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A couple struggles through their unhappy marriage in this dark science-fiction comedy. Claire and Mark are in the doldrums of an unhappy marriage. She doesn t get out of her bathrobe and chain-smokes while slumped on the couch. Mark has lost track of the days and can t get the kids to school on time. They ve lost interest in family and order-in pizza and chinese food every night. Mark sleeps on the couch and has trouble remembering his son s name. He feels like a fraud at work but somehow succeeds. Claire stalks an ex-boyfriend. How could he have left her to this life? Claire and Mark are both plagued by the idea that this is all a dream. Didn t they have different lives? When reports of an imminent nuclear war come on the radio, the truth begins to dawn on them: this is not the life they chose. Why Don t You Love Me? is a pitch-black comedy about marriage, alcoholism, depression, and mourning lost opportunities. Paul B. Rainey has created a hilariously terrifying alternate reality where confusion and pain might lead people to make bad choices but also eventually freedom maybe.

If time travel existed, would you right societal wrongs or just watch future episodes of Doctor Who? Paul B. Rainey s There s No Time Like the Present continues to upend grand science fiction gestures with a deep desire to understand the emotional lives of the common man (nerd). It s a simple conceit: time travel is only possible between the invention of the necessary, functioning machinery and the day those machines are shut off. In that finite sliver of space-time, humanity schisms into those who defiantly refuse to look into the future, and those who reap the benefits of doing so. After all, what would you do if you accidentally found out for certain that you would still be working the same dead end job at the age of 70? What would you do if you could read every future issue of your favorite comic? Or if you traveled back in time and couldn t afford to travel back? Would your life actually be that different? Can we admit that there might not be such a thing as free will? Is life just a series of denials of reality? Why does that one guy have horns? There s No Time Like The Present proves the success of Why Don't You Love Me? was no fluke, and is yet another brilliant graphic novel by a modern master.

A family gets lost in the shuffle of reimagining their lives in this dark, domestic sci-fi comedy. Claire and Mark are stuck in the doldrums of an unhappy marriage. She chain-smokes and refuses to leave the house or even change out of her bathrobe. He sleeps on the couch and can t distinguish one day from the next. With all love lost for family life, pizza and Chinese food take turns on a nightly take-out dinner menu. Husband and wife are plagued by the idea that this is all a dream. Why can t Mark ever remember their son s name? Isn t he a barber? Doesn t he play in a band? Why is Claire obsessively stalking her ex-boyfriend online? When exactly did she stop caring about what the kids wear to school? And just why can t she be bothered to tell the other mums at pick-up apart? Didn t Claire and Mark have different lives? As reports of an imminent nuclear war make subtle waves on the radio, the truth begins to dawn on them Paul B. Rainey s critically-acclaimed sleeper hit returns in supple paperback with an all-new cover. Why Don t You Love Me? is a hilariously terrifying meditation on mourning lost opportunities, rolling with the punches, and confronting reality as it turns on you one day at a time. Rainey's tightly plotted relationship drama shifts into a science-fiction mindblower and keeps you surprised until the final heartbreaking panel.

A memoir of British middle school bullying and one precocious comic nerd's fight to make it through while remaining as invisible as possible. Paul B. Rainey takes a look back at his middle school education and the indignities suffered--a mix of stalled friendships, pitched battles with martinets, and exasperated pleading with intractable parents. Playground games take on outsized importance as Paul and his friends seek respite from a particularly abusive science teacher. Paul jockeys to hold his place in the complicated hierarchy of school bullying. Rainey takes a classic "school daze" tale--both wistful and hilarious--and manages to turn it on its head with a couple of his now famous twists. Find out the truth behind The Murder School and the effect it's had on Rainey well into middle-age.