This book of short stories is an adult title with crossover appeal to teens. Yang shows us here that he has a taste for the strange. In these three stories Yang has taken a person's reality and turned it into a fantasy or turned their fantasy into reality, making for stories that end with the infamous twist. I enjoyed all three very much; they were each enjoyable and unusual, as well as making one think about the good or bad consequences of living in a fantasy world and avoiding your own reality. The illustrations are all wonderful. Kim has used different styles for each story to match the theme and mood. The second story has actually been done in the style of an old comic book (one of those "Gold Key" comics from the seventies) complete with fake ads. Very well done book. Recommended. ( )

Pays homage to cartooning -- particularly Gran'pa Greenbax, with nods to Disney and his Scrooge McDuck plus Daddy Warbucks -- while engaging in an intricate exploration of the intersections of dreams and reality.

Each of the three stories in the book employs a different visual style, yet each revolves around the use of fantasy as a door out of -- and back into -- an unbearable world.

Remarkably free of sentimentality and rich in intellectual content, it employs many of the tropes of fiction to make something wholly original. ( )

This joint effort between two of the most promising Asian-American graphic novelists presents a series of three thematically related, extremely 'tight' stories. The art and the storylines are rich and complex, and the implications of their social commentary are troubling and affecting. ( )

Three short stories by Gene Luen Yand and Derek Kirk Kim. The first is the fantasy of a teenager. The second tells of a frog named granpa greenbax who is fixated on collecting gold. The last story is of a quiet young lady who forms an e-mail correspondence with a man claiming to be a Nigerian prince. ( )

Enjoyed these three seemingly unrelated stories. I'd make the argument that they are related because they all deal with how one perceives reality. Artwork is lovely. ( )