be confused when I read espionage and superspy stories. And the time-snaking Casanova, the transcending three-squashed-headed ladies, and the sister to screw and her bad boss, too, are, yes, confusing. But the ride is so wild, the artwork so appropriately out of sight, that I don't mind some puzzlement. You need to know Casanova is a double-crosser with daddy issues who likes to sex up the ladies and screw every boss who thinks he's working for them. It's good fun. ( )

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