A review by ponycanyon
Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw

4.0

I'm usually resistant to more "cartoony"-style comic art, preferring material that looks studied and labored-over, but I didn't find Shaw's art to be an impediment to the story. If anything, the simple style speeds the narrative along. Even though it's a billion pages long, it's a one-sitting read and feels more like you just read a few minicomics than a big ol' brick of a book. Sadly, this extends to the narrative - not a whole hell of a lot actually happens. And while I really liked it, I don't really understand the huge critical reception/hype that it's enjoyed; there are single-issue floppies that I thought were better this year, and it would probably be in the upper-teens in a top-20 2008 comics list for me.