David Boring Noel Franklin Katie Fricas 5The Riverbed

5The Riverbed

as a miracle potion offering eternal youth goes off the rails: it continues to work even after death

and is promptly warned that if he heads back to Earth

soaking out the zone

David Boring Noel Franklin Katie Fricas 5The RiverbedBy Daniel Clowes. Published by Jonathan Cape. Softcover, 136 pages, B&W, 2002 The hilariously funny graphic novel (Time) from the highly acclaimed author of Ghost World and Patience tells the story of David Boring, a nineteen year old security guard with a tortured inner life and an obsessive nature, who is about to meet the girl of his dreams. Things go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is. And what seems truest in Boring's life is