DANIEL CLOWES
The fan-favorite Eisner Award-winning story, originally serialized in The New York Times Magazine, now collected and with forty pages of new material.
Meet Marshall. Sitting alone in the local coffee place. Hes been set up by his friend Tim on a blind date with someone named Natalie, and now hes just feeling set up. Shes nine minutes late and counting. Who was he kidding anyway? Divorced, middle-aged, newly unemployed, with next to no prospects, Marshall isnt exactly what youd call a catch. Twenty minutes pass.
A half hour. Marshall orders a scotch. (He wasnt going to drink!) Forty minutes.
Then, after nearly an hour, when hes long since given up hope, Natalie appearsbreathless, apologizing profusely that she went to the wrong place. She takes a seat, to Marshalls utter amazement.
Shes too good to be true: attractive, young, intelligent, and she seems to be seriously engaged with what Marshall has to say. There has to be a catch.
And, of course, there is.
During the extremely long night that follows, Marshall and Natalie are emotionally tested in ways that two people who just met really should not be. Not, at least, if they want the prospect of a second date.
A captivating, bittersweet, and hilarious look at the potential for human connection in an increasingly hopeless world, Mister Wonderful more than lives up to its name.
