![]() How Doug ended up in this condition, and the meaning of his ongoing dream, are the mysteries that power the entire novel. It is only pages later that he is identified as Doug, a twenty-something who lies in a suburban basement with his head bandaged, addicted to pain pills and unable to leave the house. The reader gradually realizes that the man is actually asleep and caught in the unfurling logic of a dream. ![]() “This is the only part I’ll remember,” he thinks cryptically, “The part where I wake and don’t know where I am.” He then follows a cat through a hole in the wall and emerges from it into a labyrinthine Casbah. Charles Burns’ magisterial graphic novel Last Look opens with a young man waking from sleep in a windowless basement. ![]()
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