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by Jason After books that have ranged from tragedy, to drama, to thriller melodrama, Jason unleashes a big collection of hilarious shorter pieces. God, the Devil, mummies, vampires, zombies, werewolves, reanimated skeletons, space invaders, Death, cavemen, Godzilla and Elvis populate these most-often wordless blackout gags, side by side with Jason's usual Little Orphan Annie-eyed, rabbit-and-bird-head protagonists.

What if we lived in a world where ‘murderer for hire’ was as legal and commonplace a profession as doctor or engineer? What if a scientist hired one of these assassins for the most amazing hit of his career…to go back in time and kill Adolf Hitler before his evil rise to power? And what if Hitler managed to survive that assassination attempt, steal the time machine, sneak back to the 21st century…leaving the would be killer stranded 70 years ago? If you think you can guess the answers to any of these questions…you’re wrong. And you need to read this graphic novel, the amazing deadpan masterpiece from mighty Jason.

2002 Harvey Award Winner, Best New Talent: this superbly evocative story by the award-winning Norwegian cartoonist is a tale of childhood friendship and tragedy, and the terrible lingering aftereffects thereof. One of Europe's most exciting young cartoonists makes his American debut. This superbly evocative graphic novella by the award-winning Norwegian cartoonist Jason (his first appearance in the English language) starts off as a melancholy childhood memoir and then, with a shocking twist midway through, becomes the summary of lives lived, wasted, and lost. Like Art Spiegelman did with Maus , Jason utilizes anthropomorphic stylizations to reach deeper, more general truths, and to create elegantly minimalist panels whose emotional depth-charge comes as an even greater shock. His sparse dialogue, dark wit, and supremely bold use of "jump-cuts" from one scene to the next (sometimes spanning a number of years) make Hey, Wait... one of the most surprising and engaging debuts of the year. Black-and-white comics throughout